Quotes About Philosophy

If by eternity is understood not endless temporal duration but timelessness, then he lives eternally who lives in the present.

I spent the afternoon musing on Life. If you come to think of it, what a queer thing Life is! So unlike anything else, don't you know, if you see what I mean.

The Empress of Blandings was a pig who took things as they came. Her motto, like Horace's, was nil admirari.

Our friend Dirac has a creed; and the main tenet of that creed is: There is no God, and Dirac is his prophet.

Das ist nicht nur nicht richtig; es ist nicht einmal falsch

Einstein's life ended.....with a demand on us for synthesis.

One should no more rack one's brain about the problem of whether something one cannot know anything about exists all the same, than about the ancient problem of how many angels are able to sit on the point of a needle.

Amar es sufrir. Para evitar el sufrimiento se debe no amar. Pero entonces se sufre por no amar. Luego, amar es sufrir, y no amar es sufrir. Sufrir es sufrir. Ser feliz es amar. Ser feliz es, por lo tanto, sufrir. Pero sufrir hace que uno no sea feliz. Así, para no ser feliz, se debe amar, o amar para sufrir, o sufrir de demasiada felicidad. Espero que estéis tomando nota.

What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream?

What if everything is an illusion and nothing exists? In that case, I definitely overpaid for my carpet.

You rely too much on brain. The brain is the most overrated organ.

If God exists, I hope he has a good excuse.

Why are our days numbered and not, say, lettered?

Don't think of death as an ending. Think of it as a really effective way of cutting down your expenses.

You know what my philosophy of life is? That it's important to have some laughs, but you got to suffer a little too, because otherwise you miss the whole point to life.

Eternal nothingness is fine if you happen to be dressed for it.

Death doesn't really worry me that much, I'm not frightened about it... I just don't want to be there when it happens.

Why not? Life is short, life is dull, life is full of pain - and this is a chance for something special.

I wonder if Socrates and Plato took a house on Crete during the summer.

How is it possible to find meaning in a finite world, given my waist and shirt size?

All men are mortal. Socrates was mortal. Therefore, all men are Socrates.

In formulating any philosophy the first consideration must always be: What can we know? That is, what can we be sure we know, or sure that we know we knew it, if indeed it is at all knowable. Or have we simply forgotten it and are too embarrassed to say anything? Descartes hinted at the problem when he wrote, 'My mind can never know my body, although it has become quite friendly with my legs.

Is Knowledge knowable? If not, how do we know?

What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream? Or what's worse, what if only that fat guy in the third row exists?