philosophy Quotes

Few people have the imagination for reality.

The good is the beautiful.

I think a fundamentalist is somebody who believes something unshakably and isn't going to change their mind.

I was never much bothered about moral questions like, 'How could there be a good God when there's so much evil in the world?'

'What is the purpose of the universe?' is a silly question.

I decided to teach because I think that any person who studies philosophy has to be involved actively.

Men should be either treated generously or destroyed, because they take revenge for slight injuries - for heavy ones they cannot.

I'm trying to make order out of chaos, trying to find some way of rationalising the horrific things that people do or the way the world is.

Music is the melody whose text is the world.

Obstinacy is the result of the will forcing itself into the place of the intellect.