Philosophy Quotes

I am haunted by my past and by what I must do to ensure my future.

~ Anthony T. Hincks

If you have someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for, your life is better than most battle.

~ Mark Sherman Smeester

Smiles, rainbows and a grain of rice.I could survive on that!

~ Anthony T. Hincks

We go from one war to another; we go from one terrorist group to another and we go from one calamity to another, but there is a pattern there if you know where to look.It's amazing how one when one war is about to end, another miraculously pops its head up.Coincidence? Hmmm...I'm highly skeptical.However, a lot of money seems to go into these 'wars' and there always seems to be little change left at the end of it.Like I said in my other quote...War! Someone's making a hell of a lot of money!

~ Anthony T. Hincks

One of the main purposes of university education is to escape from the Zeitgeist, from the mean, narrow, provincial spirit which is constantly assuring us that we are at the peak of human achievement, that we stand on the edge of unprecedented prosperity or an unparalleled catastrophe; that the next summit conference is going to be the most fateful in history or that the leader of the day is either the greatest, or the most disastrous, of all time. It is a liberation of the spirit to acquire perspective, to recognize that every generation is confronted by problems of the utmost subjective urgency, but that an objective grading is probably impossible; to learn that the same moral predicaments and the same ideas have been explored before. One need read very little in political theory to become aware of recurrences and repetitions.

~ Martin Wight

We can learn a lot from animals, if we're prepared to accept that they may just know more about life than what we do.

~ Anthony T. Hincks

Animals will always have sad eyes because they can see into the soul of man.

~ Anthony T. Hincks

The legacy left by man shall be barren earth, empty buildings, a toxic landscape, acidic seas and oceans, unbreathable air, no recognizable life and full bank vaults of gold & money.

~ Anthony T. Hincks

She may be dressed in black from head to toe, but she is still the brightest thing in my universe.

~ Anthony T. Hincks

This is our recurring temptation—to live within our camp’s caves, taking turns both as the shadow-puppeteers and the audience. We chant our camp’s mantras repeatedly so they continue reverberating in our skulls. When we stay entrenched within our belief-camps, we create the illusion of secure reality by reinforcing each other’s presuppositions and paradigms. We choose specific watering holes of information and evidence, and we influence each other in interpreting that data in accordance with the conclusions we desire. Our camps reinforce our existing cognitive biases, making cheating all the more common and easy.

~ Daniel Jones

When artificial intelligence comes of age, the first thing it's going to do is get rid of the inefficient parts.And guess who that will be!And what will happen to us?Well, to find out the answer to that question all you have to do is see what we do with all of our unwanted rubbish.

~ Anthony T. Hincks

Once, as I was burying one of my dead selves, the grave-digger came by and said to me, “Of all those who come here to bury, you alone I like.”Said I, “You please me exceedingly, but why do you like me?”“Because,” said he, “They come weeping and go weeping—you only come laughing and go laughing.

~ Khalid Gibran

I may be naked, but my thoughts are still hidden.

~ Anthony T. Hincks

A metaphysical understanding of what the world is, how it works, and how it all fits together, in general and abstract terms, could be the most real and important thing there is. In that case, we don't do metaphysics so that we can stay healthy and wealthy: we want to stay healthy and wealthy so that we can do metaphysics.

~ Stephen Mumford

Why is female vulnerability still only acceptable when it's neuroticised and personal; when it feeds back on itself? Why do people still not get it when we handle vulnerability like philosophy, at some remove?

~ Chris Kraus

Isn't the greatest freedom in the world the freedom to be wrong? What hooks me on our story is our different readings of it. You think it's personal and private, my neurosis... I think our story is performative philosophy.

~ Chris Kraus

The more thoroughly a person understands life, the less he will mock, though in the end he might still mock the thoroughness of his understanding.

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

Talent & skills are useless & won't get you anywhere, without lot of practise, commitment & prioritization.

~ De Philosopher Dj Kyos

Talent & Skills are useless & won’t get you anywhere, without lot of practice, commitment & prioritization

~ De Philosopher Dj Kyos

For to fear death, men, is in fact nothing other than to seem to be wise, but not to be so. For it is to seem to know what one does not know: no one knows whether death does not even happen to be the greatest of all goods for the human being; but people fear it as though they knew well that it is the greatest of evils.

~ Plato

Getting closer to the truth is the result of hard work. Truth-seeking means analyzing presuppositions and propositions. It means criticizing evidence as harshly as possible, scouring it from all angles to see how it stands up. We must scrutinize each claim on the table, using each tool available to determine if our acceptance of these claims is justified or not, then forcing ourselves to truly follow the responsible conclusions. If this kind of commitment to truth-seeking is sincere, and if the rules of reasonableness are adhered to, there is hope of productive dialogue between Christians and their opponents.

~ Daniel Jones

Challenging our sacred beliefs is both frightening and difficult, but we must do it. It is wrong to live in a laissez faire, relativistic or “pan-agnostic” bubble, where we refuse to face these paramount issues. The truth matters, and the consequences of not possessing it are unstoppable, and often destructive (whether we can see the harm or not). It is even a greater moral imperative to sort through the issues that have a serious impact on us, either individually or socially.

~ Daniel Jones

In this becalmed zone the sea has a smooth surface, the palm-tree stirs gently in the breeze, the waves lap against the pebbles and raw materials are ceaselessly transported, justifying the presence of the settler; and all the while the native, bent double, near dead than alive, exists interminably in an unchanging dream. The settler makes history; his life is an epoch, an Odyssey... Over against him torpid creatures, wasted by fever, obsessed by ancestral customs, form an almost inorganic background for the innovating dynamism of colonial mercantilism.

~ Frantz Fanon

History will always repeat itself, because it makes for good reading. It doesn't have to be truthful or factual, just entertaining with the odd fact thrown in for good measure.

~ Anthony T. Hincks

A black hole holds all the colors of the universe.

~ Anthony T. Hincks

You can't be me and I can't be you, so I guess that means we'll have to be ourselves.

~ Anthony T. Hincks

When I draw I don't capture your likeness. I capture your soul.

~ Anthony T. Hincks

Knowing when to be silent makes you seem wiser beyond your years.

~ Anthony T. Hincks

It's when we kiss that I feel your blood within my veins and your heartbeat within my soul.

~ Anthony T. Hincks

Trust undone will lead to heartache and pain. So I ask you to be honest and truthful in your love for me.

~ Anthony T. Hincks

When we turn to the heavens to look for inspiration, we miss the most important piece, and that is the person right there next to us.

~ Anthony T. Hincks

A.I. might be straight out of science fiction, but it's going to turn into man's worst nightmare.

~ Anthony T. Hincks

You may silence the critics, but you don't silence the pain.

~ Anthony T. Hincks

Being petty allows you to make mountains out of molehills.

~ Anthony T. Hincks

The loss of liberty may imprison a person, but it does not confine their mind.

~ Anthony T. Hincks

Censorship may promote the lies, but it does not alter the truth.

~ Anthony T. Hincks

It's when you smell the breeze, taste the salt and feel the waves beneath your feet that you truly know that you are alive.

~ Anthony T. Hincks

Each time I see a beautiful sunset or sunrise, I have to pinch myself because I can't believe that I'm awake and not dreaming.

~ Anthony T. Hincks

They say that absence makes the heart grow fonder, but absence also dulls the memory and then we tend to forget who we were missing in the first place.

~ Anthony T. Hincks

If I am your rainbow, then you are my pot of gold.

~ Anthony T. Hincks