Quotes About Philosophy

I think we're part of a greater wisdom that we will ever understand; a higher order, call it what you want. Know what I call it? The Big Electron. It doesn't punish, it doesn't reward, it doesn't judge at all. It just is.

As far as I'm concerned, humans have not yet come up with a belief that's worth believing.

Whatever happened to "In victory, magnanimity; in defeat, defiance." So said Frederick the Great.

And finally, I've always drawn a great deal of moral comfort from Humpty Dumpty. The part I like the best? 'All the king's horses and all the king's men couldn't put Humpty Dumpty back together again.' That's because there is no Humpty Dumpty, and there is no God. None, not one, no God, never was.

I hope we're not just human garbage drifting toward a big sewer. But I think so.

People who see life as anything more than pure entertainment are missing the point.

Saints and martyrs had never interested Maggie so much as sages and poets.

I protest against any absolute conclusion.

It is very difficult to be learned; it seems as if people were worn out on the way to great thoughts, and can never enjoy them because they are too tired.

There is no general doctrine which is not capable of eating out our morality if unchecked by the deep-seated habit of direct fellow-feeling with individual fellow-men.

There are answers which, in turning away wrath, only send it to the other end of the room, and to have a discussion coolly waived when you feel that justice is all on your own side is even more exasperating in marriage than in philosophy.

For 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.

Probabilities—the surest screen a wise man can place between himself and the truth.

scepticism, as we know, can never be thoroughly applied, else life would come to a standstill

In so complex a thing as human nature, we must consider, it is hard to find rules without exception.

I am not quite sure whether clever men ever dance.

I think there are stores laid up in our human nature that our understandings can make no complete inventory of.

Human experience is usually paradoxical, if that means incongruous with the phrases of current talk or even current philosophy.

it had already occurred to him that books were stuff, and that life was stupid.

As to his religious notions—why, as Voltaire said, incantations will destroy a flock of sheep if administered with a certain quantity of arsenic. I look for the man who will bring the arsenic, and don't mind about his incantations. Very

it is seldom a medical man has true religious views—there is too much pride of intellect.

to have a discussion coolly waived when you feel that justice is all on your own side is even more exasperating in marriage than in philosophy.

O radiant Dark! O darkly fostered ray! Thou hast a joy too deep for shallow Day.

Plain women he regarded as he did the other severe facts of life, to be faced with philosophy and investigated by science.