Quotes About Philosophy

Cynicism! That, no doubt is a greater crime than heresy.

But the tripod upon which Eternity swings is composed of flesh and thought and emotion.

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

That was the thing he resented about religion, Bickel thought—the way it appealed to emotion rather than intelligence.

Is consciousness merely a special form of hallucination?

You took the universe as you found it and applied your principles where you could.

How persistent it is, this demand that our gods be perfect. The Greeks were much more reasonable about such things.

What greater gift is there than to demonstrate you need not fear death?

Let us not bandy philosophical nonsense. Every question can be boiled down to the one: Why is there anything?

All proofs inevitably lead to propositions which have no proof! All things are known because we want to believe in them.

Teg boiled it down to an essence: If only one person followed such guiding principles, this was a better universe.

Our gods should mature as we mature.

Ali u istini je uvijek sadržana dvozna?nost rije?i kojima se ona izražava.

Misterul vie?ii nu este o problem? care trebuie rezolvat?, ci o realitate care se cere tr?it?.

The flesh surrenders itself, he thought. Eternity takes back its own. Our bodies stirred these waters briefly, danced with a certain intoxication before the love of life and self, dealt with a few strange ideas, then submitted to the instruments of Time. What can we say of this? I occurred. I am not . . . yet, I occurred.

En las profundidades de nuestro inconsciente hay una obsesiva necesidad de un universo lógico y coherente. Pero el universo real se halla siempre un paso más allá de la lógica.

My father once told me that respect for the truth comes close to being the basis for all morality. "Something cannot emerge from nothing," he said. This is profound thinking if you understand how unstable "the truth" can be. —FROM "CONVERSATIONS WITH MUAD'DIB" BY THE PRINCESS IRULAN

Não há mistério na vida humana. Não é um problema a ser resolvido, mas uma realidade a ser experimentada.

One can contemplate the Emperor and his powers comfortably if one remembers that all things are finite

To accept a little-death is worse than death itself," Chani said.

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

Nothing about religion is simple," she warned.

Ho! You ask after my faith. Well, now—I believe that something cannot emerge from nothing without divine intervention.

What mattered a single moon in such a universe?