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Those who believe that they believe in God, but without passion in their hearts, without anguish in mind, without uncertainty, without doubt, without an element of despair even in their consolation, believe only in the God idea, not God Himself.-- Miguel de Unamuno (Spanish philosopher and writer)
A philosopher is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat which isn't there. A theologian is the one who finds it.
Linda Emery: A philosophy major? Now, what can you do with a philosophy major?
Bruce Lee: You can think deep thoughts about being unemployed. (Dragon)
Basing any to-be-correct life philosophy on one tiny alteration of your current life philosophy, that needed replacement as you've decided, is just bound to be a mistake.
I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain.-- Carol Leifer
Philosophy will clip an angel's wings.-- John Keats
Practical philosophy: The glass is neither half empty nor half full. It is twice as large as it needs to be.
Occam's eraser: The philosophical principle that even the simplest solution is bound to have something wrong with it.
Philosophy is a game with objectives and no rules. Mathematics is a game with rules and no objectives.
I must invent my own philosophical systems, or else be enslaved by other men's.-- William Blake
TP's 3rd Law: Any sufficiently advanced philosophical discourse is indistinguishable from bullshit.
-- TitanPoint
Accountant - someone who can put two and two together and make a living from it.
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.-- Frank Zappa
"Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man."-- Francais Bacon
"Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers."-- T. S. Eliot
A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry.
Hence University education.-- George Bernard Shaw
"Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language."-- Ludwig Wittgenstein
Science fiction is an existential metaphor that allows us to tell stories about the human condition. Isaac Asimov once said, "Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinded critics and philosophers of today, but the core of science fiction, its essence, has become crucial to our salvation, if we are to be saved at all." (Stargate SG-1)
Academe, n:
An ancient school where morality and philosophy were taught.
Academy, n:
[from Academe] A modern school where football is taught.-- Ambrose Bierce (The Devil's Dictionary)
"The thing that I'm into is the philosophy of the music. I love the surprise of things, the accidents--just the sound of a word, to try to express them in the best way, so that the emotion is totally revealed."-- Beth Gibbons
If most of us are ashamed of shabby clothes and shoddy furniture, let us be more ashamed of shabby ideas and shoddy philosophies.... It would be a sad situation if the wrapper were better than the meat wrapped inside it.-- Albert Einstein
"My dream job? You mean, besides marrying a millionaire and writing porno scripts for laughs? I dunno, maybe be the madam of a brothel? Could be a lot of fun."-- Amanda Firefox
I am not a Christian myself. I fact I spend considerable effort trying to debunk Christian superstition, particularly that which is used to justify killing and discriminating against gays. However, Jesus did have some interesting ideas. It's too bad Christians have given him such a bad reputation by association. Were he simply a philosopher, I think he would command greater respect generally, and more sensible respect by Christians.-- Roedy Green
The Four Food Groups: Coffee, ice cream, beer and pizza.
His philosophy was a mixture of three famous schools -- the Cynics, the Stoics and the Epicureans -- and summed up all three of them in his famous phrase, `You can't trust any bugger further than you can throw him, and there's nothing you can do about it, so let's have a drink.'-- Terry Pratchett
"The man who has no tincture of philosophy goes through life imprisoned in the prejudices derived from common sense, from the habitual beliefs of his age or nation, and from convictions which have grown up in his mind without the co-operation or consent of his deliberate reason."-- Bertrand Russell
Give me books, French wine, fruit, fine weather and a little music out of doors, played by somebody I do not know.-- John Keats
A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain.-- Robert Frost