philosophy Quotes (19)

“God created man in His own image, says the Bible; philosophers reverse the process: they create God in theirs.”

“The notion that human life is sacred just because it is human life is medieval.”

“Life is absurd.”

“He who despairs over an event is a coward, but he who holds hope for the human condition is a fool.”

“There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.”

“Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man.”

“What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream? Or what's worse, what if only that fat guy in the third row exists?”

“I cannot conceive otherwise than that He, the Infinite Father, expects or requires no worship or praise from us, but that He is even infinitely above it.”

“The way to see by faith is to shut the eye of reason.”

“As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.”

“Let us not forget that knowledge and skills alone cannot lead humanity to a happy and dignified life. ... I claim credit for nothing. Everything is determined, the beginning as well as the end, forces over which we have no control. It is determined for the insects as well as for the stars. Human beings, vegetables or cosmic dust, we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance by an invisible piper.”

“The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is at all comprehensible.”

“People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.”

“Be like water making its way through cracks. Do not be assertive, but adjust to the object, and you shall find a way around or through it. If nothing within you stays rigid, outward things will disclose themselves. Empty your mind, be formless. Shapeless, like water. If you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. You put water into a bottle and it becomes the bottle. You put it in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Now, water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend.”

“The limits of my language mean the limits of my world.”

“I think, therefore I am.”

“Man is a thinking reed.”

“Know thyself.”

“You know, life can't just be about solving problems.”