Philosophical Quotes - Page 20

You ask a philosopher a question and after he or she has talked for a bit, you don't understand your question any more.

Imposed philosophical morality (laws/rules) will not save the world. Only a calculated tangible plan to alter our circumstances so such actions pose no merit will stop immoral behaviour.

We're cognizant, curious beings, capable of philosophical thought, nuclear physics, repeating Nerf weapons, global consciousness, Glade air fresheners, and sentient automobiles. But we're assholes first.

Logic is not a body of doctrine, but a mirror-image of the world. Logic is transcendental.

I started philosophy looking for answers. But along the way I came to prize exploring the questions. Progress in philosophy consists, I think, in a clearer delineation of the conceptual options, not in reaching determinate conclusions.

Men's ideas are the most direct emanations of their material state.

Gay is a subculture, a slur, a set of gestures, a slang, a look, a posture, a parade, a rainbow flag, a film genre, a taste in music, a hairstyle, a marketing demographic, a bumper sticker, a political agenda and philosophical viewpoint. Gay is a pre-packaged, superficial persona-a lifestyle. It's a sexual identity that has almost nothing to do with sexuality.

I did this within a philosophical framework, and a moral and legal framework. And I have been turned into a cartoon of the greatest villain in the history of lobbying.

Only the dead have seen the end of the war.

Truth in philosophy means that concept and external reality correspond.

Anti-Semitism has no historical, political and certainly no philosophical origins. Anti-Semitism is a disease.

Whenever you're pissed off, just remember that it's better than being pissed on.

I can control my passions and emotions if I can understand their nature

Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.

The aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one.

I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark.

Spiritual intelligence is the capacity to conduct our life in such a way that it reflects deep philosophical and metaphysical understanding of reality and of ourselves discovered through personal experience during systematic spiritual pursuit.

It is quality rather than quantity that matters.

If everybody is rewarded just for being alive, you get the same sort of effect as you do when you reward every student just for being enrolled. You destroy not only education, you destroy society by giving A's to everyone. This is a philosophical consideration that bothers me very much as I sit in the United States Senate and see the great budget allocations going through.

Having power is not nearly as important as what you choose to do with it.

Whether we are aware of it or not, every act of trust carries with it a shiver of fear. A favorable situation can become dangerous. Deep down we know that life is insecure and precarious. However, if we do trust, the shiver carries with it a philosophical optimism: Life, with all its traps and horrors, is good The bet is implicit in trust itself. If we could be sure of everyone and everything, trust would have no value - like money, if it were suddenly limitless, or sunshine, if there were always fine weather, or life, if we were to live forever

Frivolity is inborn, conceit acquired by education.

Brevity is a great charm of eloquence.

Life is neither good or evil, but only a place for good and evil.

In philosophy it is always good to put a question instead of an answer to a question. For an answer to the philosophical question may easily be unfair; disposing of it by means of another question is not.