Quotes About Philosophy

We are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think it is forever. What

O primeiro pecado da humanidade foi a fé; a primeira virtude foi a dúvida.

The known is finite, the unknown infinite; intellectually we stand on an islet in the midst of an illimitable ocean of inexplicability.

In a novel of ideas, the ideas have to work.

Whether we believe in God depends very much on what we mean by God.

la certeza absoluta siempre se nos escapará.

If stones could philosophize, I imagine Lithic Principles would be at the intellectual frontiers.

and this second kind of god they called God in a very straightforward way…but by God, they meant something not very different from the sum total of the physical laws of the universe; that is, gravitation plus quantum mechanics plus grand unified field theories….equaled God. And by that all they meant were a set of exquisitely powerful physical principles that seemed to explain a great deal that was otherwise inexplicable about the universe.

A vida é apenas uma visão momentânea das maravilhas deste assombroso universo, e é triste que tantos se desgastem sonhando com fantasias espirituais.

A idéia de que Deus é um gigante barbudo de pele branca sentado no céu é ridícula. Mas se, com esse conceito, você se referir a um conjunto de leis físicas que regem o Universo, então claramente existe um Deus. Só que Ele é emocionalmente frustrante: afinal, não faz muito sentido rezar para a lei da gravidade!

The world is a funny paper read backwards. And that was it isn't so funny.

Well, they say nature hates a vacuum. - That's what they say, but sometimes I think that a vacuum is a hell of a lot better than some of the stuff that nature replaces it with.

Y'know how indifferent I am to money. I think of money in terms of what it does for you.

BRICK: Well, they say nature hates a vacuum, Big Daddy. BIG DADDY: That's what they say, but sometimes I think that a vacuum is a hell of a lot better than some of the stuff that nature replaces it with.

The twentieth-century linguistic revolution," says Boston University anthropologist Misia Landau, "is the recognition that language is not merely a device for communicating ideas about the world, but rather a tool for bringing the world into existence in the first place. Reality is not simply 'experienced' or 'reflected' in language, but instead is actually produced by language.

If you don't smoke cannabis, you may spend your evening balancing your checking account. If you do smoke cannabis you may spend your evening contemplating the causes of the Greek Renaissance.

It is death that gives life its meaning.

If we have less time alive than the time we have lived, shouldn't it all be comfort food?

Yes, thinking meat! Conscious meat! Loving meat. Dreaming meat. The meat is the whole deal! Are you getting the picture?

Yes, thinking meat! Conscious meat! Loving meat. Dreaming meat. The meat is the whole deal! Are you beginning to get the picture or do I have to start all over?

She had grown to accept unpleasantness as a part of life rather than to struggle futilely against truths that could not be changed.

It is capitalism, not Marxism, that trades in futures.

Evil may be 'unscientific' but so is a song or a smile.

It is conceivable that not knowing the meaning of life is part of the meaning of life, rather as not counting how many words I am uttering when I give an after-dinner speech helps me to give an after-dinner speech. Perhaps life is kept going by our ignorance of its fundamental meaning, as capitalism for Karl Marx