Quotes About Philosophy

There are problems in this universe for which there are no answers," Paul said. "Nothing. Nothing can be done.

Let us not bandy philosophical nonsense. Every question can be boiled down to the one: 'Why is there anything?' Every religious, business and governmental question has the single derivative: 'Who will exercise the power?

Etrafta duyacak kimse yokken ormanda bir aÄŸaç devrilse yine de ses ç?kar m??

O sábio se automodela, o tolo só vive para morrer.

holy boredom is good and sufficient reason for the invention of free will.   —

Pluralitas non est ponenda sine necessitate

we can think of determinism as working backward as well as forward in time.

we can regard the human soul as a form of computer program, a program running on a wet computer we call the human brain.

In fact, if we consider an equation to consist of an infinite number of terms, there are no ultimate equations!

I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.

God is a circle whose center is everywhere and whose circumference is nowhere. —Empedocles

I want to live as long as I can, and die when I can't help it.

If we are continuously producing things which have no attribute of matter, there must be in us some element which is not matter, to produce them. This element we call spirit.

A spirit differs from a material thing by having no parts. Once we have mastered the meaning of this, we are close to our goal.

We possess our being, the philosophers say, successively.

Everybody believes in something and everybody, by virtue of the fact that they believe in something, uses that something to support their own existence.

Non esiste l'inferno. Esiste la Francia

Philosophy couldn't emancipate the mind, but technology just might. Google has set out to succeed where Descartes failed, except that it has jettisoned all the philosophical questions that rattled around in his head. Where Descartes emphasized skepticism and doubt, Google is never plagued by second-guessing. It has turned the liberation of the brain into an engineering challenge—an exercise that often fails to ask basic questions about the human implications of the project.

L'éternité, c'est long ... surtout vers la fin.

it is not necessary to accept everything as true, one must only accept it as necessary.' 'A melancholy conclusion,' said K. 'It turns lying into a universal principle.

No, said the priest, you don't need to accept everything as true, you only have to accept it as necessary. Depressing view, said K. The lie made into the rule of the world.

My condition is not unhappiness, but it is also not happiness, not indifference, not weakness, not fatigue, not another interest – so what is it then?

It is not necessary to accept everything as true, one must only accept it as necessary

I feel an unhappiness which almost dismembers me, and at the same time am convinced of its necessity