Quotes about Philosophy

They don't subscribe to our sense of morality; they don't believe in an afterlife; they don't believe in a God or religion. And the only morality they recognize, therefore, is what will advance the cause or socialism.

At my first press conference I was asked whether we could trust the Soviet Union, and I said that the answer to that question could be found in the writings of Soviet leaders: It had always been their philosophy that it was moral to lie or cheat for the purpose of advancing Communism.

Happiness is the greatest hiding place for despair.

Every mental act is composed of doubt and belief, but it is belief that is the positive, it is belief that sustains thought and holds the world together.

The only intelligent tactical response to life's horror is to laugh defiantly at it

Whoever has learned to be anxious in the right way has learned the ultimate.

It is quite true what Philosophy says: that Life must be understood backwards. But that makes one forget the other saying: that it must be lived—forwards. The more one ponders this, the more it comes to mean that life in the temporal existence never becomes quite intelligible, precisely because at no moment can I find complete quiet to take the backward- looking position.

I opened my eyes and saw the real world, and I began to laugh, and i haven't stopped since.

My life is absolutely meaningless. When I consider the different periods into which it falls, it seems like the word Schnur in the dictionary, which means in the first place a string, in the second, a daughter-in-law. The only thing lacking is that the word Schnur should mean in the third place a camel, in the fourth, a dust-brush.

To stand on one leg and prove God's existence is a very different thing from going on one's knees and thanking Him.

To believe is indeed to lose the understanding in order to gain God.

The supreme paradox of all thought is the attempt to discover something that thought cannot think.