Philosophical Question Quotes

That's an interesting philosophical question. When your boner goes away, is that one gone... forever?

For a novelist, a given historic situation is an anthropologic laboratory in which he explores his basic question: What is human existence?

Is man one of God's blunders? Or is God one of man's blunders?

To God what is God's, to Caesar what is Caesar's. To humans—what?

Which came first, the mind or the idea of the mind? Have you never wondered? They arrived together. The mind is an idea.

I wonder what Adam and Eve think of it by this time.

Perfume was first created to mask the stench of foul and offensive odors... Spices and bold flavorings were created to mask the taste of putrid and rotting meat... What then was music created for? Was it to drown out the voices of others, or the voices within ourselves? I think I know.

The Answer to the Great Question... Of Life, the Universe and Everything... Is... Forty-two,' said Deep Thought, with infinite majesty and calm.

Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the fundamental question of philosophy.

If you have a little inteligence, sooner or later the question is bound to arise: What is the point of it all? Why? It is impossible to avoid the question for long. And if you are very intelligent, it is always there, persistently there, hammering on your heart for the answer: Give me the answer! - Why?

Did God create man, or did man create God? Either way, the decision needs to be reviewed.

The philosophical question before us is, when we make an observation of our track in the past, does the result of our observation become real in the same sense that the final state would be defined if an outside observer were to make the observation?

'What is the purpose of the universe?' is a silly question.

You ask: what is the meaning or purpose of life? I can only answer with another question: do you think we are wise enough to read God's mind?

No school of philosophy has ever solved this question of whether being determines consciousness or the other way around. It may be a false antithesis.

The word God asks a question and then answers it before there is any chance to wonder.

Where am I when I'm not in reality or in my imagination?

People into hard sciences, neurophysiology, often ignore a core philosophical question: 'What is the relationship between our unique, inner experience of conscious awareness and material substance?' The answer is: We don't know, and some people are so terrified to say, 'I don't know.'

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

He walked out into the cold morning asking himself this heretical question: Can you start measuring a minute at any instant you wish?

Why did Nature create man? Was it to show that she is big enough to make mistakes, or was it pure ignorance?

And, indeed, I will at this point ask an idle question on my own account: which is better — cheap happiness or exalted sufferings? Well, which is better?