Quotes About Philosophy

He wasn't certain whether he had just got space-sickness or religion.

The impossible often has a kind of integrity to it which the merely improbable lacks. How

I'd far rather be happy than right any day.' 'And are you?' 'No. That's where it all falls down, of course.

What does it matter? Science has achieved some wonderful things, of course, but I'd far rather be happy than right any day.

The alphabet does not go "A B C D What? When? How?" but it does go "V W X Why? Z.

Sometimes if you receive an answer, the question might be taken away.

Let us think the unthinkable, let us do the undoable. Let us prepare to grapple with the ineffable itself, and see if we may not eff it after all.

but I'd far rather be happy than right any day." "And are you?" "No. That's where it all falls down, of course.

but there comes a point I'm afraid where you begin to suspect that if there's any real truth, it's that the entire multidimensional infinity of the Universe is almost certainly being run by a bunch of maniacs.

Perhaps I'm old and tired,' he continued, 'but I always think that the chances of finding out what really is going on are so absurdly remote that the only thing to do is to say hang the sense of it and just keep yourself occupied.

Therefore we must be mad.' 'Nice day for it.

Then Frankie said: 'Here's a thought. How many roads must a man walk down?

Do you think they're…" "Where they are, how they are, there's no way we can know and no way we can do anything about it. Do what I do." "What?" "Don't think about it.

Curiously enough, the only thing that went through the mind of the bowl of petunias as it fell was, Oh no, not again. Many people have speculated that if we knew exactly why the bowl of petunias had thought that we would know a lot more about the nature of the universe than we do now.

Life is wasted on the living.'

The argument goes something like this: 'I refuse to prove that I exist,' says God, 'for proof denies faith, and without faith I am nothing.' 'But,' says Man, 'the Babel fish is a dead giveaway, isn't it? It could not have evolved by chance. It proves you exist, and so therefore, by your own argument, you don't. QED.' 'Oh, dear,' says God, 'I hadn't thought of that,' and he promptly vanishes in a puff of logic.

Science has achieved some wonderful things, of course, but I'd far rather be happy than right any day.

What's up? I don't know, said Marvin. I've never been there.

Hay una teoría que afirma que si alguien descubriera lo que es exactamente el Universo y el porqué de su existencia, desaparecería al instante y sería sustituido por algo aún más extraño e inexplicable.

the first phase is characterized by the question How can we eat?, the second by the question Why do we eat?, and the third by the question Where shall we have lunch?

quick bite at the Restaurant at the End of the Universe.

There are of course many problems connected with life, of which some of the most popular are: Why are people born? Why do they die? Why do they want to spend so much of the intervening time wearing digital watches?

Many were increasingly of the opinion that they'd all made a big mistake in coming down from the trees in the first place. And some said that even the trees had been a bad move and that no one should ever have left the oceans.

Ah, a vida - disse Marvin, lúgubre. - Pode-se odiá-la ou ignorá-la, mas é impossível gostar dela.