Quotes About Philosophy

The conservative movement today is so fractured that I think you'd have a tough time actually defining it and pointing to it.

What is time? If I am not asked, I know; if I am asked, I don't.

Time is, of all modes of existence, most obsequious to the imagination.

Nothing in the fact that there was a first moment in time necessitates that an external something is required to bring the universe about at that moment.

The next time anyone asks you "What is Bertrand Russell's philosophy?" the correct answer is "What year, please?"

Every attempt to solve the laws of causation, time, and space would be futile, because the very attempt would have to be made by taking for granted the existence of these three.

Everything that has name and form must begin in time, exist in time, and end in time. These are settled doctrines of the Vedanta, and as such the heavens are given up.

God is cruel and not cruel. He is all being and not being at the same time. Hence He is all contradictions. Nature also is nothing but a mass of contradictions.

The very idea of an infinite in place would be a contradiction in terms, as a place must begin and continue in time.

Internal and external nature, mind and matter, are in time and space, and are bound by the law of causation.

Asking about a time before the beginning of our spherical spacetime is like asking what lies north of the North Pole. There is no such thing.

In Russia, people suffer from the stillness of time.

Let others probe the mystery if they can.Time-harried prisoners of Shall and Will -The right thing happens to the happy man.

Even as regards Earth we are more committed to history than to geography, more committed to time than to space. History is endless. Place is limited.

Reading, reflection and time have convinced me that the interests of society require the observation of those moral precepts only in which all religions agree.

It is wise to seek immortality for time defeats all other ambitions.

To rove about, musing, that is to say loitering, is, for a philosopher, a good way of spending time.

The present, which, as a model of Messianic time, comprises the entire history of mankind in an enormous abridgment, coincides with the stature which the history of mankind has in the universe.

For man, the death of the body is inevitable, and is determined by time and circumstance; but, with proper precaution, the death of the soul may be totally avoided.

All beauteous things for which we live By laws of space and time decay. But Oh, the very reason why I clasp them, is because they die.

Shorten my days thou canst with sullen sorrow, And pluck nights from me, but not lend a morrow; Thou canst help time to furrow me with age, But stop no wrinkle in his pilgrimage.

I've always been fascinated by the concept of time.

Since labour is motion, time is its natural measure.

(although anyone with half a brain must surely be mired in existential gloom all the time)