Quotes About Philosophy

It's sad when you think about it, but also kind of beautiful.

All beauty is sad. [...] For it fades.

There are people in the world that believe in God and those who don't. I wonder how the ones without God can live.

Stop thinking. I've stopped some 15 years ago. Otherwise, if you will be thinking you won't want to live. Everyone who thinks is unhappy.

An equation means nothing to me unless it expresses a thought of God.

The more I study science, the more I believe in God.

My experiences with science led me to God. They challenge science to prove the existence of God. But must we really light a candle to see the sun?

Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion.

I believe in an immortal soul. Science has proved that nothing disintegrates into nothingness. Life and soul, therefore, cannot disintegrate into nothingness, and so are immortal.

A physicist is just an atom's way of looking at itself.

Two things awe me most, the starry sky above me and the moral law within me.

The Sun Stone, the famous Aztec calendar, is unquestionably a perfect summary of science, philosophy, art and religion.

Positivism is a theory of knowledge according to which the only kind of sound knowledge available to human kind is that if science grounded in observation.

If you study science deep enough and long enough, it will force you to believe in God.

All things are from water and all things are resolved into water.

Art is not communicative, art is not reflexive. Art, science, philosophy are neither contemplative, neither reflexive, nor communicative. They are creative, that's all.

When I hear of Schrödinger's cat, I reach for my pistol.

Why are things as they are and not otherwise?

Do there exist many worlds, or is there but a single world? This is one of the most noble and exalted questions in the study of Nature.

Ideology is the science of idiots.

That the universe was formed by a fortuitous concourse of atoms, I will no more believe than that the accidental jumbling of the alphabet would fall into a most ingenious treatise of philosophy.

The life of man is of no greater importance to the universe than that of an oyster.

Without analysis, no synthesis.

Be a philosopher but, amid all your philosophy be still a man.