Philosophy Quotes - Page 90

Time is an ocean, but it ends at the shore.

Black and white is how it should be, but shades of grey are the colors I see.

(on A History of Western Philosophy) I was sometimes accused by reviewers of writing not a true history but a biased account of the events that I arbitrarily chose to write of. But to my mind, a man without a bias cannot write interesting history - if, indeed, such man exists.

My studies in Speculative philosophy, metaphysics, and science are all summed up in the image of a mouse called man running in and out of every hole in the Cosmos hunting for the Absolute Cheese.

I do not presume that I have found the best philosophy, I know that I understand the true philosophy.

An inventor is a man who asks 'Why?' of the universe and lets nothing stand between the answer and his mind.

Science was born as a result and consequence of philosophy; it cannot survive without a philosophical base. If philosophy perishes, science will be next to go.

I know not if this earth on which I stand is the core of the universe or if it is but a speck of dust lost in eternity. I know not and I care not. For I know what happiness is possible to me on earth. And my happiness needs no higher aim to vindicate it. My happiness is not the means to any end. It is the end. It is its own goal. It is its own purpose.

Since religion is a primitive form of philosophy — an attempt to offer a comprehensive view of reality — many of its myths are distorted, dramatized allegories based on some element of truth, some actual, if profoundly elusive, aspect of man's existence.

It is the courage to make a clean breast of it in the face of every question that makes the philosopher. He must be like Sophocles' Oedipus, who, seeking enlightenment concerning his terrible fate, pursues his indefatigable inquiry even though he divines that appalling horror awaits him in the answer. But most of us carry with us the Jocasta in our hearts, who begs Oedipus, for God's sake, not to inquire further.

It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.

I'm in love with a philosophy major, and she doesn't even know I exist. And what's worse, she can prove it.

Life in the true sense is perceiving or thinking.

When I break any of the chains that bind me I feel that I make myself smaller.

My philosophy is fundamentally sad, but I'm not a sad man, and I don't believe I sadden anyone else.

I am interested in study, reflection, philosophy - but always as a dilettante. I also consider myself a dilettante as a painter.

My philosophy is: It's none of my business what people say of me and think of me.

I'm the color me happy girl, Miss live and let live. And when they're out for blood, I always give.

Immoral: Inexpedient. Whatever in the long run and with regard to the greater number of instances men find to be generally inexpedient comes to be considered wrong, wicked, immoral. If mans notions of right and wrong have any other basis than this of expediency; if they originated, or could have originated, in any other way; if actions have in themselves a moral character apart from and nowise dependent on, their consequences-then all philosophy is a lie and reason a disorder of the mind.

I think I can define my entire life, virtuosity and business philosophy down to the core fundamental that I absolutely hate being told what to do. But like any artist or any human being out there, I desperately want to be loved, and I spend my entire life trying to balance those two facts.

Plato says a multitude can never philosophize and hence can never recognize the seriousness of philosophy or who really philosophizes. Attempting to influence the multitude results in forced prostitution.

How many lives we live in one, And how much less than one, in all.

I am a misanthrope and yet utterly benevolent, have more than one screw loose yet am a super-idealist who digests philosophy more efficiently than food.

Different ‘philosophies’ represent nothing but methods of evaluation, which may lead to empirical mis-evaluation if science and empirical facts are disregarded.

Thou wert my guide, philosopher, and friend.