Top Philosophy Quotes of All Time: Recent Episodes
Kristian Urstad
In this podcast I’m going to try to say something about those philosophical quotes that many of us have heard in passing but maybe haven’t taken the time to explore in more depth. Quotes that take us 5 seconds to read, but provide a lifetime of thought and inspiration.
Thomas Nagel is an American philosopher. In this episode, I talk about why it is he thinks absurdity is not a cause for despair!
Miguel de Unamuno was a Spanish philosopher. In this episode, I discuss his disturbing conclusion that consciousness is a disease! And so maybe we'd be better off being a crab than a human!
Albert Camus was a French writer and philosopher. In this episode, I talk about his famous notion of the absurd and what he thinks the right response to it is!
David Hume was an 18th century philosopher. He was skeptical about the idea that we have a permanent self that exists over time!
Solon was one of the seven wise men of Greece. In this episode I discuss one of his famous quotes, "Count no man happy until he be dead". I also talk about how this had an influence on the later Aristotle.
Lao-Tzu was an ancient Chinese philosopher, who's considered to be the founder of Taoism. In this episode, I discuss his quote "Practice non-action, Work without doing."!
Socrates was an ancient Greek philosopher. In this episode, I talk about his very famous slogan, "No one does wrong willingly"!
Jean Paul Sartre is a French existentialist philosopher. No philosopher has said as much about freedom and responsibility as he has!
Albert Schweitzer was a German philosopher and physician-missionary. In this episode I talk about his famous line, "reverence for life"!
Seneca was a Roman philosopher. In this episode, I discuss a quote that comes from his great essay called On the Shortness of Life!
Jeremy Bentham was a late 18th century and early 19th century utilitarian philosopher. Peter Singer is a contemporary Australian philosopher. In this episode, I discuss a quote that Singer references from Bentham in his seminal book Animal Liberation.
Friedrich Nietzsche was a 19th century German philosopher. In this episode, I discuss maybe his most famous quote, "God is dead"!
Simone Weil was a French philosopher and mystic. In this episode, I discuss a quote that comes from her essay on the Iliad.
Soren Kierkegaard was a Danish existentialist philosopher, and one of the most passionate voices for religious faith. In this episode, I discuss his quote, "Faith begins precisely where thinking leaves off"!
Arthur Schopenhauer was a 19th century German philosopher. In this episode, I discuss his quote "Our intellect is like a lame man who can see, riding on the shoulders of a blind giant"!
Empedocles was an ancient Greek Pre-Socratic philosopher. In this episode, I talk about his quote "The force that unites the elements to become all things is Love"!
John Stuart Mill was an English philosopher, and one of the most influential thinkers of the nineteenth century. In this episode, I talk a bit about his famous quote, "It is better to be a human being dissatisfied than a pig satisfied; better to be Socrates dissatisfied than a fool satisfied."
Socrates was an ancient Greek philosopher. He's considered to be the founding father of Western philosophy. In this episode, I talk about his famous counsel that we must care about the improvement of our soul!
Epicurus was an ancient Greek philosopher. He thought of philosophy entirely as a form of therapy for our anxieties and our fears. In this episode, I talk about his famous quote "Death is nothing to us. When we exist, death is not, and when death exists, we are not."
Jean Jacques Rousseau was a Swiss philosopher. In this episode, I talk about a quote that comes from his famous work on education, Emile! It goes: "Do not rebel against the hard law of necessity"!
Rene Descartes was a French philosopher and is often referred to as the founder of modern philosophy. In this episode, I talk about his famous quote "I think, therefore I am"!
Aristophanes was an ancient Greek comic playwright. In this episode, I talk a bit about a quote that comes from Plato's Symposium where Aristophanes is made to say, "Love is simply the name for the desire and pursuit of wholeness".
Martin Heidegger was a German philosopher and one of the most original and important thinkers of the 20th century. In this episode, I talk about his quote "Everyone is the other, and no one is himself"!
Aristotle was an ancient Greek philosopher and he's one of the most influential thinkers of all time. In this episode, I discuss his quote "Excellence is not an act, but a habit"!
Blaise Pascal was a 17th century French mathematician and philosopher. In this episode, I talk about his famous quote "The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of"!
Soren Kierkegaard was a Danish existentialist philosopher. In this episode, I discuss his quote "Truth is subjectivity"!
Albert Camus was a French writer and philosopher. In this episode, I talk about something peculiar he once said, namely, "I do not believe in God and I'm not an atheist."
Friedrich Nietzsche was a German philosopher, and he's one of the most profound and influential thinkers of all time. In this episode, I discuss his quote "Without music, life would be a mistake."
John Locke was an English philosopher. In this episode, I discuss his quote "The mind is a blank slate"!
Epictetus was an ancient Greek Stoic philosopher. In this episode, I discuss his quote, "What upsets people is not things themselves, but their judgments about these things".
Jean-Paul Sartre was a French Existentialist philosopher. In this episode, I discuss his quote "Hell is other people"!
Karl Marx was a German philosopher and great socialist revolutionary. In this episode, I discuss his quote, "Religion is the Opium of the Masses"!
Gottfried Leibniz is one of the great philosophers of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. In this episode, I discuss his famous quote, "This is the best of all possible worlds".
In this podcast I’m going to try to say something about those philosophical quotes that many of us have heard in passing but maybe haven’t taken the time to explore in more depth. Quotes that take us 5 seconds to read, but provide a lifetime of thought and inspiration.