Quotes About Philosophy

Love is a mistake when we're all going to die any day now.

It is evident as a matter of logic that, since they (world religions) disagree, not more than one of them can be true.

On and on we wander in these pages--and we never reach the point because, happily, there is no point to reach.

History of Drama did leave me with one valuable thought. One of the playwrights--was it Lope de Vega?--believed that ideas were somehow spewed into the atmosphere to be seized by anyone with a receptive mind, and that upon receiving an idea one should use it immediately because others were sure to pluck the same idea from the spheres. This one wisp of philosophy, no more than a sentence or two from a college course, has haunted me all my writing life.

Life just wants to be; but it doesn't want to be much.

Physicists are atoms' way of thinking about atoms.

It is a slightly arresting notion that if you were to pick yourself apart with tweezers, one atom at a time, you would produce a mound of fine atomic dust, none of which had ever been alive but all of which had once been you.)

As far as we can tell, we are the best there is. We may be all there is. It's an unnerving thought that we may be the living universe's supreme achievement and its worst nightmare simultaneously.

Indeed, it has been suggested that there isn't a single bit of any of us – not so much as a stray molecule – that was part of us nine years ago.

J. B. S. Haldane once famously observed: "The universe is not only queerer than we suppose; it is queerer than we can suppose.

A straightforward way of defining metaphysics is as the set of assumptions and practices present in the scientist's mind before he or she begins to do science. There is nothing wrong

A physicist is the atoms' way of thinking about atoms. Anonymous

Resulta un tanto fascinante pensar que si tu mismo te fueses deshaciendo con unas pinzas, átomo a átomo, lo que producirías sería un montón de fino polvo atómico, nada del cual habría estado nunca vivo pero todo él habría sido en otro tiempo tú.

They are, reluctantly or enthusiastically, accepting the idea that humans are as much an accident of nature as a product of orderly development." But

As the Bhagavad Gita says, 'There never was a time when I was not . . . there will never be a time when I will cease to be.' Since time and space began together – as both St Augustine and the big bang attest – the Bhagavad Gita has a point. The chicken and the egg arrived at the same time.

Sir Thomas More came up with absurdity, acceptance, exact, explain, and exaggerate.

Henry Gosse, produced a somewhat desperate alternative theory called "prochronism" in which he suggested that God had merely made the Earth look old, to give people of inquisitive minds more interesting things to wonder over.

For minds and cogitation are, to Leibniz, the ultimate reality, and unless the minds have free will, they are not minds at all but physical mechanisms numbly obeying deterministic rules.

That is unquestionably the most astounding thing about us - that we are just a collection of inert components, the same stuff you would find in a pile of dirt.

I would sooner have bowel surgery in the woods with a stick.

a nivel atómico, en cierto sentido somos eternos.

Did you ever wonder if the person in the puddle is real, and you're just a reflection of him?

Hobbes: Do you think there's a God? Calvin: Well, somebody's out to get me!

To invent your own life's meaning is not easy, but it's still allowed, and I think you'll be happier for the trouble.