Quotes About Philosophy

Unfortunately, with the collapse of classical civilization, these philosophical discussions and debates were lost. The concept that there could be a paradigm explaining the universe was forgotten for almost a thousand years. Darkness spread over the Western world, and scientific inquiry was largely replaced by belief in superstition, magic, and sorcery.

This world may be a phantasm and existence may be merely a dream, but this dream or phantasm to me is real enough if using reason well we are never deceived by it.

When Einstein later complained that "God does not play dice with the world," Bohr reportedly fired back, "Stop telling God what to do.

Olaf Stapledon's classic work of science fiction, Star Maker:

Aún hoy los físicos discuten sobre las implicaciones filosóficas de la teoría ondulatoria. ¿Cómo se puede estar en dos lugares al mismo tiempo? El premio Nobel Richard Feynman dijo una vez: «Creo que puedo decir, sin temor a equivocarme, que nadie entiende la mecánica cuántica».[1

The material world may come and go, but consciousness remains as the defining element, which means that consciousness, in some sense, creates reality.

la conciencia podría ser la base fundamental de toda la realidad.

there were two types of cosmologies in religion, the first based on a single moment when God created the universe, the second based on the idea that the universe always was and always will be. They

Given the issue is so fundamentally important to our view of who we are, a claim that our free will is illusory should be based on fairly direct evidence," he wrote in a 2004 book. "Such evidence is not available.

Every few days, Giordano Bruno has his revenge.

Escribe la siguiente frase de Séneca y mantenla a mano, leéla, guárdala en la memoria, en la gaveta del automóvil en la pantalla del computador y trata de que te cale lo más profundo posible: mientras se espera vivir, la vida pasa.

You don't need knowledge or great philosophical concepts. You don't need the acceptance of others. You express your own divinity by being alive and by loving yourself and others. It is an expression of God to say, "Hey, I love you.

Socrates, one of the greatest philosophers of all time, took his whole life to get to the point where he said, "As for me, all I know is that I know nothing.

There is no truth to find.

As artists, we distort the truth and create the most amazing theories; we create entire philosophies and the most amazing religions; we create stories and superstitions about everything, including ourselves. And this is exactly the main point: We create them.

Maybe we cannot escape from the destiny of the human, but we have a choice: to suffer our destiny or to enjoy our destiny. To suffer, or to love and be happy. To live in hell, or to live in heaven. My choice is to live in heaven. What is yours?

To be Toltec is a way of life. It is a way of life where there are no leaders and no followers, where you have your own truth and live your own truth.

I was using symbols to try to understand the truth, when the real truth is that the symbols have nothing to say about the truth. The truth existed long before humans created symbols.

Everything that exists is true: the earth is true, the stars are true, the entire universe has always been true. But the symbols that we use to construct what we know are only true because we say so.

Every one of our beliefs, from a minimal one like the sound of a letter to a whole philosophy, is using our life force to survive.

You didn't choose your religion or your moral values — they were already there before you were born. We never had the opportunity to choose what to believe or what not to believe. We never chose even the smallest of these agreements. We didn't even choose our own name.

todo el concepto de pecado deja de ser algo moral o religioso para convertirse en una cuestión de puro sentido común.

Qué es la felicidad? Orgullo satisfecho.

It wasn't what I was expecting, but like I've always said, if life gives you lemmings, jump off a cliff.