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Quotes About Philosophy

I worship impersonal Nature, which is neither "good" or "bad", and who knows neither love nor hatred.
~ Savitri Devi
The possibilities that are suggested in quantum physics tell us that everything that we're looking at may not be in fact there, so the underlying nature of being is weird.
~ William Shatner
Man, wonderful man, must collapse, into nature's cauldron, he is no deity, he is no exception.
~ Charles Darwin
A child said What is the grass? fetching it to me with full hands; How could I answer the child? I do not know what it is any more than he.
~ Walt Whitman
Nothing else in nature behaves so consistently and rigidly as a human being in pursuit of hell.
~ Pete Townshend, Horse's Neck
The wealth required by nature is limited and is easy to procure; but the wealth required by vain ideals extends to infinity.
~ Epicurus
Fear is the mother of all gods ... Nature does all things spontaneously, by herself, without the meddling of the gods.
~ Lucretius
There should be no argument in regard to morality in art. There is no morality in nature.
~ Auguste Rodin
I prefer an attitude of humility corresponding to the weakness of our intellectual understanding of nature and of our own being.
~ Albert Einstein
Consciousness is a being the nature of which is to be conscious of the nothingness of its being.
~ Jean-Paul Sartre
Those who seek to satisfy the mind of man by hampering it with ceremonies and music and affecting charity and devotion have lost their original nature.
~ Zhuangzi
Christianity [is] a rebellion against natural law, a protest against nature.
~ Adolf Hitler
To me there is nothing that goes against nature. If it seems incomprehensible, its only because we havent been able to understand it yet.
~ Richard Matheson
Mankind is divided into two classes: those who, being artificial, praise nature, and those who, being natural, praise art.
~ Bertrand Russell
By nature, men are nearly alike; by practice, they get to be wide apart.
~ Confucius
Nature has given man no better thing than shortness of life.
~ Pliny the Elder
Communism is in conflict with human nature.
~ Ernest Renan
Why is there such a gap between nonspeaking animals and speaking man, when there is no other such gap in nature?
~ Walker Percy
Certain people always say we should go back to nature.I notice they never say we should go forward to nature. It seemstometheyare more concerned that we should go back, than about nature.
~ Adolph Gottlieb
Those who have obtained the farthest insight into Nature have been, in all ages, firm believers in God.
~ William Whewell
Your basic person wants to talk about material culture, internet culture. I think about God, cats, nature.
~ Billy Corgan
Everything in nature is lyrical in its ideal essence, tragic in its fate, and comic in its existence.
~ George Santayana
The communism of Karl Marx would probably be actually the best for everybody as a whole. But what he didn't figure into was human nature, and that's what corrupts it.
~ Jesse Ventura
I follow nature as the surest guide, and resign myself with implicit obedience to her sacred ordinances.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero