Quotes About Philosophy

I don't ever expect to be permanently happy. I don't think that's part of the human condition.

We must also be permitted to bear in mind that evolution, though it may explain everything else, cannot explain itself.

If a person never contradicts himself, it must be that he says nothing.

Your Excellency, I have no need of this hypothesis.

Il n'y a pas de Dieu, il n'y a pas de morale, rien n'existe de tout ce qu'on nous a enseigné à respecter; il y a une vie qui passe, à laquelle il est logique de demander le plus de jouissance possible, en attendant l'épouvante finale qui est la mort.

Que me terrassant aient vécu, plus haut et clair que nous ne vivons, ceux qui furent à peine et redeviennent si peu.

Car notre passé, qu'est-il d'autre qu'une suite de rêves ? Quelle différence y a-t-il entre se rappeler les rêves et se rappeler le passé ? Et c'est la fonction que remplit le livre.

The world changes materially. Science makes advances in technology and understanding. But the world of humanity doesn't change.

In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions, no longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it happened.

la propriété, c'est le vol!

All the most reasonable teachings of human wisdom concerning justice are summed up in that famous adage: Do unto others that which you would that others should do unto you; Do not unto others that which you would not that others should do unto you. But this rule of moral practice is unscientific: what have I a right to wish that others should do or not do to me? It is of no use to tell me that my duty is equal to my right, unless I am told at the same time what my right is.

For me, the response is simple. All ideas are false, that is to say contradictory and irrational, if one takes them in an exclusive and absolute sense, or if one allows oneself to be carried away by that sense; all are true, susceptible to realization and use, if one takes them together with others, or in evolution.

Mülkiyet h?rs?zl?kt?r.

Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

Napoleon , when hearing about Laplace 's latest book, said, ' M. Laplace , they tell me you have written this large book on the system of the universe, and have never even mentioned its creator .' Laplace responds, 'Je n'avais pas besoin de cette hypothèse-là. ( I had no need of that hypothesis .)

Sire,] je n'ai pas eu besoin de cette hypothèse." En répondant Napoléon qui lui demanda pourquoi sa théorie de l'univers ne indique pas Dieux.

The most important questions of life are indeed, for the most part, really only problems of probability.

Man is the one creature on Earth who knows he will die, and that is an appalling intellectual burden.

The Universe may be as great as they say. But it wouldn't be missed if it didn't exist.

A bit beyond perception's reach I sometimes believe I see that life is two locked boxes each containing the other's key.

After all, what is art? Art is the creative process and it goes through all fields. Einstein's theory of relativity – now that is a work of art! Einstein was more of an artist in physics than on his violin. Art is this: art is the solution of a problem which cannot be expressed explicitly until it is solved.

I wish to approach truth as closely as is possible, and therefore I abstract everything until I arrive at the fundamental quality of objects.

Even wisdom has to yield to self-interest.

Creatures of a day! What is man?