Quotes About Philosophy

Mathematicians enjoy thinking about the simplest possible things, and the simplestpossible things are imaginary.

I admit that twice two makes four is an excellent thing but if we are to give everything its due twice two makes five is sometimes a very charming thing too.

There are no simple solutions to imaginary problems.

When I read the Bhagavad-Gita and reflect about how God created this universe everything else seems so superfluous

Why seek a doctrine? As soon as you have a doctrine, you fall into dualistic thought.

The greatest Marxist writer of the twentieth century, paradoxically, is also one of the greatest examples of the independence of the human spirit from its material limitations.

Independence is earned by a few words of cheap confidence

There, did you think to kill me? There's no flesh or blood within this cloak to kill. There's only an idea.Ideas are bulletproof. Farewell.

The greatest human quest is to know what one must do in order to become a human being.

Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.

Atheists express their rage against God although in their view He does not exist.

I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.

God does not exist. He is being-itself beyond essence and existence. Therefore to argue that God exists is to deny him.

There are no beautiful surfaces without a terrible depth.

They muddy the water, to make it seem deep.

I think; therefore I am.

If I accept the sunshine and warmth, then I must also accept the thunder and lightning.

I don't believe in astrology; I'm a Sagittarius and we're skeptical.

The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.

One day, someone showed me a glass of water that was half full. And he said, "Is it half full or half empty?" So I drank the water. No more problem.

Truths are more likely to be discovered by one man than by a nation

No problem can withstand the assault of sustained thinking.

Real genius is nothing else but the supernatural virtue of humility in the domain of thought.

If there were no God, there would be no atheists.