Quotes About Philosophy

Love is blind, they say; sex is impervious to reason and mocks the power of all philosophers. But, in fact, a man's sexual choice is the result and the sum of his fundamental convictions. Tell me what a man finds sexually attractive and I will tell you his entire philosophy of life. Show me the woman he sleeps with and I will tell you his valuation of himself.

It's because...you see, if we had souls, which we haven't, and if our souls met--yours and mine--they'd fight to the death. But after they had torn each other to pieces, to the very bottom, they'd see that they had the same root.

I loathe your ideals because I know no worse injustice than the giving of the undeserved.

I will not die, it's the world that will end. paraphrase of unknown philosopher

To a life; which is reason unto itself.

A moment or an eternity—did it matter? Life, undefeated, existed and could exist.

To irrational principles, one cannot be loyal. Ideas that are not derived from reality cannot be consistently practiced in reality. --as quoted by Leonard Peikoff in Objectivism: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand

We didn't really have to take everything so seriously, did we?

Be ugly, be God

Tell me what a man finds sexually attractive and I will tell you his entire philosophy of life. Show me the woman he sleeps with and I will tell you his valuation of himself.

Life is a value to be bought and thinking is the only coin noble enough to buy it.

Any alleged right of one man, which necessitates the violation of the rights of another isn't and can't be a right.

That which you call your soul or spirit is your consciousness, and that which you call 'free will' is your mind's freedom to think or not, the only will you have, your only freedom, the choice that controls all the choices you make and determines your life and your character.

Politically, the goal of today's dominant trend is statism. Philosophically, the goal is the obliteration of reason; psychologically, it is the erosion of ambition.

People are not embracing collectivism because they have accepted bad economics. They are accepting bad economics because they have embraced collectivism.

That which exists possesses identity; he could keep it out of existence by refusing to identify it.

Integrity is the ability to stand by an idea. That presupposes the ability to think. Thinking is something one doesn't borrow or pawn.

But, in fact, a person's sexual choice is the result and sum of their fundamental convictions. Tell me what a person finds sexually attractive and I will tell you their entire philosophy of life.

If any part of your uncertainty is a conflict between your heart and your mind—follow your mind.

I had been opposed to the practice of dedicating books; I had held that a book is addressed to any reader who proves worthy of it.

There was nothing she could say to them--nothing would be heard or answered. What were the weapons, she thought, in a realm where reason was not a weapon any longer? It was a realm she could not enter.

The basic cause of totalitarianism is two ideas: men's rejection of reason in favor of faith, and of self-interest in favor of self-sacrifice. If

We never had to take any of it seriously, did we?' she whispered. 'No, we never had to.

It's because it makes no difference to her at all whether I speak or not; as if I didn't exist and never had existed... the thing more inconceivable than one's death--never to have been born...