Quotes About Philosophy

We think only in signs.

Let us not pretend to doubt in philosophy what we do not doubt in our hearts.

Sometimes I lie awake at night and I ask, "Why me?", then a voice answers "Nothing personal, your name just happened to come up.

Zero is powerful because it is infinity's twin. They are equal and opposite, yin and yang. They are equally paradoxical and troubling. The biggest questions in science and religion are about nothingness and eternity, the void and the infinite, zero and infinity. The clashes over zero were the battles that shook the foundations of philosophy, of science, of mathematics, and of religion. Underneath every revolution lay a zero – and an infinity.

This is the definition of the infinite: it is something that can stay the same size even when you subtract from it.

In the battle between Kronecker and Cantor, Cantor would ultimately prevail. Cantor's theory would show that Kronecker's precious integers-and even the rational numbers-were nothing at all. They were an infinite zero.

Zero is powerful because it is infinity's twin. They are equal and opposite, yin and yang.

A true confession: I believe in a soluble fish.

Thoreau loved ants. He'd meet one in the morning and spend the whole day talking to him.

Dear Friedrich, the world's still false, cruel and beautiful...

Filosóficamente no puede confiarse en los ojos.

To be conscious is already to be divided, to be multiple.

Estranged from family and friends While racking our brains whether The world we see is truly out there, Or it never leaves our minds.

For Emily Dickinson every philosophical idea was a potential lover. Metaphysics is the realm of eternal seduction of the spirit by ideas.

Sleeplessness is like metaphysics. Be there.

Hope founded upon a human being, a man-made philosophy or any institution is always misplaced... because these things are unreliable and fleeting.

Like the famous mad philosopher said, when you stare into the void, the void stares also; but if you cast into the void, you get a type conversion error. (Which just goes to show Nietzsche wasn't a C++ programmer.)

But ah! disasters have their use; And life might e'en be too sun-shiny.

But an important point is that, once again as with "scientific" proofs of atheism, it is not the cast-iron intellectual reasoning which convinces, but the relief of revolt.

Having is estranged being.

Some of you read with me 40 years ago a portion of Aristotle's Ethics, a selection of passages that describe his idea of happiness. You may not remember too well.

The last part, the part you're now approaching, was for Aristotle the most important for happiness.

The greatest question of our time is not communism versus individualism, not Europe versus America, not even the East versus the West; it is whether men can live without God. WILL DURANT

We know, and it is our pride to know, that man is by his constitution a religious animal; that atheism is against, not only our reason, but our instincts; and that it cannot