Quotes About Philosophy

the theorem of incompleteness . . . [shows] there is nothing on this level of existence that can fully explain this level of existence.

There are no mineral monsters.

You sound like a college freshman taking his first philosophy class way too seriously, but that's good.

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Philosophy is a good horse in the stable but an errant jade on a journey.

In philosophy it is not the attainment of the goal that matters it is the things that are met with by the way.

Philosophy goes no further than probabilities and in every assertion keeps a doubt in reserve.

Philosophy is about everything when I say everything I mean both something and nothing. Something is what we can perceive and nothing is beyond our senses.

My philosophy is it's none of my business what people say of me and think of me. I am what I am, and I do what I do. I expect nothing and accept everything. And it makes life so much easier.

Philosophy is altogether less pure now. It's been impurified by science and social science and history.

My philosophy is my learning process. Until you die, you must evolve and improve.

My philosophy is: Life is hard, but God is good. Try not to confuse the two.

I basically have a very positive philosophy of life, because I don't feel I have anything to lose. Most things are going to turn out okay.

We live in a world in which politics has replaced philosophy.

The most interesting legal philosophy is German, so naturally I went to Germany, particularly to Berlin, quite a bit.

I sent my Soul through the Invisible, Some letter of that After-life to spell: And by and by my Soul return'd to me, And answer'd: 'I Myself am Heav'n and Hell

Only in dreams, in poetry, in play do we sometimes arrive at what we were before we were this thing that, who knows, we are.

When truth has no burning, then it is philosophy, when it gets burning from the heart, it becomes poetry.

The harmony of the world is made manifest in Form and Number, and the heart and soul and all the poetry of Natural Philosophy are embodied in the concept of mathematical beauty.

Because philosophy arises from awe, a philosopher is bound in his way to be a lover of myths and poetic fables. Poets and philosophers are alike in being big with wonder.

Fourier is a mathematical poem.

Sometimes my poetry is an attempt to keep off existential terror; sometimes it is a grappling with philosophical problems; sometimes just fun.

What's poetry? It's not real but maybe it's more than real. It's dreaming while you're awake.

I am composed of contradictions, which is why poetry is a better form for me than philosophy