Quotes about Philosophy

Metaphysics, the belief in the absolute as a holy power, always forms the foundation of ethics.

In nearly every religion I am aware of, there is a variation of the golden rule. And even for the non-religious, it is a tenet of people who believe in humanistic principles.

The actor is there to translate what's on the page onto the stage or the screen. So I find it important that an actor manages to actually get out of the way, vanish as a person behind the character, never to be seen or talked about again. That's my philosophy.

I am a vegetarian, and I am a staunch supporter of all things natural.

It is possible to demonstrate God's existence, although not a priori, yet a posteriori from some work of His more surely known to us.

I do not believe in the divinity of Christ, and there are many other of the postulates of the orthodox creed to which I cannot subscribe.

Jesus wept Voltaire smiled. From that divine tear and from that human smile is derived the grace of present civilization.

Oh, beauty, ever ancient and ever new.

Also, that which is desirable in itself is more desirable than what is desirable per accidens.

Most sets of values would give rise to universes that, although they might be very beautiful, would contain no one able to wonder at that beauty.

We must as second best, as people say, take the least of the evils.

Relativity applies to physics, not ethics.