Quotes About Philosophy

Three-fourths of philosophy and literature is the talk of people trying to convince themselves that they really like the cage they were tricked into entering.

When a question is asked that cannot be answered within the common frame of reference, it can be classified as nonsensical, or it can be dismissed as a question that is not appropriate, or the person who is asking the question can expand his or her consciousness to encompass a frame of reference from which the question can be answered.

It is a natural and powerful way to think of the Universe because physical light is a reflection of nonphysical Light.

You do an experiment because your own philosophy makes you want to know the result. It's too hard, and life is too short, to spend your time doing something because someone else has said it's important. You must feel the thing yourself…

The distinction between meat and other animal products is total nonsense. Vegetarianism is a morally incoherent position. If you regard animals as members of the moral community, you really don't have a choice but to go vegan.

We should never present flesh as somehow morally distinguishable from dairy. To the extent it is morally wrong to eat flesh, it is as morally wrong — and possibly more morally wrong — to consume dairy

The world is intense before becoming complex.

Two half philosophers will probably never a whole metaphysician make.

The most diverse beings are made substantive by the flame. Only an adjective is necessary to make them more specific. A cursory reader will perhaps see no more here than stylistic play. But if he participates in the inflammatory intuition of a poetic philosopher, he will understand that the flame is the source for a living creature. Life is a fire.

Rilke wrote: 'These trees are magnificent, but even more magnificent is the sublime and moving space between them, as though with their growth it too increased.

We are never real historians, but always near poets, and our emotion is perhaps nothing but an expression of a poetry that was lost.

For a knowledge of intimacy, localization in the spaces of our intimacy is more urgent than determination of dates.

A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language.

Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.

what is truth but a metaphor for the human condition?

Science fiction is the search for a definition of mankind and his status in the universe which will stand in our advanced but confused state of knowledge (science), and is characteristically cast in the Gothic or post-Gothic mode.

I've never been good with current events, she told us. I always keep getting bogged down with simple things, like 'why are we here?

The trouble with "now" is that no matter how much you wish it would, it doesn't last forever. But then... other than a grudge...what does?

You are labelling pieces of the world with words, then confusing your word-hoard for the totality of life.

La teoría de cuerdas tiene un inconfundible regusto a la Grecia antigua, pues en lugar de ser deducida de las observaciones del universo que nos rodea, es una posibilidad surgida de la pura matemática y luego ajustada al mundo

The ultimate paradox, of course, is that even though we're all going to die, we've all got to live in the meantime…

Astronomy is what we have now instead of theology. The terrors are less, but the comforts are nil'.

Bruno believed that the universe is infinite and filled with an infinite number of habitable worlds. He also believed that although each world exists for a brief moment when compared to the life of the universe, space itself is neither created nor destroyed; the universe is eternal.

Heisenberg removed the conceit that the workings of Nature should necessarily accord with common sense.