Philosophical View Quotes

That all men are equal is a proposition to which at ordinary times, no sane individual has ever given his assent.

Treat the world like a head.

You are a little soul bearing about a corpse, as Epictetus used to say.

No philosophy, no religion, has ever brought so glad a message to the world as this good news of Atheism.

I never graduated to being an atheist. I only graduated to being an agnostic.

Treat Death as it treats us: with utter indifference.

Look at everything through the lens of eternity. If you will do this, life will take on a different perspective.

I like man, but not men.

The world looks like something God had just imaged for his own pleasure, doesn't it?

I am an atheist. I have a very different take on who God is. Man invented God because he needed him. God is us.

I'd like to thank God for making me an atheist.

It is fatal to let people suppose that Christianity is only a mode of feeling; it is vitally necessary to insist that it is first and foremost a rational explanation of the universe.

My mom is an experimental chemist and physicist, so she is a cut-and-dried, nuts-and-bolts kind of woman, and my dad is a theoretical chemist, so we were definitely raised with his philosophical point of view: imaginary numbers and dimensions beyond our own. That's the kind of thing we would talk about.

When you really break it down to the way the world works, we're all little humans floating on a gas ball in the middle of space. That's the reality of our situation. And we've created these concepts and constructs that move us away from that.

Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God.

An atheist is a man who has no invisible means of support.

In the Hebrew language, there's no such word as coincidence.

The future is not so interesting for me because the future doesn't exist. I am really focused on the contemporary.

I grew up very strongly with this sense of time being circular: that it constantly returned upon itself.

What a writer's message is is totally unimportant. Either he is agreeing with life by affirming, or he is saying life is just a bowl of wormwood.

Like Nietzsche, I believe that without music, life would be a mistake. Nothing but silence says it better.

When a Tralfamadorian sees a corpse, all he thinks is that the dead person is in bad condition in the particular moment, but that the same person is just fine in plenty of other moments. Now, when I myself hear that somebody is dead, I simply shrug and say what the Tralfamadorians say about dead people, which is "So it goes.

There's nothing tantric about my particular view on life.

Man's attitude towards the universe and his opinion of the universe predates the scientific probe of the universe.

I often conflate the domestic and the cosmic on a daily basis.