Quotes About Philosophy

I like to browse in occult bookshops if for no other reason than to refresh my commitment to science.

The most important questions of life are, for the most part, really only problems of probability. —MARQUIS DE LAPLACE A

Physicists, irrespective of their belief, may invoke God when they feel issues of principle are at stake because the God of the physicists is cosmic order.

I live inside my head," he told himself. "So does everyone in a way. So what goes on in there, must count. It must count a lot. I shall always live in my head, wherever I go or whatever I do for the whole of my life. So why shouldn't I be at home in there?

There are people who think death a fate worse than boredom.

I thought: Yes, to live the life of the mind is the truest form of happiness.

It does not matter what happens now. There is no world: it has fallen away from us.

People don't like to think, if one thinks, one must reach conclusions. Conclusions are not always pleasant.

I think the soul must be heavy and smooth, Myrna: I deduce this from the buoyant, jerky movements of puppets, which lack souls.

Eddie and Jim both said it was a great thing the Russians were winning because the strongest team should win. Shannon thought the fascist philosophy was a very comfortable one. You simply cheered for the winner, who proved by virtue of winning that he should have won. No analysis, no doubts, no troubling moral questions.

3 Si Dios es real, el dolor no existe. 4 Mas si el dolor es real, entonces es Dios Quien no existe.

what delights the poet is 'unintelligibility' ...(where) language doesn't sound like anything anyone could possibly say in 'real life' or in 'real philosophy.

There is no room for absolute truth upon any subject whatsoever, in a world as finite and conditioned as man is himself. But there are relative truths, and we have to make the best we can of them.

There is no higher religion than the truth.

Philosophy, however, could never have formed its conception of a logical, universal, and absolute Deity if it had no Mathematical Point within the Circle to base its speculations upon.

We are co-composers of the universe. We are on-creators of the God that is creating us.

Any space that distinguishes directions and accelerations cannot be "empty", in Aristotle's meaning.

In a way that starry night sky is a mirror in which we see our own faces.

I should die some day. Had I ever thought of it? I reflected. No, I had never thought of it. I could not. You can no more look destiny in the face than you can look at the sun, and yet destiny is grey.

Estamos crucificados; no como Dios, que lo fue en carne sobre una cruz, sino que estamos crucificados sobre el tiempo y el espacio.

An absolute can only be given in an intuition, while all the rest has to do with analysis.

For a conscious being, to exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.

A philosopher worthy of the name has never said more than a single thing: and even then it is something he has tried to say, rather than actually said. And he has said only one thing because he has seen only one point: and at that it was not so much a vision as a point of contact.

L'élan vital [the vital spirit].