Quotes About Philosophy

Induction for deduction, with a view to construction.

Consciousness cannot be accounted for in physical terms. For consciousness is absolutely fundamental. It cannot be accounted for in terms of anything else.

We live in the most probable of all possible worlds.

My theory of evolution is that Darwin was adopted.

We ourselves are the entities to be analyzed.

The Sun is a mass of fiery stone, a little larger than Greece.

Contemporary science is based on the philosophy of materialism, which claims that all reality is material or physical.

By getting to smaller and smaller units, we do not come to fundamental or indivisible units. But we do come to a point where further division has no meaning.

Yoga is the art and science of living.

The word God is for me nothing more than the expression and product of human weaknesses.

A religion contradicting science and a science contradicting religion are equally false.

Science without respect for human life is degrading to us all and reflects a hollow and deceptive philosophy, a philosophy that we as a people should never condone.

The great question, whether man is of nature or above her.

Our intellect does not draw its laws from nature, but it imposes its laws upon nature.

The generality of men are so accustomed to judge of things by their senses that, because the air is indivisible, they ascribe but little to it, and think it but one remove from nothing.

He who possesses art and science has religion; he who does not possess them, needs religion.

Mathematics would certainly have not come into existence if one had known from the beginning that there was in nature no exactly straight line, no actual circle, no absolute magnitude.

Indeed, in view of its function, religion stands in greater need of a rational foundation of its ultimate principles than even the dogmas of science.

The cardinal error of science lies in shutting the Creator out of His Creation.

It is not in the books of the Philosophers, but in the religious symbolism of the Ancients, that we must look for the footprints of Science, and re-discover the Mysteries of Knowledge.

Culture (science) is the form of religion; Religion is the substance of culture (science).

Life is really about a spiritual unfolding that is personal and enchanting - an unfolding that no science or philosophy or religion has yet fully clarified.

Secular humanism is avowedly non-religious. It is a eupraxsophy (good practical wisdom), which draws its basic principles and ethical values from science, ethics, and philosophy.

The brain has not explained the mind fully.