Deep Philosophical Quotes

• My ex-wife was a philosophy major at NYU. Yeah, she and I used to have deep philosophical discussions where she would prove that I didn't exist.

  Woody Allen

  Philosophy, Philosophical, Nyu

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• If you thought you were trying to find out more about it because you're gonna get an answer to some deep philosophical question...you may be wrong! It may be that you can't get an answer to that particular question by finding out more about the character of nature. But my interest in science is to simply find out about the world.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Philosophical, Character, Trying

  Richard P. Feynman (2015). “The Quotable Feynman”, p.115, Princeton University Press

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• Spiritual intelligence is the capacity to conduct our life in such a way that it reflects deep philosophical and metaphysical understanding of reality and of ourselves discovered through personal experience during systematic spiritual pursuit.

  Stanislav Grof

  Spiritual, Philosophical, Reality

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• Grover didn't say anything for awhile. Then, when I thought he was going to give me some deep philosophical comment to make me feel better, he said, "Can I have your apple?

  Rick Riordan

  Philosophical, Feel Better, Apples

  Rick Riordan (2006). “The lightning thief”

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• Black is the absence of all color. White is the presence of all colors. I suppose life must be one or the other. On the whole, though, I think I would prefer color to its absence. But then black does add depth and texture to color. Perhaps certain shades of gray are necessary to a complete palette. Even unrelieved black. Ah, a deep philosophical question. Is black necessary to life, even a happy life? Could we ever be happy if we did not at least occasionally experience misery?

  Mary Balogh

  Philosophical, Happy Life, Thinking

  Mary Balogh (2009). “Then Comes Seduction”, p.230, Dell

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• There is a very common, though also very silly, picture of Kant according to which as empirical beings we are not free at all, and we are free only as noumenal jellyfish floating about in an intelligible sea above the heavens, outside any context in which our supposedly "free" choices could have any conceivable human meaning or significance. Part of the problem here is that Kant faces up honestly to the fact that how freedom is possible is a deep philosophical problem to which there is no solution we can rationally comprehend.

  Allen W. Wood

  Silly, Philosophical, Sea

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• Just because something might not have a deep philosophical meaning doesn't mean it's not important or relevant.

  Grimes

  Philosophical, Mean, Important

  Interview with Carrie Battan, pitchfork.com. February 16, 2012.

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