Quotes About Philosophy

What is it that makes a person insist passionately on the existence of metaphysical realities that can be neither demonstrated nor refuted? (176)

Our conceptions of the world affect our perceptions of the world which, in turn, condition the way we subsequently conceive the world.

Gotama did for the self was Copernicus did for the earth: he put it in its rightful place, despite its continuing to appear just as it did before. Gotama mo more rejected the existence of the self than Copernicus rejected the existence of the earth. Instead, rather than regarding it as a fixed, non-contingent point around which everything else turned, he recognized that each self was a fluid, contingent process just like everything else.

renowned British philosopher, Antony Flew, announced that he had repudiated a lifelong commitment to atheism, citing, among other factors, evidence of intelligent design in the DNA molecule.6

Earlier, in 1954, biochemist George Wald argued for the causal efficacy of chance in conjunction with vast expanses of time. As he explained, "Time is in fact the hero of the plot…. Given so much time, the impossible becomes possible, the possible probable, and the probable virtually certain."2

It is a great folly to deny or doubt of the existence or being of God: or, an atheist is a great fool.

in Jeffrey S. Cramer. Walden: A fully annotated edition. Yale University Press: New Haven, 2004

Robert T. Richardson, Jr. Henry Thoreau, A Life of the Mind. University of California Press: Berkeley, 1986

Stephen Mitchell. Tao te Ching. Harper Perennial: New York, 1991

René Guénon. Introduction to the Study of Hindu Doctrines. Sophia Perennis: Hillsdale, NY, 2001

For the Time Being, Annie Dillard. Alfred A. Knopf: New York, 1999

The Tao te Ching says, "If you stay in the center and embrace death with your whole heart, you will endure forever.

The Essential Gandhi: An Anthology of His Writings on His Life, Work and Ideas. Vintage: New York, 2002

American philosopher and psychologist Alan Watts imagined this web as a multidimensional spiderweb. He said, "Imagine this web in the early morning, covered with dewdrops. And every dewdrop contains the reflection of all the other dewdrops. And, in each reflected dewdrop, the reflections of all the other dewdrops in that reflection. And so on ad infinitum.

Perhaps an individual must consider his own death to be the final phenomenon of nature.

The greater the step forward in knowledge, the greater is the one taken backward in search of wisdom.

The greatest good, all that, which is also just a way of saying the least bad

We're not asking the real question, are we?" Letha the philosopher says, then. "What do you mean?" Jennifer asks. "Craven or Carpenter? Jason or Freddy? Psycho or Peeping Tom? Bava or Argento?

I think the real question's not how are they dead, but why don't they care.

Karma theory is a spiritual philosophy used to explain and maintain the economic status of Asia.

It was only when science convinced us that nature was dead that it could begin its autopsy in earnest.

God not only plays dice, He throws them in the corner where you can't see them.

Life would be tragic if it weren't funny.

Most sets of values would give rise to universes that, although they might be very beautiful, would contain no one able to wonder at that beauty.