Quotes About Philosophy

God did not create evil. Just as darkness is the absence of light, evil is the absence of God.

I love Humanity but I hate humans

I shall never believe that God plays dice with the world.

The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been kindness, beauty, and truth.

The man of science is a poor philosopher.

I have never looked upon ease and happiness as ends in themselves — such an ethical basis I call more proper for a herd of swine. The ideals which have lighted me on my way and time after time given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Truth, Goodness, and Beauty.

I do not believe in the God of theology who rewards good and punishes evil.

When I study philosophical works I feel I am swallowing something which I don't have in my mouth.

A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life are based on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received and am still receiving. A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be.

God does not care about our mathematical difficulties. He integrates empirically.

Relativity applies to physics, not ethics.

The fanatical atheists...are like slaves who are still feeling the weight of their chains which they have thrown off after hard struggle. They are creatures who—in their grudge against the traditional 'opium of the people'—cannot bear the music of the spheres.

The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead.

The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with the joy of living are goodness, beauty, and truth.

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all art and science.

The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible.

The physicist cannot simply surrender to the philosopher the critical contemplation of the theoretical foundations for he himself knows best and feels most surely where the shoe pinches.... he must try to make clear in his own mind just how far the concepts which he uses are justified... The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.

Theories should be as simple as possible, but not simpler.

What is inconceivable about the universe is that it is at all conceivable.

What is the meaning of human life, or of organic life altogether To answer this question at all implies a religion. Is there any sense then, you ask, in putting it I answer, the man who regards his own life and that of his fellow creatures as meaningless is not merely unfortunate but almost disqualified for life.

There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.

Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.

Once you can accept the universe as matter expanding into nothing that is something, wearing stripes with plaid comes easy.

As a result of my philosophy, I wasn't even upset about Hitler. I was willing to go to war to knock him off, but I didn't hate him. I hated what he was doing.