Quotes About Philosophy

You can't measure time the way you measure the distance between two points.

Pythagoras, when he was asked what time was, answered that it was the soul of this world.

When things happen - you ask yourself why today, why not tomorrow, why not yesterday? That's the most amazing thing about time.

If ever there were a time there was nothing, there would be nothing now.

A moment is a concentrated eternity.

Since the time of Plato and Aristotle philosophers have had an interest in taking note of common fallacies in reasoning.

People are bewitched into believing that time slips away, and this belief is the basis of time actually slipping away.

I believe it is possible that I shall make other creeds, and change this one, or add to it, from time to time, as new light may come to me.

Abstracts are real and time is a lie, it cannot be measured when one moment can expand to hold everything.

What to think of other people? I ask myself this question each time I make a new acquaintance. So strange does it seem to me that we exist, and that we consent to exist.

Forever is composed of Nows— 'Tis not a different time— Except for Infiniteness— And Latitude of Home

I deny the fact that when I kill time, time is actually killing me

Only eternal values can give meaning to temporal ones. Time must be the servant of eternity.

Wasting time has an esthetics to it.

Heaven is neither a place nor a time.

If you're studying Buddhism you never really have enough time because you're going to die.

I don't believe in anything, yet I believe emphatically in almost everything. It all depends on what seems appropriate at the time.

Time is not a movement in space. Space is a movement in time.

Once we have conceived of time and space, once we have accepted their existence, then that implies that there is a structural order to bonding realities.

"God", "the immortality of the soul", "salvation", "the beyond"-even as a child I had no time for such notions, I do not waste any time upon them-maybe I was never childish enough for that?

Light for some time to come will have to be called darkness.

Never to read another book that was born and baptized (with ink) at the same time.

The Philosophy of Princes is to dive into the Secrets of men, leaving the secrets of nature to those that have spare time.

All the doctrines that have flourished in the world about immortality have hardly affected man's natural sentiment in the face of death.