Quotes About Philosophy

Aside from Velcro, time is the most mysterious substance in the universe.

I want to save lives, including my own, but Cambodians believe we just rent this body. It is just a house for the spirit, and if the house is full of termites, it is time to leave.

History does not record anywhere or at any time a religion that has any rational basis.

The timelessness of a concept has to be woven into the running warp of dying time, vertical power has to be wedded to the horizontal earth.

I'm not afraid of death. That is the greatest mystery of all. That'll be it, that one. But it is all a race against time.

To see economic policy as a problem of choice between rival ideologies is the greatest error of our time.

Without consciousness, space and time are nothing.

I mentioned that one of the tripartite formulas in American worldview involves time: past, present, and future.

I looked up at the mass of signs and stars in the night sky and laid myself open for the first time to the benign indifference of the world.

I'm fascinated by the fact that we can't grasp anything about time.

Well, the first time I ran into the term religion, people were asking whether you had any. You know, some people had religion and some people didn't have religion

Our soul is cast into a body, where it finds number, time, dimension. Thereupon it reasons, and calls this nature necessity, and can believe nothing else.

Time is an abstraction which, on earth, exists only for the human brain it has evolved.

Past, present and future are not amenities of language. Time unfolds into the seamsof being. It passes through you, making and shaping.

Why are people born? Why do they die? Why do they want to spend so much of the intervening time wearing digital watches?

The last time you were happy about nothing; the first time you were afraid about nothing. Which came first?

My ideas about time all developed from the realization that if nothing were to change we could not say that time passes. Change is primary, time, if it exists at all, is something we deduce from it.

If all time is eternally present, all time is unredeemable

I do not think seventy years is the time of a man or woman, Nor that seventy millions of years is the time of a man or woman, Nor that years will ever stop the existence of me, or any one else.

In the nineteenth century the problem was that God is dead. In the twentieth century the problem is that man is dead.

Most people are so busy living they neglect to take the time to ask why.

A political ideology is a very handy thing to have. It's a real time-saver, because it tells you what you think about things you know nothing about.

I still think that maybe the "afterlife" is just something we made up to ease the pain of loss, to make our time in the labyrinth bearable. Maybe we are just matter, and matter gets recycled

If you look long into human nature, you will see that the bonds which hold the firmest are not material ones, that an idea will make a man and mold a character, that it lies at the source of all heroisms, and is to be courted or feared, as the case may be.