I want to be remembered as a poet, a peacemaker, and a philosopher who played.
It was less a literary thing than a linguistic, philosophical preoccupation... discovering how far you can go with language to create immediate, elementary experience.
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.
Europe, in legend, has always been the home of subtle philosophical discussion; America was the land of grubby pragmatism.
I don't feel proprietorial about the problems of philosophy. History has taught us that many philosophical issues can grow up, leave home and live elsewhere.
Systematic philosophical and practical anti-intellectualism such as we are witnessing appears to be something truly novel in the history of human culture.
It is good a philosopher should remind himself, now and then, that he is a particle pontificating on infinity.
It is difficult to obtain the friendship of a cat. It is a philosophical animal... one that does not place its affections thoughtlessly.
All sciences are now under the obligation to prepare the ground for the future task of the philosopher, which is to solve the problem of value, to determine the true hierarchy of values.
I've been very fortunate and met the guys that have become, basically, philosophers and have a kind of sensibility about life that's very precious.
Testimony should be a philosophical problem and not limited to legal or historical contexts where it refers to the account of a witness who reports what he has seen.
To the extent that philosophical positions both confuse us and close doors to further inquiry, they are likely to be wrong.
The sense of historical continuity, and a feeling for philosophical rectitude cannot, however, be compromised.
If you know how to spend less than you get, you have the philosopher's stone.
The point of a philosophical spirit is to rely primarily upon one's own thinking.
The basic drive behind real philosophy is curiosity about the world, not interest in the writings of philosophers.
Remember, philosophically speaking, Americans are mongrels —practical materialists but with a dreamy streak of divine approval.
I'm not from a milieu where high-register language or philosophical ideas were welcome.
Nature is a book, a letter, a fairy tale (in the philosophical sense) or whatever you want to call it.
I'm no romantic, surfing, California boy. I like reading, writing, philosophizing. Scheming. I've been doing some exploration of the inner space.
The man of science, the artist, the philosopher are attached to their nations as much as the day-laborer and the merchant.
