Philosophy & Thought: Deep Quotes

"I secretly think reality exists so we can speculate about it"

Slavoj Zizek, Philosopher

"But in due course it became evident that not only a physical situation qua physics, but the meaning of that situation to people, was sometimes a factor, through the behavior of people, in the start of a fire"

Benjamin Whorf, Scientist

"The thing of which the act of perception is the perception is experienced as something not mental"

Samuel Alexander, Philosopher

"Both expectations and memories are more than mere images founded on previous experience"

Samuel Alexander, Philosopher

"It is convenient to distinguish the two kinds of experience which have thus been described, the experienc-ing and the experienc-ed, by technical words"

Samuel Alexander, Philosopher

"I am seeking for the bridge which leans from the visible to the invisible through reality"

Max Beckmann, Artist

"You can mark in desire the rising of the tide, as the appetite more and more invades the personality, appealing, as it does, not merely to the sensory side of the self, but to its ideal components as well"

Samuel Alexander, Philosopher

"Mental life is indeed practical through and through. It begins in practice and it ends in practice"

Samuel Alexander, Philosopher

"The theory of cultural bias... is the idea that a culture is based on a particular form of organization. It can't be transplanted except to another variant of that organization"

Mary Douglas, Scientist

"I really like where Tony Robbins says that we're all hypnotized to see beauty, this one specific way, and it's true"

Gwyneth Paltrow, Actress

"What is the meaning of the togetherness of the perceiving mind, in that peculiar modification of perceiving which makes it perceive not a star but a tree, and the tree itself, is a problem for philosophy"

Samuel Alexander, Philosopher

"Such being the nature of mental life, the business of psychology is primarily to describe in detail the various forms which attention or conation assumes upon the different levels of that life"

Samuel Alexander, Philosopher

"Silence and solitude are more distracting to me than chatter and commotion"

Marilu Henner, Actress

"Practically everything from hairstyles to lifestyles is endorsed as some sort of drug to be taken, now for instant relief"

Benjamin Hoff, Author

"I am convinced that living in an enclave shapes the personality, and living alone shapes the personality too"

Mary Douglas, Scientist

"What we imagine is order, is merely the prevailing form of chaos"

Kerry Thornley, Philosopher

"We dissect nature along lines laid down by our native language"

Benjamin Whorf, Scientist

"Most metaphysical words in Hopi are verbs, not nouns as in European languages"

Benjamin Whorf, Scientist

"At the same time, new concepts and abstractions flow into the picture, taking up the task of describing the universe without reference to such time or space - abstractions for which our language lacks adequate terms"

Benjamin Whorf, Scientist

"Would Hamlet have felt the delicious fascination of suicide if he hadn't had an audience, and lines to speak?"

Jean Genet, Dramatist

"Although, this is often used with negative connotations, I see ideology as an inherent part of culture"

Dario Fo, Playwright

"I have no words for my reality"

Max Frisch, Novelist

"I do like to live in other people's homes. I enjoy being a guest. I am an inexpensive guest. When one lives in another's home he can enter into the psychic kingdom of that person"

Jerzy Kosinski, Novelist

"This is so American, man: either make something your God and cosmos and then worship it, or else kill it"

David Foster Wallace, Writer

"What we need is hatred. From it our ideas are born"

Jean Genet, Dramatist

"Violence is a calm that disturbs you"

Jean Genet, Dramatist

"I find humans tremendously interesting"

David Brin, Author

"I am inspired by human sexuality. The act itself is mechanical and holds little interest to me"

Jerzy Kosinski, Novelist

"Everybody wants to be like everybody else"

Christopher Atkins, Actor

"We live in a very complex world"

Vinton Cerf, Inventor

"Properly speaking, history is nothing but the crimes and misfortunes of the human race"

Pierre Bayle, Philosopher

"I can understand why those primitive desert people think a camera steals their soul. It is unnatural to see yourself from the outside"

Nigella Lawson, Journalist

"I love men, not for what unites them, but for what divides them, and I want to know most of all what gnaws at their hearts"

Guillaume Apollinaire, Novelist

"There is a vast difference between how things seem from the outside and how they feel on the inside"

Nigella Lawson, Journalist

"The essential attribute of a new sense is, not the perception of external objects or influences which ordinarily do not act upon the senses, but that external causes should excite in it a new and peculiar kind of sensation different from all the sensations of our five senses"

Johannes P. Muller, Scientist

"Beauty and the devil are the same thing"

Robert Mapplethorpe, Photographer

"The unconscious mind has a habit of asserting itself in the afternoon"

Anthony Burgess, Novelist

"Readers are plentiful: thinkers are rare"

Anthony Burgess, Novelist

"In sum, thought and reflection have been rendered thoroughly pointless by the circumstances in which modern men and women live and act"

Jacques Ellul, Philosopher

"Physics investigates the essential nature of the world, and biology describes a local bump. Psychology, human psychology, describes a bump on the bump"

Willard Van Orman Quine, Philosopher

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