Quotes About Philosophy

Thinking begins only when we have come to know that reason, glorified for centuries, is the stiff-necked adversary of thought.

What a peculiar privilege has this little agitation of the brain which we call 'thought'.

Heretics are the only bitter remedy against the entropy of human thought.

Insurrection of thought always precedes insurrection of arms.

Nature is the incarnation of thought. The world is the mind precipitated.

The dead of midnight is the noon of thought.

A set is a Many that allows itself to be thought of as a One.

Language is the mother of thought, not its handmaiden.

Daoist thought is the root of science and technology in China.

Culture is to know the best that has been said and thought in the world.

I don't think I've ever been an agnostic. I've always thought there's a superior power, that this is not the real world and that there's a world to come.

To those who have exhausted politics, nothing remains but abstract thought.

If you are part of a religion that very strongly insists that you believe then to decide not to do that is quite a big hurdle to jump over. You never forget the thought process you went through. It becomes part of your whole intellectual picture.

I think ethics is always there; it's not always a very thoughtful or reflective ethics.

People get very thoughtful when they are in cars. I no longer care for cars. I don't collect them.

I have a philosophy that has guided me throughout all of my scientific career, and that is, I think of myself as a fairly thoughtful person. I don't go into projects impetuously, and I try to select important problems.

I don't believe in God, in prayer, in going to temples begging God to give me and my family happiness. I am not asking everyone to be an atheist, but good thoughts are not spent in a temple.

There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking itself is dangerous.

A fat stomach never breeds fine thoughts.

Eloquence is a painting of the thoughts.

So long as I confine my thoughts to my own ideas divested of words, I do not see how I can be easily mistaken.

Indignation is a submission of our thoughts, but not of our desires.

I don't know that we really think any thoughts; we think connections between thoughts. That's where the mind moves, that's what's new, and the thoughts themselves have probably been there in my head or lots of other people's heads for a long time.

Thoughts have no sex.