Quotes About Philosophy

Speaking for myself, I've always found great intelligence in a woman a highly attractive feature.

Has anyone ever added a single hour to the length of his life by worrying about it?

The Christian religion is a very powerful and convincing mistake, that's all.

But we shouldn't believe things because it makes us happy to, she thought. We should believe things because they're true, and if that makes us unhappy, that's very unfortunate, but it's not the reason of fault.

The Christian religion is a very powerful and convincing mistake, that's all.

This is a deep and uncomfortable paradox, which will not have escaped you: we can only defend democracy by being undemocratic.

How can the weather have a state of mind?" said Papadimitriou. The gyptian said, "You think the weather is only out there? It's in here too," and tapped his head. "So do you mean that the weather's state of mind is just our state of mind?" "Nothing is just anything," the gyptian replied, and would say no more.

think of Adam and Eve like an imaginary number, like the square root of minus one: you can never see any concrete proof that it exists, but if you include it in your equations, you can calculate all manner of things that couldn't be imagined without it.

She felt loose and free and light in a universe without purpose.

la historia de la vida humana ha consistido en una lucha entre la sabiduría y la estupidez.

Its purpose was to defend democracy in this country, first of all. Then to defend the principles of freedom of thought and expression.

there are few natural philosophers as frustrated as astronomers in a fog.

He meant the Kingdom was over, the Kingdom of Heaven, it was all finished. We shouldn't live as if it mattered more than this life in this world, because where we are is always the most important place.

Then excuse me, Miss Silver, but they have separated their intelligences from their other faculties. And that is not an intelligent thing to do.

think of Adam and Eve like an imaginary number, like the square root of minus one: you can never see any concrete proof that it exists, but if you include it in your equations, you can calculate all manner

When you stopped believing in God," he went on, "did you stop believing in good and evil?" "No. But I stopped believing there was a power of good and a power of evil that were outside us. And I came to believe that good and evil are names for what people do, not for what they are. All we can say is that this is a good deed, because it helps someone, or that's an evil one, because it hurts them. People are too complicated to have simple labels." "Yes

But we shouldn't believe things because it makes us happy, she thought. We should believe things because they're true, and if that makes us unhappy that's very unfortunate, but it's not the fault of reason.

There's been terrible things we seen, en't there? And more a-coming, more'n likely. So I think I'd rather not know what's in the future. I'll stick to the present.' 'Yeah,' said Lyra wearily. 'There's times I feel like that too.

And was it true before Pythagoras realized it?" Malcolm thought. "Yes," he said. "It must have been." "So he didn't invent it. He discovered it." "Yes." "Good. Now let's take one of the alethiometer symbols.

Every thing possible to be believ'd is an image of truth. —William Blake

Había pensado acaso que la vida carecía de significado y de propósito por haber desaparecido Dios? Sí, lo había pensado. - ¡Pero el presente existe! Mary Malone

Le soleil noir de la Mélancolie.

Capable of being in uncertainties, mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching after fact and reason.' You

The question was, she thought, was the universe alive or dead?