Our society is the product of several great religious and philosophical traditions. The ideas of the Greeks and Romans, Christianity, Judaism, humanism and the Enlightenment have made us who we are.
As long as I have the talent and there's a demand for the old Chinese man - whether he's a philosopher, or a master, or an old-time restaurant owner, or a villain, or a so-called good guy - I will always be working.
'Truth Will Set U Free' is about honesty. My philosophic belief that ultimately being true to yourself is liberating, with every individual's inalienable right to be who they are without fear or recrimination.
I fear that, in the end, the famous debate among materialists, idealists, and dualists amounts to a merely verbal dispute that is more a matter for the linguist than for the speculative philosopher.
Like the philosopher, the author views his task as one of establishing a clear connection between life and history, and of making the past bear fruit for the present and future.
I'm most impressed by the Russian writers, so I love reading the works of Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky. Another author who has informed the way I think is the French philosopher, Blaise Pascal.
Anyway, there is a lot of really interesting work going on in the neuroscience and psychology of consciousness, and I would love to see philosophers become more closely involved with this.
Some of us are philosophers, some are artists, some are rulers and some are some-others. But, we all are makers and proud labors.
The philosopher is a person who refuses no pleasures which do not produce greater sorrows, and who knows how to create new ones.
From my undergraduate days, I've always been interested in the major philosophical questions that don't seem to have an answer that everyone agrees on.
Philosophers, as things now stand, are all too fond of offering criticism from on high instead of studying and understanding things from within.
Now that we do not have priests and philosophers any more, artists are the most important people in the world.
For centuries many of the world's distinguished philosophers have assaulted Christianity as being irrational, superstitious and absurd.
I am not a philosopher but a friend, who, with great love and care, wants to share his thoughts.
Both Brutus and Hamlet are highly intellectual by nature and reflective by habit. Both may even be called, in a popular sense, philosophic; Brutus may be called so in a stricter sense.
I didn't have a philosophical understanding of music until I came to New York. I didn't understand how it applied to my kind and my generation. I thought it was just old people talking.
Riggan: [as Birdman] People, they love blood. They love action. Not this talky, depressing, philosophical bullshit.
First would be the literary side, then the spiritual and philosophical. The political side is required principally because of the necessity of the current Russian position.
The foregoing considerations lead us to the very important conclusion, that matter is essentially force, and nothing but force; that matter, as popularly understood, does not exist, and is, in fact, philosophically inconceivable.
My own attitude to the innumerable injustices of life has always been a philosophical one, especially when they have tended to operate in my favour.
Philosophers, for example, often fail to recognize that their remarks about the universe apply also to themselves and their remarks. If the universe is meaningless, so is the statement that it is so.
