Quotes About Philosophy

We don't believe in anything as simple as metempsychosis—the movement of an individual soul from one body to another. That's not what we mean by reincarnation at all." "What

Religion is not for simpletons.

Truth is created, not discover!

Yet I have said over and over again that there is no "right" or "wrong" in the universe. A thing is not intrinsically right or wrong. A thing simply is.

Yes. Read the writings of the man called Rudolf Steiner. Explore the methods of The Waldorf School, which he developed.

Nothing is painful in and of itself. Pain is a result of wrong thought. It is an error in thinking.

Your refusal to contemplate your own death leads to your refusal to contemplate your own life.

Nothing has any meaning save the meaning you give it.

Time is a person-made concept.

Time is a person-made concept." "Really? Where'd you hear that?" "I made it up." "I don't know if that's true. We all live within time. It rules us." "I use my time how I want, so I rule it.

Science is a philosophy of discovery. Intelligent design is a philosophy of ignorance.

The moment when someone attaches you to a philosophy or a movement, then they assign all the baggage and all the rest of the philosophy that goes with it to you. And when you want to have a conversation, they will assert that they already know everything important there is to know about you because of that association. And that's not the way to have a conversation.

Science is a philosophy of discovery. Intelligent design is a philosophy of ignorance. You cannot build a program of discovery on the assumption that nobody is smart enough to figure out the answer to a problem.

Let there be no doubt that as they are currently practiced, there is no common ground between science and religion.

The options available to a creative person are ever limited by the choices offered by a philosopher.

I do not know what I appear to the world; but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on a seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay undiscovered before me. (Brewster 1860, p. 331)

Or what if everything we know and love were just a computer simulation rendered for entertainment by a superintelligent alien species?

The cosmic perspective is humble. The cosmic perspective is spiritual—even redemptive—but not religious.

We've come a long way since Herschel's experiments with rays that were "unfit for vision," empowering us to explore the universe for what it is, rather than for what it seems to be. Herschel would be proud. We achieved true cosmic vision only after seeing the unseeable: a dazzlingly rich collection of objects and phenomena across space and across time that we may now dream of in our philosophy.

If everything is so bright, there will be no place for light.

My confidence that there is a loving God who cares at all for your health or your longevity, based on what I see in the physical universe, is so low that it's not something that I would spend any time investing in, to try to explore any further about whether or not it's true. I'll let other people do that exploring. Read in the New Yorker, sometime in March, 2015

It's like asking what is south of the South Pole

What happened before all this? What happened before the beginning? Astrophysicists have no idea. Or, rather, our most creative ideas have little or no grounding in experimental science. In response, some religious people assert, with a tinge of righteousness, that something must have started it all: a force greater than all others, a source from which everything issues. A prime mover. In the mind of such a person, that something is, of course, God.

Can space exist in the absence of matter, if matter defines the edge of space?" Merlin