Edward Abbey Quotes About Philosophy

Quotes about: Philosophy

• Why can't we simply borrow what is useful to us from Buddhism, Hinduism, Taoism, especially Zen, as we borrow from Christianity, science, American Indian traditions and world literature in general, including philosophy, and let the rest go hang? Borrow what we need but rely principally upon our own senses, common sense and daily living experience.

  Edward Abbey

  Philosophy, Buddhism, Common Sense

  Edward Abbey (2006). “Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast”

• An economic system which can only expand or expire must be false to all that is human.

  Edward Abbey

  Philosophy, Political, Growth

  Edward Abbey (1988). “Desert Solitaire”, p.114, University of Arizona Press

• Nothing could be more reckless than to base one's moral philosophy on the latest pronouncements of science.

  Edward Abbey

  Philosophy, Moral, Reckless

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.11, RosettaBooks

• Under the desert sun, in the dogmatic clarity, the fables of theology and the myths of classical philosophy dissolve like mist. The air is clean, the rock cuts cruelly into flesh; shatter the rock and the odor of flint rises to your nostrils, bitter and sharp. Whirlwinds dance across the salt flats, a pillar of dust by day; the thornbush breaks into flame at night. What does it mean? It means nothing. It is as it is and has no need for meaning. The desert lies beneath and soars beyond any possible human qualification. Therefore, sublime.

  Edward Abbey

  Philosophy, Lying, Mean

• A good philosopher is one who does not take ideas seriously.

  Edward Abbey

  Philosophy, Ideas, Doe

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.9, RosettaBooks

• I hate intellectual discussion. When I hear the words 'phenomenology' or 'structuralism', I reach for my buck knife.

  Edward Abbey

  Hate, Philosophy, School

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.10, RosettaBooks

• Every man has two vocations: his own and philosophy.

  Edward Abbey

  Philosophy, Men, Two

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.10, RosettaBooks

• In metaphysics, the notion that earth and all that's on it is a mental construct is the product of people who spend their lives inside rooms. It is an indoor philosophy.

  Edward Abbey

  Philosophy, People, Earth

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.11, RosettaBooks

• Reply to Plato: I seen horses I seen cows I haint never yet seen horsiness nor that there bovinity neither.

  Edward Abbey

  Horse, Plato, Philosophy

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.12, RosettaBooks

• Art, science, philosophy, religion -- each offers at best only a crude simplification of actual living experience.

  Edward Abbey

  Art, Philosophy, Crude

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.29, RosettaBooks

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