Philosophy Quotes

"Man has been endowed with reason, with the power to create, so that he can add to what he's been given. But up to now he hasn't been a creator, only a destroyer. Forests keep disappearing, rivers dry up, wild life's become extinct, the climate's ruined and the land grows poorer and uglier every day."

"Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is not something discovered: it is something molded."

"Women have a certain sexuality, and I think their bodies are beautiful, and I'm not embarrassed to explore that in a film. But there are things you get offered that are vulgar and violent - just like there's a side of me that's vulgar and violent."

"What's great about this country is that America started the tradition where the richest consumers buy essentially the same things as the poorest. You can be watching TV and see Coca-Cola, and you can know that the President drinks Coke. Liz Taylor drinks Coke, and just think, you can drink Coke, too."

"Obscenities... I think a lot of dumb people do it because they can't think of what they want to say and they're frustrated. A lot of smart people do it to pretend they aren't very smart - want to be just one of the boys."

"The most important things to say are those which often I did not think necessary for me to say - because they were too obvious."

"Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason."

"There are very honest people who do not think that they have had a bargain unless they have cheated a merchant."

"It is well for the heart to be naive and the mind not to be."

"brain, n. An apparatus with which we think that we think."

"Philosophy begins in wonder.And, at the end, when philosophic thought has done its best, the wonder remains."

"It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious."

"Theirs is not to make reply: Theirs is not to reason why: Theirs is but to do and die."

"Constitutions should consist only of general provisions; the reason is that they must necessarily be permanent, and that they cannot calculate for the possible change of things."

"Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored."

"There is but one truly serious philosophical problem, and that is suicide. Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the fundamental question of philosophy."

"The absurd has meaning only in so far as it is not agreed to."

"In order to exist, man must rebel, but rebellion must respect the limits that it discovers in itself - limits where minds meet, and in meeting, begin to exist."

"The smaller the mind the greater the conceit."

"Bronze in the mirror of the form, wine of the mind."