Quotes About Philosophy

Without magic, there is no art. Without art, there is no idealism. Without idealism, there is no integrity. Without integrity, there is nothing but production.

What passes for optimism is most often the effect of an intellectual error.

What the hell, it always rains in sad love stories. And in happy ones too. Must be a reason, though perhaps not necessarily metaphysical.

The only reason - the only need - to believe in God is to try and explain where this all came from....Where we came from. Where we're headed. But it doesn't work. If there was a creator, a designed who created all this, well then there had to be a creator to create that creator, right? And one to create him. And so on.

Hope isn't real by definition, is it? It's just a state of mind....

The soul began as unquestionably real and the self ended as arguably a fiction.

Being or nothing, that is the question. Ascending, descending, coming, going, a man does so much that in the end he disappears.

When one made love to zero spheres embraced their arches and prime numbers caught their breath...

As the saying goes: time is money- so give me some money to think.

J'entends rire les morts quand on parle de dieux.

Recently, someone asked me if I believed in astrology. He seemed somewhat puzzled when I explained that the reason I don't is that I'm a Gemini.

We are accustomed to the idea that the truth of things may be neither pleasant nor comforting; we are less accustomed to the idea that the truth may be unfruitful.

Within the secular world picture, Neuromania and Darwinitis are the biggest piles of rubbish.

The point is that our difference from beasts is wall to wall, permeating every moment of our day.

Libet's experiment illustrates how the (neuro-)determinist case against freedom is based on a very distorted conception of what constitutes an action in everyday

So it is no surprise that we cannot find free will in this isolated movement in a laboratory, if we treat it as an isolated movement.

It is intentionality that tears the seamless fabric of the causally closed material world.

The lengths that post-analytical philosophers of mind have gone to in order to avoid acknowledging contents of consciousness have been extraordinary.

Trying to discover the contents of our ordinary Wednesdays in the tropisms of the evolved organism as reflected in brain activity is like applying one's ear to a seed and expecting to hear the rustling of the woods in a breeze.

As Plato: We become more worthy the more we bend our minds to the impersonal. We become better as we take in the universe, thinking more about the largeness that it is and laugh about the smallness that is us.

How can those who possess all knowledge, which must include knowledge of life that is worth living, be interested in using knowledge only for the insignificant aim of making money?

Thinking is the soul speaking to itself.

If there is such a thing as philosophical progress, then why – unlike scientific progress – is it so invisible? Philosophical progress is invisible because it is incorporated into our points of view. What was torturously secured by complex argument comes widely shared intuition, so obvious that we forget its provenance.

Rational self-interest is always what morality boils down to.