Quotes About Philosophy

Grounded in the natural philosophy of the Middle Ages, alchemy formed a bridge: on the one hand into the past, to Gnosticism, and on the other into the future, to the modern psychology of the unconscious.

I'm not religious. I'm not an atheist. Would I say I'm an agnostic? Possibly. But I would say the collective unconscious is something I'm much more interested in.

Sigmund Freud was very much a creature of his time. He did not 'invent' the unconscious.

Our dream is to one day uncover the essence of what makes us human.

From my undergraduate days, I've always been interested in the major philosophical questions that don't seem to have an answer that everyone agrees on.

I was a philosophy major as an undergraduate, and I'm just an arrogant little thing. It's hard for me to admit that I can't understand something, let alone not be in charge of it.

As an undergraduate, I took a theology course titled Religion as Writing. If writing can be considered a form of faith, then inevitably doubt has to accompany it.

I've got two undergraduate degrees: one is a Bachelor's Degree in Philosophy and a Master's in Psychology. I'm gunning for my Ph. D. in Psychology but that's currently on hold.

I don't think about a theory of everything when I do my research. And even if we knew the ultimate underlying theory, how are you going to explain the fact that we're sitting here? Solving string theory won't tell us how humanity was born.

Because contemporary paganism is essentially so new, its underlying ethical structure is not particularly sophisticated.

We live in an extremely anxious age in which the core of our beliefs has been undermined to a great extent by scientific thinking.

In philosophy you're never 100% sure. You're always undermining what you think you know. That's always been my philosophy and my intellectual ethos.

Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand.

I say to mankind, Be not curious about God. For I, who am curious about each, am not curious about God - I hear and behold God in every object, yet understand God not in the least.

As I grow to understand life less and less I grow to love it more and more.

True thoughts are those alone which do not understand themselves.

I say a murder is abstract. You pull the trigger and after that you do not understand anything that happens.

No one has ever seen God. So, for me, it is acceptable that if you don't understand a thing, just call it God.

The older I get, the more I believe in what I can't explain or understand, even more than the things that are explainable and understandable.

To reasoned people, almost everything is understandable, but evil is forever incomprehensible.

Much learning does not teach understanding.

The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding.

My research career has been devoted to understanding human decision-making and problem-solving processes. The pursuit of this goal has led me into the fields of political science, economics, cognitive psychology, computer science and philosophy of science, among others.

Alchemy is a kind of philosophy: a kind of thinking that leads to a way of understanding.