Philosophy & Thought: Deep Quotes

"The man who never dreams goes slowly mad"

Thomas Dolby, Musician

"The base emotions Plato banned have left a radioactive and not radiant land"

Libby Houston, Poet

"It seems to me that in our lifetime we have passed from the wreck of liberal humanism to the beginning of a new recognition of dogma: isn't it rather tremendous?"

Ruth Pitter, Musician

"We're just a bubble in a boiling pot"

Jack Johnson, Athlete

"Reality doesn't interest me"

Leni Riefenstahl, Director

"There's a lot of Doyle in me. I don't know where I begin and Doyle ends or where Doyle begins and I end"

Glenn Quinn, Actor

"He was imposing, even in his pensiveness"

George Barr McCutcheon, Novelist

"We truly have an ancient part of the brain that was about survival when we were prey, but we seem to have gone past prey. We eat everything and nothing eats us"

Nick Nolte, Actor

"Dualists hold that body and soul are separate entities and that the soul will continue beyond the existence of the physical body"

Michael Shermer, Writer

"There are those whose sole claim to profundity is the discovery of exceptions to the rules"

Paul Eldridge, Educator

"It's very easy to say that something is a shadow of itself, and it may be true in some senses"

Sydney Schanberg, Journalist

"There are more ways of outraging speech than contradiction merely"

J. L. Austin, Philosopher

"Politics as battle has given way to politics as spectacle"

Ronald Steel, Writer

"We think of our eyes as video cameras and our brains as blank tapes to be filled with sensory inputs"

Michael Shermer, Writer

"There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry"

Martin Gardner, Mathematician

"Every little job becomes a dream, and you don't recall it anymore, and maybe you might have a deja vu moment, but it's like something you dreamed earlier"

Terrence Howard, Actor

"The second principle of magic: things which have once been in contact with each other continue to act on each other at a distance after the physical contact has been severed"

James G. Frazer, Scientist

"Human history is highly nonlinear and unpredictable"

Michael Shermer, Writer

"I focused on how these people became how they were"

Luther Allison, Musician

"I have worked really hard to defy categorization, to break down a taxonomy, whenever it comes my way"

Rick Moody, Novelist

"History: the category of human phenomena which tends to catastrophe"

Jules Romains, Author

"Down below the broad, roaring waves of the sea break against the deep foundation of the rock. But high above the mountain, the sea, and the peaks of rock, the eternal ornamentation blooms silently from the dark depths of the universe"

Rudolf Otto, Theologian

"Americans are inclined to see the world and foreign affairs in black and white"

Richard Kerry, Diplomat

"I've always been struck by how unsuspicious people are in general, if you tell them what you're about"

Martin C. Smith, Writer

"Bored people, unless they sleep a lot, are cruel"

Renata Adler, Journalist

"I'm not on all the time. I like to have fun and be funny, but I'm much more of a thinker"

Keenen Ivory Wayans, Comedian

"I think we love watching people that are flawed, because we're all flawed"

Brad Garrett, Actor

"We've become a plastic society"

Bill Janklow, Politician

"What concerns me, is the general social tendency to enforce a level, above which nothing rises and stands out"

Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Musician

"We live in an epoch of denudation"

John Joly, Scientist

"I think the supernatural is a catch-all for everything we don't understand about the vast other parts of life that we cannot perceive"

William Shatner, Actor

"I'm the sort of person who keeps a lot to myself"

Patrick Rafter, Athlete

"There is no reason that the universe should be designed for our convenience"

John D. Barrow, Scientist

"One of them, for example, which will probably haunt me more than any other, is the problem of communication"

Georges Simenon, Writer

"No one could have less faith in the absolute and definitive importance of the work created by man, because I believe that this world is nothing but a dream"

Gustave Moreau, Artist

"We all have so many different elements inside of us and we're not all one thing"

Jeremy Piven, Actor

"I actually think that secrets are just a part of human nature and that everybody should have some"

Elizabeth Banks, Actress

"I don't like giving names to generations. It's like trying to read the song title on a record that's spinning"

Ian Williams, Musician

"From the wrestling of his own soul with the great enemy, comes that depth and mystery which startles us in Hamlet"

Jones Very, Poet

"I am not a philosopher"

Hans Bethe, Scientist

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