Talulah Riley Quotes

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

Why are we here? Where do we come from? Traditionally, these are questions for philosophy, but philosophy is dead.

Philosophy begins in wonder. And, at the end, when philosophic thought has done its best, the wonder remains.

I'm taking a philosophy class and regretting it with everything in me. I'm taking one college class per semester. Philosophy is studying what you already know and dismantling it. I thought it would be right up my alley. I can't tell you how much it's not me.

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

From my undergraduate days, I've always been interested in the major philosophical questions that don't seem to have an answer that everyone agrees on.

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

Metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe upon instinct; but to find these reasons is no less an instinct.

I took all the philosophy courses I could.

I can get very philosophical and ask the questions Keats was asking as a young guy. What are we here for? What's a soul? What's it all about? What is thinking about, imagination?

You can't do without philosophy, since everything has its hidden meaning which we must know.

First, philosophy concerns itself with all kinds of issues that don't get much airtime in day-to-day life. What's the nature of reality? Can we ever truly know anything, and if so, how? What does it mean to be a moral agent? And while we're at it, is there any such thing as agency anyway?

I think Poe had a mission to tell us what it's all about. To answer some of the great questions of life.

Man - a being in search of meaning.

My purpose is to explain, not the meaning of words, but the nature of things.

I was interested in philosophy before I knew I was. That's to say, when I was at school, I used to argue with my friends about issues that turned out to be philosophical ones of some kind.

The two basic topics which fascinate me are 'What is reality?' and 'What constitutes the authentic human being?'

All of my work is sort of fed by a question, a need to understand the world and why the world is what it is.

I didn't study English literature - I studied philosophy at university - so Kierkegaard, Nietzsche - these people are among the most important writers to me. So my interest is in the big questions more than it is in storytelling.

Philosophy teaches you to think big.

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

Logic works, metaphysics contemplates.

I discovered philosophy in my youth when I read 'wildly,' and thus I was exposed to the world of ideas.

The greatest writers of this age... are aware of the mystery of our existence.

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.