Quotes About Philosophy

Max asked, 'Why death, do you think?' 'The Iroquois say that the world was too full, so the men and women got together, separately, to find an answer. The men came up with the idea of not having any more children. But the women refused to give up having babies. Death was their answer.' Max nodded. He took a deep breath. It felt like he hadn't breathed like that in month, maybe years.

Everything works out for the best. It's one of those things we say to comfort ourselves. A phrase that gets repeated so often we cease to question the absence of logic inherent in the statement. Since we have no way of knowing what the alternate reality might have been, we have no way of knowing if things worked out of the best or not.

Only fools and the dead are content.

Philosophy when superficially studied, excites doubt, when thoroughly explored, it dispels it.

o ateísmo é a menos racional de todas as concepções possíveis do mundo. p.179

Si Dios existe, debe estar fuera del mundo natural, y por lo tanto las herramientas de la ciencia no son las adecuadas para conocerlo.

What's the rush, little fellow?" asked Bibwit Harte. "What seems to be the trouble?" "You're the little fellow!" Jack said. "Hmm, well…in the grand scheme of the cosmos, I am a little fellow. We're all quite little, if you think about it that way. Good point, Jack.

This wise man observed that wealth is a tool of freedom. But the pursuit of wealth is the way to slavery.

What does a mirror look at?

Then, as his planet killed him, it occurred to Kynes that his father and all the other scientists were wrong, that the most persistent principles of the universe were accident and error.

We have eternity, beloved. You may have eternity. I have only now. But this is eternity.

The wise man molds himself—the fool lives only to die.

My Uncle Malky always said the Lord Leto never responded to prayer. He said the Lord Leto looked on prayer as attempted coercion, a form of violence against the chosen god, telling the immortal what to do: Give me a miracle, God, or I won't believe in you!

The singular multiplicity of this universe draws my deepest attention. It is a thing of ultimate beauty. Leto II

Irreverence is a most necessary ingredient of religion. Not to speak of its importance in philosophy. Irreverence is the only way left to us for testing our universe.

El misterio de la vida no es problema que hay que resolver, sino una realidad que hay que experimentar.

Belief fixes a granular universe and causes that universe to persist. Nothing can be allowed to change because that way your non-moving universe vanishes. But it moves of itself when you do not. It evolves beyond you and is no longer accessible to you.

Can you collect chaos? Not collecting, that is the ultimate gathering. What can you gather without gathering yourself.

Growing older is to grow more wicked.

Remember your philosopher's doubts, Miles. Beware! The mind of the believer stagnates. It fails to grow outward into an unlimited, infinite universe.

He has learned that it is difficult to live in the present, pointless to live in the future and impossible to live in the past.

For a moment, the sensation of coolness and the moisture were blessed relief. Then, as his planet killed him, it occurred to Kynes that his father and all the other scientists were wrong, that the most persistent principles of the universe were accident and error.

The Fremen have a simple, practical religion," he said. "Nothing about religion is simple.

The real universe is always one step behind logic.