Quotes About Philosophy

It is incomprehensible that God should exist, and it is incomprehensible that he should not exist.

What is man in nature? Nothing in relation to the infinite, everything in relation to nothing, a mean between nothing and everything.

Physical science will not console me for the ignorance of morality in the time of affliction.

We shall die alone.

Let us weigh the gain and the loss in wagering that God is, but let us consider the two possibilities. If you gain, you gain all if you lose you lose nothing. Hesitate not, then, to wager that He is.

Let us weigh the gain and the loss, in wagering that God is. Consider these alternatives: if you win, you win all, if you lose you lose nothing. Do not hesitate, then, to wager that he is.

We arrive at the truth, not by the reason only, but also by the heart.

Il n'est pas certain que tout soit incertain. (Translation: It is not certain that everything is uncertain.)

To ridicule philosophy is really to philosophize.

Man is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness from which he emerges and the infinity in which he is engulfed.

Man is to himself the most wonderful object in nature; for he cannot conceive what the body is, still less what the mind is, and least of all how a body should be united to a mind. This is the consummation of his difficulties, and yet it is his very being.

Not only had Yates continued to grow as a writer in terms of craft, but also philosophically, salvaging from the ruins of his life a greater degree of compassion for suffering humankind.

For every thing exists & not one sigh nor smile nor tear, One hair nor particle of dust, not one can pass away.

Fictional characters come trailing many cognitive puzzles.

As the dogmas of every religion and sect often differ radically, they cannot be true. And if untrue, what are they?

Whatever ignorance, pride or fanaticism may suggest to the contrary, Esoteric Cosmology can be shown inseparably connected with both philosophy and modern science. The gods of the ancients, the monads--from Pythagoras down to Leibnitz--and the atoms of the present materialistic school (as borrowed by them from the theories of the old Greek Atomists) are only a compound unit, or a graduated unity like the human frame, which begins with body and ends with spirit.

The futility of bourgeois existence is extended to be that of the human situation in general, of existence per se.

All reasoning is basically circular. Logic is a device we use to make the circles as large as possible.

How many roads must a man walk downBefore you call him a man?…The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind,The answer is blowin' in the wind.

I am against nature. I don't dig nature at all. I think nature is very unnatural. I think the truly natural things are dreams, which nature can't touch with decay.

Here's the thing with me and the religious thing. This is the flat-out truth: I find the religiosity and philosophy in the music. I don't find it anywhere else.

I don't think I've ever been an agnostic. I've always thought there's a superior power, that this is not the real world and that there's a world to come.

Death to me means nothing as long as I can die fast.

I accept chaos, I'm not sure whether it accepts me.