Quotes About Philosophy

How can it be that mathematics, being after all a product of human thought which is independent of experience, is so admirably appropriate to the objects of reality?

Il y a deux façons de voir la vie, l'une comme si de rien n'était un mi- racle, l'autre comme si tout était mira- culeux.

The religion of the future will be a cosmic religion. It will transcend personal God and avoid dogma and theology.

in this materialistic age of ours the serious scientific workers are the only profoundly religious people

Ideas come from God.

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.

Intelligent life on other planets? I'm not even sure there is on earth!

The strange things about growing old is that the intimate identification with the here and now is slowly lost. One feels transposed into infinity, more or less alone.

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What is truth to the philosopher, would not be Truth, nor have the effect of Truth, to the peasant. The religion of the many must necessarily be more incorrect than that of the refined and reflective few, not so much in the essence as in its forms, not so much in the spiritual idea which lies latent at the bottom of it, as the symbols and dogmas in which that idea is embodied.

the satisfaction of one answer merely leads to asking another question, and so on into infinity.

All that happens means something; nothing you do is ever insignificant.

That all men are equal is a proposition which at ordinary times no sane individual has ever given his assent.

It is a bit embarrassing to have been concerned with the human problem all one's life and find at the end that one has no more to offer by way of advice than 'Try to be a little kinder.

We cannot reason ourselves out of our basic irrationality. All we can do is learn the art of being irrational in a reasonable way.

two thirds of all sorrow is homemade and, so far as the universe is concerned, unnecessary.

The Bhagavad-Gita is the most systematic statement of spiritual evolution of endowing value to mankind. It is one of the most clear and comprehensive summaries of perennial philosophy ever revealed; hence its enduring value is subject not only to India but to all of humanity.

Can you say something about nothing?

Nobody can have the consolations of religion or philosophy unless he has first experienced their desolations.

But that's the price we have to pay for stability. You've got to choose between happiness and what people used to call high art. We've sacrificed the high art.

But the nature of the universe is such that the ends never justify the means. On the contrary, the means always determine the end.

I don't care where I'm from. Nor where I'm going. From hell to hell.

To be shaken out of the ruts of ordinary perception, to be shown for a few timeless hours the outer and inner world, not as they appear to an animal obsessed with survival or to a human being obsessed with words and notions, but as they are apprehended directly and unconditionally by Mind at Large-- this is an experience of inestimable value to everyone and especially to the intellectual.

Nothing — the only perfection, the only absolute. Infinite and eternal nothing.