Quotes About Philosophy

We are no more than taking a philosophical stroll in the park, here and there stopping to point out an interesting view. The park is not a paradise. Weeds grow, serpents lie in wait, and people have built slums over parts of it. But we do not have to inhabit them, if we are careful.

I don't practise any religion but I am deeply interested in the answers that mankind has come up with to explain the human situation.

Intelligent Design'] is a theology for control freaks.

timeless (and therefore untimely) truth.

The religion of love is no less attractive to the diehard atheist than to the agnostic or the believer. Many atheists find in love a taste of the absolute and the eternal that they rigorously deny to any other realm of life.

Was it still a miracle if someone had to suffer?

Romantics might like to think of themselves as being composed of stardust. Cynics might prefer to think of themselves as nuclear waste.

God exists since mathematics is consistent, and the Devil exists since we cannot prove it.

Maths is one of the purest forms of thought, and to outsiders mathematicians may seem almost other-worldly.

The nineteenth-century mathematician Leopold Kronecker said, "God made the integers; all the rest is the work of man.

I wonder if things can happen too early or too late or if everything happens at exactly the right time. If so, how sad and beautiful.

Life is over before you get to understand anything and so is probably meaningless

Art is an attempt to integrate evil.

She was ready to deny the existence of space and time rather than admit that love might not be eternal.

The proper method of philosophy consists in clearly conceiving the insoluble problems in all their insolubility and then in simply contemplating them, fixedly and tirelessly, year after year, without any hope, patiently waiting.

Humanism was not wrong in thinking that truth, beauty, liberty, and equality are of infinite value, but in thinking that man can get them for himself without grace.

A doctrine serves no purpose in itself, but it is indispensable to have one if only to avoid being deceived by false doctrines.

I can, therefore I am.

The Senator was vulgar, almost illiterate, a public liar easily detected, and in his "ideas" almost idiotic, while his celebrated piety was that of a traveling salesman for church furniture, and his yet more celebrated humor the sly cynicism of a country store. Certainly there was nothing exhilarating in the actual words of his speeches, nor anything convincing in his philosophy. His political platforms were only wings of a windmill.

Whatever the misery, he could not regain contentment with a world which, once doubted, became absurd.

Next to the humble man, we find wisdom.

The stuff of the world is mind-stuff.

The physical world is entirely abstract and without actuality apart from its linkage to consciousness.

Proof is the idol before whom the pure mathematician tortures himself.