Quotes About Philosophy

Language is the house of the truth of Being.

What I question about the afterlife is how many people just accept it and don't question it, because I think living for an eternity would be much worse than dying.

Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.

The human being is not the lord of beings, but the shepherd of Being.

How we think about the future and the past determines everything about how we think about our situation as human beings.

I do believe as human beings we are a great mass of contradictions.

I think it's a part of us as human beings that we search outside of ourselves for meaning.

I believe L. Ron Hubbard resolved the human mind, and in resolving it he has also resolved human pain - that's what I really think has happened here.

Mencius said that human nature is good. I disagree with that.

If there were no human nature, then there would be nothing for deliberate effort to be applied to. If there were no deliberate effort, then human nature would not be able to beautify itself.

I think human nature is eternal and constant.

In the ancient world and, above all, among the Greeks, human nature was held in high esteem.

I believe that any auteur categorised in terms of an -ist or an -ism wouldn't be able to capture the complex essence of human nature.

Post-modernism is dead because it didn't address human needs.

We human beings are humane in part because we can look beyond our biology.

One hates to be absolute, but in my view, there is no such thing as humane meat.

Confucius was a humanist and an agnostic.

I am a humanist not a feminist. There's a big difference.

As a citizen, hopefully I'm humanist. As an artist, I'm free.

I think I'm more of an absurdist than a satirist. I think I'm more of a - humanist? I hate to say it!

If we do not know what humor is, that may be because we do not know what humankind is.

Of all living things, only humans consciously anticipate death; the consequent need to choose how to behave in its face - to worry about how to die - distinguishes us from other animals. The need to manage death is the particular lot of humanity.

I want to convince you that humans are, to some extent, natural born essentialists. What I mean by this is we don't just respond to things as we see them or feel them or hear them. Rather, our response is conditioned on our beliefs, about what they really are, what they came from, what they're made of, what their hidden nature is.

It is characteristic of all deep human problems that they are not to be approached without some humor and some bewilderment.