Willard Van Orman Quine Quotes

Immortals are, by definition, immortal. End of story.

A: Socrates is a man. B: All men are mortal. C: All men are Socrates.

I am mad, I think. I am mad therefore I think. I am mad therefore I think I am.

It is never until one realizes that one means something to others that one feels there is any point or purpose in one's own existence.

Speech is our second possession, after the soul-and perhaps we have no other possession in this world.

Life is more than breath and a heartbeat; meaning and purpose are the life of life.

Programming is all about numbers.

I tell, therefore you are.

Hopefully, great science fiction films help you think about issues that relate to yourself, whether it's: What's my purpose? Why am I here? What is it that makes me who I am? Those are the kind of questions my favorite science fiction films ask.

What are we? Young or new? We must be something.

I am not worthy of my suffering. A great sentence. It suggests not only that suffering is the basis of the self, its sole indubitable ontological proof, but also that it is the one feeling most worthy of respect; the value of all values.

A long time ago, Descartes sad, “I think, therefore I am.” But if you are not thinking, what?

Each waking day is a stage dominated for good or ill, comedy, farce, or tragedy, by a dramatis personae, the 'self', and so it will be until the curtain drops.

The philosopher Descartes believed he had found the most fundamental truth when he made his famous statement: "I think, therefore I am." He had, in fact, given expression to the most basic error: to equate thinking with Being and identity with thinking. The compulsive thinker, which means almost everyone, lives in a state of apparent separateness, in an insanely complex world of continuous problems and conflict, a world that reflects the ever-increasing fragmentation of the mind.

One of the main reasons for the existence of philosophy is not that it enables you to find truth (it can never do that) but that it does provide you a refuge for definitions.

Bewildered, bewildered, you have no complaint. You are what you are, and you ain't what you ain't.

The philosopher says--I am, and the church scouts his philosophy. She answers:--No! you are NOT, you have no existence of your own. You were and are and ever will be only a part of the supreme I AM, of which the church is the emblem.

God is love, I said, but art's the possibility of forms, and shadows are the source of identity.

Being is desirable because it is identical with Beauty, and Beauty is loved because it is Being.

if it is thus, I ask emphatically whence comes this thusness.

If you are what you do, then when you don't, you aren't.

To be is to do - Socrates To do is to be - Sartre Do Be Do Be Do - Sinatra

Change of the unchangeable would be a contradiction.

I do not think therefore I am a moustache