Philosophy & Thought: Deep Quotes

"I believe people can move things with their minds"

Justin Timberlake, Musician

"Psychologically experienced consciousness is therefore no longer pure consciousness; construed objectively in this way, consciousness itself becomes something transcendent, becomes an event in that spatial world which appears, by virtue of consciousness, to be transcendent"

Edmund Husserl, Philosopher

"Words signify man's refusal to accept the world as it is"

Herbert Kaufman, Writer

"It's too hard for me to comment on the sorry state of our culture"

Trevor Dunn, Musician

"It just is nothing foreign to consciousness at all that could present itself to consciousness through the mediation of phenomena different from the liking itself; to like is intrinsically to be conscious"

Edmund Husserl, Philosopher

"At the lowest cognitive level, they are processes of experiencing, or, to speak more generally, processes of intuiting that grasp the object in the original"

Edmund Husserl, Philosopher

"I think people have to choose between living with contradictions or painting themselves into a corner. I have a lot of contradictions"

Michelle Shocked, Musician

"Neither facts nor pictures seem to sink into our centers of feeling any more"

Robert Welch, Writer

"I've always been fascinated by the operation of memory - the way in which it is not linear but fragmented, and its ambivalence"

Penelope Lively, Author

"This creed of the desert seemed inexpressible in words, and indeed in thought"

T. E. Lawrence, Archaeologist

"We are never the same with others as when we are alone. We are different, even when we are in the dark with them"

Maurice Maeterlinck, Dramatist

"Like everybody, I have many different sides"

Juliette Lewis, Actress

"The life history of the individual is first and foremost an accommodation to the patterns and standards traditionally handed down in his community"

Ruth Benedict, Scientist

"I think perhaps the most important problem is that we are trying to understand the fundamental workings of the universe via a language devised for telling one another when the best fruit is"

Terry Prachett, Author

"If there is a sense of reality, there must also be a sense of possibility"

Robert Musil, Writer

"I've always felt that sexuality is a really slippery thing. In this day and age, it tends to get categorized and labeled, and I think labels are for food. Canned food"

Michael Stipe, Musician

"Some of the evil of my tale may have been inherent in our circumstances. For years we lived anyhow with one another in the naked desert, under the indifferent heaven"

T. E. Lawrence, Archaeologist

"For me, disability is a way of getting some extremity, some kind of very difficult situation, that throws an interesting light on people"

Mark Haddon, Novelist

"It's only women who are not really quite women at all, frivolous women who have no idea, who neglect repairs"

Marguerite Duras, Novelist

"The final story, the final chapter of Western man, I believe, lies in Los Angeles"

Phil Ochs, Musician

"We may get to the point where the only way of saving the world will be for industrial civilization to collapse"

Maurice Strong, Businessman

"Europe is the unfinished negative of which America is the proof"

Mary McCarthy, Author

"For the duration of its collective life, or the time during which its identity may be assumed, each class resembles a hotel or an omnibus, always full, but always of different people"

Joseph A. Schumpeter, Economist

"It is impossible to do a thing the way I see it, because the closer I get, the more differently I see"

Alberto Giacometti, Sculptor

"You know, one of the things I like about this world, or at least I like about the way we're presenting this world, is these issues are terribly complicated - not nearly as black and white as we're led to believe"

Aaron Sorkin, Producer

"Nothing is stranger to man than his own image"

Karel Capek, Writer

"We are each but a quarter note in a grand symphony"

Guy Laliberte, Businessman

"Beneath all of these addictions is this disease, this control disease, which is the mark of our society"

Keith Miller, Author

"Unaware of the absurdity of it, we introduce our own petty household rules into the economy of the universe for which the life of generations, peoples, of entire planets, has no importance in relation to the general development"

Alexander Herzen, Journalist

"Why is it the philosopher who is expected to be easier and not some scientist who is even more inaccessible?"

Jacques Derrida, Philosopher

"We are all mediators, translators"

Jacques Derrida, Philosopher

"My job is to look at what politics is doing, not be a politician myself"

Antonio Tabucchi, Writer

"The detached observer's view is one window on the world"

Kenneth L. Pike, Sociologist

"Language is not merely a set of unrelated sounds, clauses, rules, and meanings; it is a total, coherent system of these, integrating with each other, and with behavior, context, universe of discourse, and observer perspective"

Kenneth L. Pike, Sociologist

"The universe extends beyond the mind of man, and is more complex than the small sample one can study"

Kenneth L. Pike, Sociologist

"Maybe I am not French, maybe I am from nowhere"

Alain Prost, Celebrity

"I prefer insomnia to anaesthesia"

Antonio Tabucchi, Writer

"Eco sees the intellectual as an organizer of culture, someone who can run a magazine or a museum. An administrator, in fact. I think this is a melancholy situation for an intellectual"

Antonio Tabucchi, Writer

"There is no man who desires as passionately as a Russian. If we could imprison a Russian desire beneath a fortress, that fortress would explode!"

Joseph de Maistre, Diplomat

"The circle of the return to birth can only remain open, but this is a chance, a sign of life, and a wound"

Jacques Derrida, Philosopher

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