Quotes About Philosophy

To discover the true principles of Morality, men have no need of theology, of revelation, or of gods: They have need only of common sense.

With a background in science I am extremely interested in the meeting ground of science, theology, and philosophy, especially the ethical questions at the border of science and theology.

Once upon a time, science, philosophy, and theology were disciplines largely undifferentiated from one another, and proving the existence of God was a fairly commonplace intellectual exercise. But as the scientific method became increasingly refined, particularly through the nineteenth century, science and religion grew apart.

Oddly enough, my favorite genre is not fiction. I'm attracted by primary sources that are relevant to historical questions of interest to me, by famous old books on philosophy or theology that I want to see with my own eyes, by essays on contemporary science, by the literatures of antiquity.

Theology in general seems to me a substitution of human ingenuity for divine wisdom.

Theology is the logic of the Devil.

I am fascinated in religion and theology and what people believe.

Scientists don't read theology; they don't read philosophy. It doesn't make any difference to what they're doing - for better or worse, it may not be a value judgment, but it's true.

Back when the natural sciences, philosophy, and theology were one great intellectual hodgepodge, proving the existence of God was a relatively commonplace exercise. To the modern mind, however, science and religion talk past each other.

When I was about 15 years old, I began to embark on an MC career but also to study philosophy with an emphasis on theology.

When you design a building, you start from a general philosophy, and you come down, and you start from detail and come up. Only the theoretical architect believes that you can make the concept and then sometime, somebody will come to build it.

After finishing the gymnasium in Muenchen with 9 years of Latin and 6 years of ancient Greek, history and philosophy, I decided to become a physicist. The great theoretical physicist Arnold Sommerfeld, an university colleague of my late father, advised me to begin with an apprenticeship in precision mechanics.

Mental illness, of course, is not literally a 'thing' - or physical object - and hence it can 'exist' only in the same sort of way in which other theoretical concepts exist.

My mom is an experimental chemist and physicist, so she is a cut-and-dried, nuts-and-bolts kind of woman, and my dad is a theoretical chemist, so we were definitely raised with his philosophical point of view: imaginary numbers and dimensions beyond our own. That's the kind of thing we would talk about.

The egoism which enters into our theories does not affect their sincerity; rather, the more our egoism is satisfied, the more robust is our belief.

Theories pass. The frog remains.

The theories of the major philosophers of the 18th century secular enlightenment were biblical and theological in spite of themselves.

I'm very interested in theories in how we exist: how people exist and how souls exist separate from their bodies or their brains.

I think philosophers can do things akin to theoretical scientists, in that, having read about empirical data, they too can think of what hypotheses and theories might account for that data. So there's a continuity between philosophy and science in that way.

It is always incorrect to assume you can know what someone's moral convictions are based on their philosophical theories.

While there I began to study the Asian religions as theories of mind.

I think it's normal that for a part of your life you have a lot of questions, and you're interested in all possible theories.

I'd rather sink with a bad theory than swim with muddy pragmatism.

My theory is to enjoy life, but the practice is against it.