Philosophical Questions Quotes

#1. Science, it is said, no doubt has ameliorated the material conditions of human life, but is powerless to solve those moral and philosophical questions that interest cultured people so deeply.

Elie Metchnikoff

#2. I still take great pleasure in playing around with philosophical questions, the ones that [Bertrand] Russell is the first to admit have no unequivocal answers. . . . I guess this quality makes me a Cerebral Hedonist, although some would say it makes me a mental masochist.

Daniel Klein

#3. There is a worry that many have expressed that, on the naturalistic way of approaching philosophical questions, philosophy will somehow be co-opted by science. I'm not much worried about this.

Hilary Kornblith

#4. Philosophical questions are so difficult, the problems they raise are so complex, that no one can fairly expect, now, any more than in the past, to win more than a very limited assent.

G.E. Moore

#5. I'm not a sociologist, and the novel has often concerned itself with sociology. It's one of the generating forces that's made fiction interesting to people. But that's not my concern. I'm interested in psychology. And also certain philosophical questions about the world.

Jonathan Lethem

#6. I'm not sure that I 'am' a philosopher - but I do engage with questions that are generally recognized as philosophical questions, such as the character of human existence and what makes for a good human life.

George Pattison

#7. 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.

E.L. Doctorow

#8. Godshawk looked surprised, the way that people generally do when you ask them philosophical questions in shrubberies in the middle of the night.

Philip Reeve

#9. Science fiction is very well suited to asking philosophical questions; questions about the nature of reality, what it means to be human, how do we know the things that we think we know.

Ted Chiang

#10. I can't wait to have words with the Gray King when this shit is all finished," Locke whispered. "There's a few things I want to ask him. Philosophical questions. Like, 'How does it feel to be dangled out a window by a rope tied around your balls, motherfucker?

Scott Lynch

#11. One of the peculiar features of philosophical questions is how eager people are to offer solutions that miss the point of the questions. Sometimes these failed solutions are scientific, and sometimes they are religious, and sometimes they are based on what is called plain common sense.

Rebecca Goldstein

#12. What I've found I really like about sci-fi is it can look at philosophical questions about humanity but in a different context. It can really make you think. That's what 'Doctor Who' does, even if it's a bit silly some other times.

Sarah Snook

#13. Mann was profoundly influenced by two philosophers, Schopenhauer and Nietzsche, who returned to the most ancient of all philosophical questions - "How to live?" - and whose writings offered novel perspectives for considering that question (much more perspective-offering than rigorous argument!)

Philip Kitcher

#14. We have to reconcile ourselves with philosophical questions in every field. Every field should be open to inquiry and knowledge.

Tariq Ramadan

#15. Why did a demon who possessed the savage strength of a werewolf also need such compelling beauty?
It was one of those philosophical questions that had no answer.
Like why Firefly had been canceled after just one season.

Alexandra Ivy

#16. difference in kind between empirical questions characteristic of science and philosophical questions about the fact of existence itself (a distinction lost on those who think that the universe as a whole, or matter-energy, or anything else that exists, might adequately explain its own being).135

Brad S. Gregory

#17. To be more precise: although philosophical questions concern us all, we do not all become philosophers.

Jostein Gaarder

#18. If you begin to ask questions, you will find the answers.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#19. Ask yourself your own questions and go after what might answer them. Before life, you must maintain a philosophical and scientific stance. Always.

Camilo Gomes Jr.

#20. Philosophic questions are attempts to understand the root nature of reality, existence, and knowledge.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#21. To be, or not to be: what a question!

E.A. Bucchianeri

#22. I take on a philosophical and postmodernist approach to the art-making process, investigating problems on a personal and intuitive level. This process is what fuels my mind and informs me, raises new questions, and gives my work resonance.

Michael Bell

#23. A set of excellent questions themselves is perhaps like a poem, both philosophical and intellectual.

Pearl Zhu

#24. I am not going to answer any questions as to my association, my philosophical or religious beliefs or my political beliefs, or how I voted in any election, or any of these private affairs.

Pete Seeger

#25. Thinking is no more or no less than asking questions. To improve your thinking, improve the quality of the questions you ask.

Stephanie Mbida

#26. If a specific question has meaning, it must be possible to find operations by which an answer may be given to it ... I believe that many of the questions asked about social and philosophical subjects will be found to be meaningless when examined from the point of view of operations.

Percy Williams Bridgman

#27. God is like a search engine - He is willing to answer your requests, but you must ask Him the right questions.

R.M. ArceJaeger

#28. What is evil?' asked the Fiend

Joseph Delaney

#29. Fundamentally, all art is about human beings. You're always showing larger moral questions through the smaller moral, philosophical, or political choices through one character in the book.

Philipp Meyer

#30. In a sense these are questions that most people ask themselves to some extent. They become philosophical when asked with a persistence and rigour that pushes past conventional or evasive answers. It's nothing to do with acquiring a technical facility in an academic discipline.

George Pattison

#31. Only the philosophical question is perennial, not the answers.

Paul Tillich

#32. As a filmmaker, I ask questions but don't have answers. Moviemaking is a philosophical exploration. I invite the audience to come on the journey and discover what they think and feel.

David Cronenberg

#33. Moments like this occurred more and more frequently, and I think that was the biggest difference between us. That we could look at the same stars in the same sky, but not have the same questions. Not want the same answers.

Stephanie Oakes

#34. Most of the propositions and questions to be found in philosophical works are not false but nonsensical.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

#35. Truths are as much a matter of questions as answers.

Ozzie Zehner

#36. You read the pragmatists and all you know is: not Descartes, not Kant, not Plato. It's like aspirin. You can't use aspirin to give yourself power, you take it to get rid of headaches. In that way, pragmatism is a philosophical therapy. It helps you stop asking the unhelpful questions.

Richard Rorty

#37. This seems to me a philosophical question, and therefore irrelevant, question. A poet's destiny is to love.

Robert Graves

#38. Some topics seem to be nothing but philosophical circles designed to lure the unsuspecting ant to its death.

D.E. Navarro

#39. It's when I am fully conscious that I ask questions.

Eugene Ionesco

#40. 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?

Jane Campion

#41. In school one learns to ask stupid questions of life.

Marty Rubin

#42. I was occupied by a range of questions, often different from those fashionable in the professional philosophy of the past half century, that have sometimes troubled philosophers in the past. It's taken me several decades to work out my own philosophical agenda, and it is wide.

Philip Kitcher

#43. Most propositions and questions, that have been written about philosophical matters, are not false, but senseless ... (They are of the same kind as the question whether the Good is more or less identical than the Beautiful.)

Ludwig Wittgenstein

#44. I started philosophy looking for answers. But along the way I came to prize exploring the questions. Progress in philosophy consists, I think, in a clearer delineation of the conceptual options, not in reaching determinate conclusions.

Kwame Anthony Appiah