Oneohtrix Point Never Quotes

Philosophy, as the modern world knows it, is only intellectual club-swinging.

Philosophy is at once the most sublime and the most trivial of human pursuits.

What's a philosopher?' said Brutha. Someone who's bright enough to find a job with no heavy lifting,' said a voice in his head.

Philosophy, while it soothes the reason, damps the ambition.

Philosophy's work is finding the shortest path between two points.

Of the opinions of philosophy I most gladly embrace those that are most solid, that is to say, most human and most our own; my opinions, in conformity with my conduct, are low and humble.

Philosophy is the opposite of fairy tales

Philosophy begins where religion ends, just as by analogy chemistry begins where alchemy runs out, and astronomy takes the place of astrology.

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

I'd love to go back to school for philosophy. I love philosophy, so I'm always reading philosophy books, annoying my girlfriend with that type of stuff.

Every day, I read books on philosophy and science fiction and human consciousness.

Philosophy is an elegant thing, if anyone modestly meddles with it; but if they are conversant with it more than is becoming, it corrupts them.

Are you a philosopher? Where's your sponge?

My mind was formed by studying philosophy, Plato and that sort of thing.

Born and nurtured when the human being first asked questions about the reason for things and their purpose, philosophy shows in different modes and forms that the desire for truth is part of human nature itself.

It is precisely in knowing its limits that philosophy consists.

Philosophy, certainly, is some account of truths the fragments and very insignificant parts of which man will practice in this workshop; truths infinite and in harmony with infinity, in respect to which the very objects and ends of the so-called practical philosopher will be mere propositions, like the rest.

Philosophy, the love of Wisdom, is at the very bottom defence against the incomprehensible.

I chose philosophy because it sounded like something I ought to be interested in. I didn't know anything about it, I didn't even know what it was talking about. What I really spent my time doing in those years was writing short stories. There were all sorts of interesting courses, but what I really wanted to do was make stories one way or another.

What I always liked about Socrates was his insistence on questioning things for the sake of reaching some sort of clarity - even if it is only clarity about the gaps in our knowledge.

One can only become a philosopher, but not be one. As one believes he is a philosopher, he stops being one.

My reading of philosophy and history is desultory; I know so much and yet so little.

I know that I don’t know.

Philosophy is everybody's business.

Philosophy fulfills the need to create for ourselves a single and complete concept of the world and of life.