Philosophy Quotes

"I do think Austin is a great town for writers; we have a lot of them here. But I grew up in Austin, and so I didn't move here because it was a creative mecca; I was just lucky to live here."

"My thought is me: that is why I cannot stop thinking. I exist because I think I cannot keep from thinking."

"Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance."

"I think it's great if a guy has a good sized package."

"I think the whole tension about romanticism is the way it builds and builds, and the moment it's consummated, the tension's over."

"There is something so amiable in the prejudices of a young mind, that one is sorry to see them give way to the reception of more general opinions."

"Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves; vanity, to what we would have others think of us."

"The mind can weave itself warmly in the cocoon of its own thoughts, and dwell a hermit anywhere."

"True scholarship consists in knowing not what things exist, but what they mean; it is not memory but judgment."

"Philosophy is common sense with big words."

"Every man who is high up likes to think that he has done it all himself, and the wife smiles and lets it go at that."

"There is no heresy or no philosophy which is so abhorrent to the church as a human being."

"Writing in English is the most ingenious torture ever devised for sins committed in previous lives. The English reading public explains the reason why."

"The reason people think it's important to be white is that they think it's important not to be black."

"The question of sexual dominance can exist only in the nightmare of that soul which has armed itself, totally, against the possibility of the changing motion of conquest and surrender, which is love."

"I love working with the right actor, and if the right actor happens to be unknown, that should be allowed, too, I think."

"I don't think I have a signature."

"You can never guess or assume what anyone is going to think."

"The only objects of practical reason are therefore those of good and evil. For by the former is meant an object necessarily desired according to a principle of reason; by the latter one necessarily shunned, also according to a principle of reason."

"I lived with a coffee farmer called Dukale on a trip I made with World Vision to Ethiopia, and realised there's no good reason for the disparity in opportunity around the world."