Quotes About Philosophy

Life is chemistry, not biology.

If Enlightenment was the salad, Entanglement is the soup

No non-poetic account of reality can be complete.

Though many have tried no one has ever yet explained away the decisive fact that science which can do so much cannot decide what it ought to do.

Language, philosophy, and science are interwoven into the design of words, which are manipulated to create surprising illusions.

There is no other world. Nor even this one. What, then, is there? The inner smile provoked in us by the patent nonexistence of both.

PESSIMISM- philosophy forced upon the convictions of the observer by the disheartening prevalence of the optimist with his scarecrow hope and his unsightly smile.

Gratitude is something of which none of us can give too much. For on the smiles, the thanks we give, our little gestures of appreciation, our neighbors build their philosophy of life.

Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.

Good-humor is a philosophic state of mind; it seems to say to Nature that we take her no more seriously than she takes us. I maintain that one should always talk of philosophy with a smile.

I think [ fashion philosophy] it's about your smile and your smell.

For everything exists and not one sigh nor smile nor tear, one hair nor particle of dust, not one can pass away.

Irony is the bringing together of two contradictory truths and to make out of the contradiction a new truth, with a laugh or a smile.

The wittiest authors evoke a barely perceptible smile.

Let us play the game of life as sportsmen, pocketing our winnings with a smile, leaving our losings with a shrug.

Are there grounds now and then for an unironic smile?

Auguries of innocence "The emmet's inch and eagle's mile Make lame philosophy to smile. He who doubts from what he sees Will ne'er believe, do what you please.

Every thought should recall the ruin of a smile.

People in their natural state are basically good. But this natural innocence,however, is corrupted by the evils of society.

If you have a disease of the old society, take a dose of Lenin as medication.

To reorganize society without God or King, by the systematic culture of Humanity.

Cultivation of mind should be the ultimate aim of human existence.

Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise, every expanded prospect.

which is better - to be born stupid into an intelligent society or intelligent into an insane one?