Philosophy quotes

“- Darrell: You think bad, and bad's what you'll get.
- Bobby Cooper: That's an interesting philosophy there, Darrell.”
Billy Bob Thornton - Darrell
Sean Penn - Bobby Cooper

“How can he say that Pure Categories have no objective meaning in Transcendental Logic? What about Synthetic Unity?”

Pamela Stephenson - Lorelei

“Essence is revealed through praxis. The philosopher's words, his ideas, his actions, cannot be separated from his value, his meaning. That's what it's all about, isn't it? Our impact on other egos.”
Lili Taylor - Kathleen Conklin

“Just remind yourself that in a hundred years you're gonna be dead. It's the closest thing I've got to a philosophy.”
Steve Zahn - Fuller

“- Young Girl: I understand you studied philosophy at school.
- Sandy Bates: Uh, no, that's not true. I did take - I took one course in existential philosophy at, uh... at New York University, and on the final... they gave me ten questions, and I couldn't answer a single one of 'em. You know? I left 'em all blank... I got a hundred.”
Woody Allen - Sandy Bates

“I once read that the only philosophical question that matters, is whether or not to commit suicide... I guess that makes me a philosopher.”
Jim Carrey - Walter Sparrow

I can sum up our entire philosophy with this glass. I can look at it and say it's half-full, which in the beauty pageant biz means "where the hell's my waiter?".
Nora Dunn - Colleen Douglas, State Pagent

“- Charles Van Doren: I'm just trying to imagine what Kant would make of this.
- Albert Freedman: I don't think he'd have a problem with it.”
Ralph Fiennes - Charles Van Doren
Hank Azaria - Albert Freedman

“My philosophy is: sleep late, drive fast, and not take any of this shit seriously.”
Tate Donovan - Kevin Donaldson

“- Stoney: Um, Robyn Sweeney, bro? She's not going to the prom with you, man. I wish she would, but she's really not.
- Dave: What are you talking about? Robyn Sweeney is mine. She's become a major babe, and she loves me.
- Stoney: She finds you crusty, Dave.
- Dave: I'll convince her! She'll see the truth.
- Stoney: The truth is bro, life's...” (continue)(continue reading)
Pauly Shore - Stoney Brown
Sean Astin - Dave

“- Eddie Jillette: Once a month without fail you get bullshit philosophical with me.
- Joe Collins: Yeah, well, that's what happens when you get married, Eddie.”
Richard Tiffany Gere - Eddie Jillette
Gary Basaraba - Joe Collins

“Marla's philosophy of life is that she might die at any moment. The tragedy, she said, was that she didn't.”
Edward Norton - The Narrator

- Godbole: Nothing you do will change the outcome.
- Fielding: So "do nothing"! Is that your philosophy?
- Godbole: My philosophy is you can do what you like... but the outcome will be the same.
Alec Guinness - Godbole
James Fox - Fielding

“- Adso of Melk: Master? Have you ever been in love?
- William of Baskerville: In love? Yeah, many times.
- Adso of Melk: You were?
- William of Baskerville: Yes, of course. Aristotle, Ovid, Vergil...”
Christian Slater - Adso von Melk
Sir Sean Connery - William von Baskerville

"The love that dare not speak its name", in this century, is such a great affection of an elder for a younger man as there was between David and Johnathan. Such as Plato made the very basis of his philosophy, and such as you may find in the sonnets of Michelangelo or Shakespeare. It is, in this century, misunderstood.

Stephen Fry - Oscar Wilde

“He was taken to the east, a great prize, where the war masters would teach him the deepest secrets. Language and writing were also made available, the poetry of Khitai, the philosophy of Sung; and he also came to know the pleasures of women, when he was bred to the finest stock. But, always, there remained the discipline of steel.”

Mako - The Wizard

“- Grommet: Fuck the stakes Bodhi! The only one that thinks that this is a game is you, man. This is real. This is serious shit, and I am scared.
- Bodhi: What's the matter with you guys? This was never about the money, this was about us against the system. That system that kills the human spirit. We stand for something. We are here to show those...” (continue)(continue reading)
Bojesse Christopher - Grommet
Patrick Swayze - Bodhi

“- Daniel: They are teaching you existentialism?
- Lauren: Heidegger isn't really an existentialist.
- Daniel: He claims he isn't. His writing says he is.”
Thelonious Bernard - Daniel
Diane Lane - Lauren

“- Vincent Vega: Jules, did you ever hear the philosophy that once a man admits that he's wrong that he is immediately forgiven for all wrongdoings? Have you ever heard that?
- Jules Winnfield: Get the fuck out my face with that shit! The motherfucker that said that shit never had to pick up itty-bitty pieces of skull on account of your dumb ass.”

John Travolta - Vincent Vega
Samuel L. Jackson - Jules Winnfield

“Is philosophy biodegradable?”
Hillary Wolf - Laura Chartoff

“- Roman: I tell you what I see when I look out there. I see the undeveloped resources of Minnesota, Northern Wisconsin, and Michigan. I see a syndicated development consortium exploiting over a billion and a half dollars in forest products. I see a paper mill and if the strategic metals are there, a mining operation. A greenbelt between the...” (continue)(continue reading)
Dan Aykroyd - Roman Craig
John Candy - Chet Ripley

“- Zed: I have my own special philosophy, consistent with my unique lifestyle. I've always felt that the... best of life lies closest to death... living on the edge... that's where you find the thrill of life.
- Daria: I couldn't agree with you less. The best of life lies as far from death as possible.
- Zed: In the end, no one wins the game of...” (continue)(continue reading)
Don Scribner - Zed
Cindy Beal - Daria