Quotes About Philosophy

Words, words, words! They shut one off from the universe. Three quarters of the time one's never in contact with things, only with the beastly words that stand for them.

Time isn't made of anything. It is an abstraction. Just a meaning that we impose upon motion.

This body is not a home, but an inn; and that only for a short time. Seneca Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

One cannot say of something that it is and that it is not in the same respect at the same time.

So as not to feel the horrible burden of time that breaks your back and bends you to the earth, be endlessly drunk.

I guess we often get the deep blues, both of us, and wonder what it all means- the people, the buildings, the day by day things, the waste of time, of ourselves.

I am simply an agnostic. I haven't yet had time or opportunity to explore the universe, and I don't know what I might run on to in some nook or corner.

I am increasingly convinced that the time has come to find a way of thinking about spirituality and ethics beyond religion altogether.

Time, matter, space - all, it may be, are no more than a point.

How can I tell," said the man, "that the past isn't a fiction designed to account for the discrepancy between my immediate physical sensations and my state of mind?

Not time is the measure of movement but: ...each constant periodic appearance of ideas.

Here or henceforward it is all the same to me, I accept Time absolutely.

You are pooped and demoralised," read Dwayne. "Why wouldn't you be? Of course it is exhausting, having to reason all the time in a universe which wasn't meant to be reasonable.

I am a Tralfamadorian, seeing all time as you might see a stretch of the Rocky Mountains. All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend itself to warnings or explanations. It simply is.

Since before time and space were, the Tao is. It is beyond is and is not.

I shall soon be six-and-twenty. Is there anything in the future that can possibly console us for not being always twenty-five?

For my own part, I had rather be old only a short time than be old before I really am so.

Over time, I started becoming more and more aware of the vastness and complexity of the universe, which led me away from any sort of conventional Christianity.

I am almost certain that space and time are illusions. These are primitive notions that will be replaced by something more sophisticated.

There is nothing so absurd or ridiculous that has not at some time been said by some philosopher.

The Oversoul is before Time, and Time, Father of all else, is one of his children.

For me, the problem of time is linked up with that of death, with the thought that we inevitably draw closer and closer to it, with the horror of decay.

Time's violence rends the soul, by the rent eternity enters.

My secret to staying young... Having no sense of time.