Quotes About Philosophy

Faust, the Ninth Symphony, and the will of Adolf Hitler are eternal youth and know neither time nor transience.

There's time to slow down, after you're dead.

In reality, time and space exist in you. You do not exist in them.

Time is an illusion.

My own way of thinking is to ponder long and I hope deeply on problems and for a long time which I keep away for years and years and I never really let them go.

Time is three eyes and eight elbows.

I have said more than once, that I hold space to be something purely relative, as time; an order of coexistences, as time is an order of successions.

Now, now my good man, this is no time to be making enemies." (Voltaire on his deathbed in response to a priest asking him that he renounce Satan.)

It was a favorite expression of Theophrastus that time was the most valuable thing that a man could spend.

Time is not an absolute reality but an aspect of our consciousness.

Darn the wheel of the world! Why must it continually turn over? Where is the reverse gear?

Only fools and philosophers waste time on the unknowable.

Even when all the worlds have frozen or exploded, and all the suns gone dead and cold, there'll still be time. Oh, God, what for?

He was always late on principle, his principle being that punctuality is the thief of time.

Absolute, true and mathematical time, of itself, and from its own nature flows equably without relation to anything external.

The tradition of always looking for the answer in the most fundamental way available - that is a great tradition, and it saves a lot of time in this world.

There are four different theories concerning Divine Providence; they are all ancient, known from the time of the Prophets, when the true law was revealed to enlighten these dark regions.

I have a much easier time imagining how we would understand the big bang, even though we can't do it yet, than I can imagine understanding consciousness.

Time and space are only forms of thought.

I believe that the best style is a universal one, tactical and positional at the same time.

Postmodernism is silly and joyless at the same time.

What I claim is to live to the full the contradiction of my time, which may well make sarcasm the condition of truth.

We don't necessarily stand by our faults every time, but we will always stand by our methodologies and ethos.

Time is but a thought, a means of measurement, not a reality.