Paul Feyerabend Quotes

Philosophy is for the few.

Hell must be a pretty swell spot, because the guys that invented religion have sure been trying hard to keep everybody else out.

The literary scene is a kind of Medusa’s raft, small and sinking, and one’s instinct when a newcomer tries to clamber aboard is to step on his fingers.

Obviously we're doing a comedy [Fresh Hell], and our intent is to entertain, but we're also really aware and trying to stay aware of the subtext of what it's like to reach a certain age and be dismissed, basically, from the fraternity you've always wanted to be a part of, and the desperation involved in trying to claw your way back into it.

I was trying to find my way into the music business still, but I didn't want to portray something that I wasn't. I really wanted to be just me.

Certainly one must try everything, but only to become more certain what God's way is.

I'm not sure what I'm trying to say, it could be that I've lost my way.

Because things like this you can only ssay once. And you either get it wrong or right, it's the end either way, because it's too hard to ever try to say again.

Let us affirm what seems to be the truth, that, whether one is or is not, one and the others in relation to themselves and one another, all of them, in every way, are and are not, and appear to be and appear not to be.

Every message of despair is the statement of a situation from which everybody must freely try to find a way out.

Trying to force something is the best way to stop it happening.

I try to live in such a way that nothing gets bigger than my awareness of God presence on my life.

I was never asked to join the Editorial Cartoonists Of America. No fraternity would have me in college, either. I think they know something.

No matter what you do, no matter how hard you try, you're screwed because it's all fixed and rigged. There is a club and you ain't in it.

Throughout life, people will try to shake your faith in yourself. When this happens, remind yourself that the only way they can succeed is if you allow it. When you walk down the street of life, always hold your head high and keep walking. Don't ever let anyone shake your faith in yourself, because that's really all that you have.

The best way to solve a problem? Try explaining it to somebody outside your field.

I try very hard to be fair, and I look for ironies. In a way, I live on ironies as a novelist.

There is a Sufi trend, a madhabi Sufi trend, and I don't have any problem with this. What is not acceptable is that, first, some scholars are trying to show to the audience that they are open to other trends. However, when it comes to the retreat or the panels, they don't want to be with some of us because they are scared of being exposed.

I'd address his way of trying to discourage Ian later. After all, he could have come up with something other than saying I was a whiny, smelly, trumpet-snoring bad lay.

It is easier going out of the way when we are in, than going in when we are out.

You just try to find something that interests you, and particular something that interests you that's gonna consume you the way that these big movies just really eat you up.

When trying to explain anything, I usually find that the Bible, that great collection of magnificent and varied poetry, has said it before in the best possible way.

I think there's a lot to be learned from pop culture. But at the same time I see the dangers of using it in an exclusive way to construct meaning in your life.

In philosophy, when we make use of false principles, we depart the farther from the knowledge of truth and wisdom exactly in proportion to the care with which we cultivate them, and apply ourselves to the deduction of diverse consequences from them, thinking that we are philosophizing well, while we are only departing the farther from the truth; from which it must be inferred that they who have learned the least of all that has been hitherto distinguished by the name of philosophy are the most fitted for the apprehension of truth.

I have always believed that the only way to cope with a cash crisis is not to contract but to try to expand out of it.