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I stick my finger into existence.. it smells of nothing. Where am I? Who am I? What is this thing called the world? What does this word mean?

There is philosophy, which is about conceptual analysis - about the meaning of what we say - and there is all of this ... all of life.

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

The world is real. Consciousness is the illusion.

Life is but thought.

All consciousness is consciousness of something

Learning philosophy is learning a particular kind of intuitive understanding.

It is good a philosopher should remind himself, now and then, that he is a particle pontificating on infinity.

We have the notion that we exist but we have no way to prove it. 'I am' is the closest foundation we can get.

Recognition of function always precedes recognition of being.

The question of the composition of perceptible objects is one which already occupied the mind of the ancient Greeks.

Philosophy, most broadly viewed, is the critical survey of existence from the standpoint of value.

Life is a state of consciousness.

Apart from the known and the unknown, what else is there?

To live is to think.

Einstein said, if everything exists as a substance of qualities, and qualities exist only in mind, then all is mind.

At times I think and at times I am.

Initially, I studied philosophy, because it claimed to give you answers to the meaning of existence, but it didn't: It was basically a semantics game.

Philosophy is the product of wonder.

I think, therefore I am.

Human beings are not capable of creating a thought that truly conceives of this existence. Nobody knows if we are really here, alive, or anything. It's a mystery.

That's something I learned as a philosophy major: The philosophy ethos is, always question, never rest.

'Do not touch ontologically' doesn't mean 'are separated by empirically measurable hard edges.'

What's more valuable - intelligence or consciousness?

Death is the dark backing a mirror needs if we are to see anything