Philosophy Quotes

But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniu...

We are the local embodiment of a Cosmos grown to self-awareness. We have begun to contemplate our or...

The fossil record implies trial and error, the inability to anticipate the future, features inconsis...

The beauty of a living thing is not the atoms that go into it, but the way those atoms are put toget...

There is something stunningly narrow about how the Anthropic Principle is phrased. Yes, only certain...

From this distant vantage point, the Earth might not seem of particular interest. But for us, it's d...

If we are merely matter intricately assembled, is this really demeaning? If there's nothing here but...

Our knowledge of circumstances has increased, but our uncertainty, instead of having diminished, has...

Here, on the edge of what we know, in contact with the ocean of the unknown, shines the mystery and ...

What are we, in this boundless and glowing world?

Life on Earth gives only a small taste of what can happen in the universe.

It is hardly surprising that there are more things in heaven and earth, dear reader, than have been ...

I knew then that I would devote every minute we had left together to making her happy, to repairing...

The only difference between a good shot and a bad shot is if it goes in or not

To be wicked is never excusable, but there is some merit in knowing that you are; the most irreparab...

And, drunk with my own madness, I shouted at him furiously, "Make life beautiful! Make life beautifu...

L'étude du beau est un duel où l'artiste crie de frayeur avant d'être vaincu.

Nothing was ever in tune. People just blindly grabbed at whatever there was: communism, health foods...

Never say never

I care for no man on earth, and no man on earth cares for me.

People with a psychological need to believe in marvels are no more prejudiced and gullible than peop...

Panentheistic doctrine contains all of deism and pandeism except their arbitrary negations.

There is nothing more wonderful than a book. It may be a message to us from the dead, from human sou...

Sometimes I lie awake at night and I ask, "Is life a multiple choice test or is it a true or false t...

I've developed a new philosophy - I only dread one day at a time.

Winning isn’t everything, but losing isn’t anything.

It is the man of science, eager to have his every opinion regenerated, his every idea rationalized, ...

Upon this first, and in one sense this sole, rule of reason, that in order to learn you must desire ...

A true confession: I believe in a soluble fish.

I don't think the real America is in New York or on the Pacific Coast; personally, I like the Middle...

Religion is a totalitarian belief. It is the wish to be a slave. It is the desire that there be an u...

One of the great questions of philosophy is, do we innately have morality, or do we get it from cele...

In an average day, you may well be confronted with some species of bullying or bigotry, or some ill-...

In one way, I suppose, I have been "in denial" for some time, knowingly burning the candle at both e...

Perhaps not one religion contains all of the truth of the world. Perhaps every religion contains fra...

As far as I am concerned, philosophic questioning is just as likely to make you confused and depress...

You think maybe if you just work harder and faster, you can hold off the chaos, but then one day you...

This is your life, and its ending one minute at a time.

Ignorance and fanaticism is ever busy and needs feeding. Always it is feeding and gloating for more.

Oh, but to reach silence, what a huge effort of voice. My voice is the way I go seek reality; realit...

Oh, don't pull your hand away from me, I've promised myself that maybe by the end of this impossible...

I sometimes think," said Jason, " that the soul may be a state of mind.

We are the inheritors of a wonderful world, a beautiful world, full of life and mystery, goodness an...

If your desire is for good, the people will be good.

He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.

Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.

The gentleman understands what is moral. The small man understands what is profitable.

Nothing is more visible than things hidden; Nothing is more manifest than things minute; Therefore, ...

It is when those who are not strong enough have made some moderate amount of progress that they fail...

The priest therefore saw what the anchorite could not. That God needs no witness. Neither to himself...

We’re beings toward death, we’re … two-legged, linguistically-conscious creatures born between urine...

The insufferable arrogance of human beings to think that Nature was made solely for their benefit, a...

A pessimist is a man who tells the truth prematurely.

We love ourselves notwithstanding our faults, and we ought to love our friends in like manner.

You cannot be buried in obscurity: you are exposed upon a grand theater to the view of the world. If...

All men have their frailties; and whoever looks for a friend without imperfections, will never find ...

It's no good trying to get rid of your own aloneness. You've got to stick to it all your life. Only ...

A woman has to live her life, or live to repent not having lived it.

The living self has one purpose only: to come into its own fullness of being.

'Freedom from fear' could be said to sum up the whole philosophy of human rights.

It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy...

you can measure the size of a person by what makes him or her angry

Scientific advancement carries risk,” Kohler argued. “It always has. Space programs, genetic researc...

Secrets,” Kohler finally said, “are a luxury we can no longer afford.

We are creators, and yet we naively play the role of "the created." We see ourselves as helpless she...

There is no need to search; achievement leads to nowhere. It makes no difference at all, so just be ...

...he asked, "Where are you today, right now?"Eagerly, I started talking about myself. However, I no...

The world's a puzzle; no need to make sense out of it." - Socrates

It's a thought," I said with a grin."That's exactly what it is, Dan - a thought - no more real than ...

There are no ordinary moments.

The journey is what brings us happiness not the destination.

There is no philosophy which is not founded upon knowledge of the phenomena, but to get any profit f...

Human consciousness is just about the last surviving mystery. A mystery is a phenomenon that people ...

Even a feeble-minded man wants to be like other men.A child may not know how to feed itself, or what...

I don’t know what’s worse: to not know what you are and be happy, or to become what you’ve always wa...

If you don't want anyone to know about your existence, you might as well kill yourself. You're takin...

... science demands a terrible price - that we accept what experiments tell us about the universe, w...

Moderation is based on the idea that things do not fit neatly together. Politics is likely to be a c...

When you're in the muck you can only see muck. If you somehow manage to float above it, you still se...

Since I see technology as being an extension of the human body, it's inevitable that it should come ...

Everything takes time. Bees have to move very fast to stay still.

We are all dying to give our lives away to something, maybe. God or Satan, politics or grammar, topo...

It's always seemed a little preposterous that Hamlet, for all his paralyzing doubt about everything,...

This is why they started us here so young: to give ourselves away before the age when the questions ...

It is hard to be angry when one has seen the sun rise,' she said.It seems to be true,' he admitted. ...

I think I exist, therefore I exist. I think.

Thomas Jefferson, that owner of many slaves, chose to begin the Declaration of Independence by direc...

At this point we can finally see what's really at stake in our peculiar habit of defining ourselves ...

If disaster, so be it, they said to themselves. There was nothing to be done except what could be do...

Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions, and can never pretend to any other office...

Be a philosopher but amid all your philosophy be still a man.

Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions.

Should a traveler, returning from a far country, bring us an account of men wholly different from an...

Generally speaking, the errors in religion are dangerous; those in philosophy only ridiculous.

Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions, and can never pretend to any other office...

There are instances, indeed, wherein men shew a vanity in resembling a great man in his countenance,...

It is impossible for us to think of any thing, which we have not antecedently felt, either by our ex...

There is no method of reasoning more common, and yet none more blameable, than, in philosophical dis...

Indulge your passion for science…but let your science be human, and such as may have a direct refere...

A man who has cured himself of all ridiculous prepossessions, and is fully, sincerely, and steadily ...