Quotes About Philosophy

If an ontology predicts almost nothing it ends up explaining almost nothing, and there's no reason to believe it.

The punch line is that our notion of free will, the ability to change the future by making choices in a way that is not available to us as far as the past is concerned, is only possible because the past has a low entropy and the future has a high entropy. The

Space itself is not fundamental; it's just a useful way of talking from certain points of view.

Everything we want to think about human beings has to be compatible with the nature and behavior of the pieces of which we are made, even if those pieces don't tell the whole story. Understanding what those particles and fields are and how they interact with one another is a crucial part of comprehending what it means to be human.

There may be always a time of innocence. There is never a place.

It has been a long time since philosophers have read men's souls. It is not their task, we are told. Perhaps. But we must not be surprised if they no longer matter much to us.

Mankind might be divided between multitude who hate to be kept waiting because they get bored and the happy few who rather like it because it gives them time for thought.

When you stare into an abyss for a long time, the abyss also stares into you.

Does killing time damage eternity?

Doesn't becoming imply time?

They say it all started out with a big bang. But, what I wonder is, was it a big bang or did it just seem big because there wasn't anything else to drown it out at the time?

I never regret anything and I don't believe in regret. I think it's just a big time-waster.

Along with all else, Sandman is a comic strip for intellectuals, and I say it's about time.

The clock is impotent; mechanical time does not affect those living in an eternal present.

The philosopher spends in becoming a man the time which the ambitious man spends in becoming a personage.

The memory of everything is very soon overwhelmed in time.

The first step towards mastering time is always to make time meaningless

What business does memory have with time?

By the time you've reached your sixties, you do know that one day you will die, and knowing that is at least the beginning of wisdom.

To endow clock time with numinous meaning [is] hardly a fit occupation for an intelligent person.

Ah! my friend, for whomever is alone, without a god and without a master, the weight of time is terrible. One must then choose a master, God being out of style.

I realized people would soon forget me once I was dead. I couldn't even say that this was hard to stomach; really, there's no idea to which one doesn't get acclimatized in time.

he's incapable of suffering for a long time, or being happy for a long time. Which means that he's incapable of anything really worth while.

The fact that beauty is at one and the same time without cost and above price, robs it of the curse of possessiveness.