Rene Descartes Quotes

A conception not reducible to the small change of daily experience is like a currency not exchangeable for articles of consumption; it is not a symbol, but a fraud.

I was reading Plato's 'The Republic' at age 18, and I can't account fully the electricity that had for me.

My ideas are not meant to suggest dreams or reality, but a surreal quality.

Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.

Whenever people ask where I get my sick and twisted ideas from, I reply, 'Just open your eyes.'

To see things differently requires you to be wired a little differently.

The best things that capture your imagination are ones you hadn't thought of before and that aren't talked about in the news all the time.

When I spoke of the Progressive party as having a lunatic fringe, I specifically had you in mind!

Alien ideas are just as dangerous to us as the aliens themselves, no matter how plausible.

There is nothing so strange and unbelievable that it has not been said by one philosopher or another

Simon Critchley's 'The Book of Dead Philosophers' - it's a quick thumbnail sketches of philosophers through the ages.

A 'philosophical dictionary' is not a dictionary of philosophy that you use to look up obscure thinkers or recondite terms. It is a collection of brief and pithy essays on diverse topics, informed by one vision, and usually arranged in alphabetical order.

Yesterday's weirdness is tomorrow's reason why.

I think I am intrigued by paradoxes. If something seems to be a paradox, it has something deeper, something worth exploring.

It's perfectly O.K. to not be completely predictable. I am a person, and I have individual opinions that may not line up ideologically.

I don't think of 'heretic' as a pejorative term - necessarily.

I think it would be fun to walk around in Bill Murray's mind for a while.

I think my family knows that I'm slightly off the wall with my way of thinking, so I think they're quite used to my weird and wonderful creations.

In a way, there's nothing new under the sun, so anything you write about has been written about by other people. All you can do is bring yourself to it, bring as much honesty as you can to it.

College is an environment designed to encourage openness - the ability to think of things in novel ways and entertain unconventional beliefs.

Of course I am not going to be the favorite pick of everybody. That's because some people don't see things from my perspective.

I'm interested in extremes, in many ways.

I always wrote with some kind of angle of ignorance. I didn't know what was right or wrong.

I'm really quite normal. My imagination has some serious kinks in it, that's all.

Whether the origin of 'A Course In Miracles' is diabolical or merely psychological, the book proclaimed an anti-gospel of unreality and bred a cult of self-satisfaction for which Marianne Williamson has served as chief apostle.