Quotes About Philosophy

Thinking over this thought, this whole thinking makes no sense.

Some people believe in imaginary friends. I believe in imaginary numbers.

We are all hunting for rational reasons for believing in the absurd.

My studies in Speculative philosophy, metaphysics, and science are all summed up in the image of a mouse called man running in and out of every hole in the Cosmos hunting for the Absolute Cheese.

The imagination is not a state: it is the human existence itself.

Reason is nothing without imagination.

I am interested in ideas, not merely in visual products.

Camus says in 'The Stranger' that reason is the enemy of imagination. Sometimes you have to put reason aside and make something beautiful.

Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.

The eternal gulf between being and idea can only be bridged by the rainbow of imagination.

What is thinkable is also possible.

Opinion involves belief (for without belief in what we opine we cannot have an opinion), and in the brutes though we often find imagination we never find belief.

For me, reason is the natural organ of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning. Imagination, producing new metaphors or revivifying old, is not the cause of truth, but its condition.

Psychologists have hitherto failed to realize that imagination is a necessary ingredient of perception itself.

Long may Louis de Broglie continue to inspire those who suspect that what is proved by impossibility proofs is lack of imagination.

Belief in the supernatural reflects a failure of the imagination.

God was created by evolution, inside the imagination of a primate.

Mere imagination would indeed be mere trifling; only no imagination is mere .

Further, for once, I like the idea that people who think I'm a constant voice for the furthering of the imagination have to see that interest in a more materialistic fashion.

Thoughts are like burning stars, and ideas, they flood, they stretch the universe.

Every powerful movement has had its philosophy which has gripped the mind, fired the imagination and captured the devotion of its adherents.

Idealism is the death of the body and the imagination. All but freedom, utter freedom, is death

All theories are legitimate, no matter. What matters is what you do with them.

The magnificent cause of being, The imagination, the one reality In this imagined world.