Quotes About Philosophy

It is prima facie highly implausible that life as we know it is the result of a sequence of physical accidents together with the mechanism of natural selection.

Whom God has put asunder, why should man put together?

Let us hold our discussion together in our own persons, making trial of the truth and of ourselves.

You're on Earth. There's no cure for that.

I'm not a materialist, I don't care for things. I don't like cars, I hate things that can be exploited. I live a simple life. The only luxuries I have in my life are travel and food.

It is preferable not to travel with a dead man.

Look at the stars lighting up the sky: no one of them stays in the same place.

He won't fly on the Balinese airline, Garuda, because he won't fly on any airline where the pilots believe in reincarnation.

Modern Americans travel light, with little philosophic baggage other than a fervent belief in their right to the pursuit of happiness.

As it is, plain reasoning assures me I am not indispensable to the universe: but with this reasoning, somehow, does not travel my belief.

As far as belief goes, postmodernism prefers to travel light: it has beliefs, to be sure, but it does not have faith

Time travel offends our sense of cause and effect - but maybe the universe doesn't insist on cause and effect.

Behold the crucifix; what does it symbolize? Pallid incompetence hanging on a tree.

To be is to be perceived (Esse est percipi)." Or, "If a tree falls in the forest and no one is there to hear it, does it make a sound?

Philosophy: a purple bullfinch in a lilac tree.

I am going to outlive myself. Eat, sleep, sleep, eat. Exist slowly, softly, like these trees, like a puddle of water, like the red bench in the streetcar.

somewhere within sight of the tree of poetry that is eternity wearing the green leaves of time .

In some mysterious way woods have never seemed to me to be static things. In physical terms, I move through them; yet in metaphysical ones, they seem to move through me.

We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.

I think that the leaf of a tree, the meanest insect on which we trample, are in themselves arguments more conclusive than any which can be adduced that some vast intellect animates Infinity.

Annihilating all that's made, To a green thought in a green shade.

Where there is the tree of knowledge, there is always Paradise: so say the most ancient and most modern serpents.

Logic chases truth up the tree of grammar.

Trees are good for contemplation. Plato and Aristotle did their best thinking in the groves of olives and figs around Athens, and Buddha found enlightenment beneath a bo or peepul tree.