Quotes About Philosophy

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I like maxims that don't encourage behavior modification. -Calvin

I wonder where we go when we die?" "…Pittsburgh?" "You mean if we're good or if we're bad?

Virtual reality has nothing on Calvin.

The turtle stands on a turtle, which stands on a turtle. That's the universe in whole, boy. It's turtles all the way down.

We must always look at things from the point of view of eternity, the college theologians used to insist, from which, I imagine, we would all appear to have speed lines trailing behind us as we rush along the road of the world, as we rush down the long tunnel of time- the biker, of course, drunk on the wind, but also the man reading by a fire...

It's overwhelming to think of all the things I'm not doing today, including being born." (106) from "April 21st

We must always look at things from the point of view of eternity, the college theologians used to insist, from which, I imagine, we would all appear to have speed lines trailing behind us as we rush along the road of the world

There's something about death going on here.

It doesn't matter about money; having it, not having it. Or having clothes, or not having them. You're still left alone with yourself in the end.

If the fact that brutes abstract not be made the distinguishing property of that sort of animal, I fear a great many of those that pass for men must be reckoned into their number.

Men are so necessarily mad, that not to be mad would amount to another form of madness.

Le silence eternel des ces espaces infinis m'effraie - The eternal silence of these infinite spaces frightens me.

Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth.

Atheists . What grounds have they for saying that no one can rise from the dead? Which is harder, to be born or to rise again? That what has never been should be, or that what has been should be once more? Is it harder to come into existence than to come back? Habit makes us find the one easy, while lack of habit makes us find the other impossible.

The last function of reason is to recognize that there are an infinity of things which surpass it.

Reason's last step is the recognition that there are an infinite number of things which are beyond it.

Man's grandeur is that he knows himself to be miserable.

If they [Plato and Aristotle] wrote about politics it was as if to lay down rules for a madhouse. And if they pretended to treat it as something really important it was because they knew that the madmen they were talking to believed themselves to be kings and emperors. They humoured these beliefs in order to calm down their madness with as little harm as possible.

Just as I do not know where I came from, so I do not know where I am going. All I know is that when I leave this world I shall fall forever into oblivion, or into the hands of an angry God, without knowing which of the two will be my lot for eternity. Such is my state of mind, full of weakness and uncertainty. The only conclusion I can draw from all this is that I must pass my days without a thought of trying to find out what is going to happen to me.

No religion except ours has taught that man is born in sin; none of the philosophical sects has admitted it; none therefore has spoken the truth

Being unable to cure death, wretchedness and ignorance, men have decided, in order to be happy, not to think about such things.

Men are so inevitably mad that not to be mad would be to give a mad twist to madness.

At the far end of this infinite distance a coin is being spun which will come down heads or tails. How will you wager? Reason cannot make you choose either, reason cannot prove either wrong.