#phil

I grew up in a very old-fashioned Roman Catholic, Italian-Irish family in Philly. ↗

— Bradley Cooper

#family #grew #i #old-fashioned #philly

You're seeing me develop, not only as a filmmaker if you've seen my earlier films, but you're seeing me kind of learn how to be a human, how my philosophy has evolved. ↗

— David Cronenberg

#earlier #evolved #filmmaker #films #how

You need at least six or seven years to understand the philosophy and concentration of karate to know to clean your spirit of everything and dedicate your mind and body to the sport. ↗

— Jean Claude Van Damme

#clean #concentration #dedicate #everything #karate

There is much in this vision that will remind you of your mystics; yet between them and us there is far more difference than similarity, in respect both of the matter and the manner of our thought. For while they are confident that the cosmos is perfect, we are sure only that it is very beautiful. While they pass to their conclusion without the aid of intellect, we have used that staff every step of the way. Thus, even when in respect of conclusions we agree with your mystics rather than your plodding intellectuals, in respect of method we applaud most your intellectuals; for they scorned to deceive themselves with comfortable fantasies. ↗

— Olaf Stapledon

#religion #science #thought #beauty

Maybe philosophy - I love talking about ideas. Or maybe art history. I was thinking about psychology, then I got really afraid because everybody says it's terribly boring. ↗

— Claire Danes

#afraid #art #art history #because #boring

Don't call me a mindless philosopher, you overweight glob of grease. ↗

— Anthony Daniels

#grease #me #mindless #overweight #philosopher

Skepticism is the first step on the road to philosophy. ↗

— Denis Diderot

#first step #philosophy #road #skepticism #step

The first step towards philosophy is incredulity. ↗

— Denis Diderot

#first step #incredulity #philosophy #step #towards

As a scholar I am interested in the philosophy of language, semiotics, call it what you want, and one of the main features of the human language is the possibility of lying. ↗

— Umberto Eco

#call #features #human #human language #i

In a world of chance is there a better and a worse? We yield to a stranger's embrace or give ourselves to the waves; for the blink of an eyelid our vigilance relaxes; we are asleep; and when we awake, we have lost the direction of our lives. What are these blinks of an eyelid, against which the only defence is an eternal and inhuman wakefulness? Might they not be the cracks and chinks through which another voice, other voices, speak in our lives? By what right do we close our ears to them? (Susan Barton) ↗

— J.M. Coetzee

#others #philosophy #self-awareness #susan-barton #life