Quotes About Philosophy

The eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility… The fact that it is comprehensible is a miracle.

A serious-minded man enjoys a good laugh now and then.

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Albert Einstein

Schopenhauer's saying, that "a man can do as he will, but not will as he will," has been an inspiration to me since my

Development of Western science is based on two great achievements: the invention of the formal logical system (in Euclidean geometry) by the Greek philosophers, and the discovery of the possibility to find out causal relationships by systematic experiment (during the Renaissance). In my opinion, one has not to be astonished that the Chinese sages have not made these steps. The astonishing thing is that these discoveries were made at all.

Our situation on this earth seems strange. Every one of us appears here involuntarily and uninvited for a short stay, without knowing the whys and the wherefore.

You can believe nothing or everything is a miracle. I believe everything is a miracle.

For us physicists believe the separation between past, present, and future is only an illusion, although a convincing one.

For any one who is pervaded with the sense of causal law in all that happens, who accepts in real earnest the assumption of causality, the idea of a Being who interferes with the sequence of events in the world is absolutely impossible. Neither the religion of fear nor the social-moral religion can have any hold on him.

If something does not exist, then it makes it very difficult to give it a definition.

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.

Time has no independent existence apart from the order of events by which we measure it.

Ne pokušavam zamisliti nekog osobnog Boga; dovoljno je stajati sa strahopoštovanjem pred ustrojstvom svijeta i iskusiti ga onoliko koliko su to naša nedostatna osjetila u stanju.

If God created the world, his primary concern was certainly not to make its understanding easy for us.

Physical concepts are free creations of the human mind,and are not however it may seem, uniquely determined by the external world

Only two things are infinite,the universe and memes,and i am not sure about the former.

Humor, motivations, moral,gods,energy,secrecy

I, in any case, am convinced He does not play dice with the universe.

Zwei Dinge sind unendlich, das Universum und die menschliche Dummheit, aber beim Universum bin ich mir noch nicht ganz sicher.

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

De werkelijkheid is louter illusie, maar wel een hardnekkige.

WHAT is the meaning of human life, or of organic life altogether? To answer this question at all implies a religion.

Mathematics is the poetry of logic and the music of reason.