Philosophy Quotes

"The impatient idealist says: Give me a place to stand and I shall move the earth. But such a place does not exist. We all have to stand on the earth itself and go with her at her pace" "Chaos is a name for any order that produces confusion in our minds" "The duty of man is the same in respect to his own nature as in respect to everything else, namely not to follow it but to amend it." "The principle itself of liberty and the Social Contract is a rights-logic applicable to all human beings without discrimination." "Actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness, wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness." "One of my favorite philosophical tenets is that people will agree with you only if they already agree with you. You do not change people’s minds" "Some scientists claim that hydrogen, because it is so plentiful, is the basic building block of the universe I dispute that I say there is more stupidity than hydrogen, and that is the basic building block of the universe" "To live doesn't mean you're alive" "The source of all the material comes from nothingness, silence, and emptiness." "He hoped and prayed that there wasn't an afterlife. Then he realized there was a contradiction involved here and merely hoped that there wasn't an afterlife." "For instance, on the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much—the wheel, New York, wars and so on—whilst all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man—for precisely the same reasons." "There is another theory which states that this has already happened." "A lot of truth is said in jest" "To be free, you had not only to escape from a rope or a chain. You had to escape from a way of thinking because freedom was not about taking off your chains." "Man is the storytelling animal."