Quotes About Philosophy

Michael O'Toole had no difficulty recognizing which questions in life should be answered by physics and which ones by religion.

Is there intelligent life on Earth? Yours

The Dean's complaining to his Faculty. "Why do you scientists need such expensive equipment? Why can't you be like the Math Department, which only needs a blackboard and a wastepaper basket? Better still, like the Department of Philosophy. That doesn't even need a wastepaper basket…

Futilitarianism.

But please remember: this is only a work of fiction. The truth, as always, will be far stranger. A.C.C.

If humans could not be rid of religion, it was argued, then let them at least not be harmed by it.

Lucretius hit it on the nail when he said that religion was the by-product of fear—a reaction to a mysterious and often hostile universe.

Theists believe there's not more than one God; Deists that there is not less than one God.

The evidence is confused with mysticism—perhaps the prime aberration of the human mind.

mysticism –perhaps the main aberration of the human mind.

The recipe for a long, happy life: consult with old philosophers and young doctors, consort with old friends and young women.

Ya sé, desde luego, que la Atlántida de Platón nunca existió en realidad. Por esta misma razón, nunca podrá morir. Siempre será un ideal, un sueño de perfección , una meta que inspirará a los hombres en la posteridad.

If the decades and the centuries pass with no indication that there is intelligent life elsewhere in the universe, the long-term effects on human philosophy will be profound, and may be disastrous. Better to have neighbors we don't like than to be utterly alone. —Arthur C. Clarke

It's odd. Sol Invictus—he's such a contrast to the cool thinking of the theists.

but all the world's religions cannot be right, and they know it.

A fin-de-siècle philosopher had once remarked—and been roundly denounced for his pains—that Walter Elias Disney had contributed more to genuine human happiness than all the religious teachers in history. Now, half a century after the artist's death, his dreams were still proliferating across the Florida landscape.

but in a subtler fashion. Science can destroy religion by ignoring it as well as

Yaln?zca zaman?n derman olaca?? ÅŸeyler vard? hayatta. Kötüler yok edilebilirdi, ancak akl? kar??m?? iyi birine kar?? hiçbir ÅŸey yap?lamazd?.

The Ghost in the Machine.

Or is the meaning of life no longer 42?

Western man had relearned—what the rest of the world had never forgotten—that there was nothing sinful in leisure as long as it did not degenerate into mere sloth.

In my own version of the idea of 'what art wants,' the end and fulfillment of the history of art is the philosophical understanding of what art is, an understanding that is achieved in the way that understanding in each of our lives is achieved, namely, from the mistakes we make, the false paths we follow, the false images we have come to abandon until we learn wherein our limits consist, and then how to live within those limits.

What is the meaning of it, Watson? said Holmes solemnly as he laid down the paper. What object is served by this circle of misery and violence and fear? It must tend to some end, or else our universe is ruled by chance, which is unthinkable. But what end? There is the great standing perennial problem to which human reason is as far from an answer as ever.

His ignorance was as remarkable as his knowledge. Of contemporary literature, philosophy and politics he appeared to know next to nothing... My surprise reached a climax, however, when I found incidentally that he was ignorant of the Copernican Theory and of the composition of the Solar System.