Philosophy Quotes

"Life is a journey, not a destination."

"The true test of civilization is not the census nor the size of cities, but the kind of man the country turns out."

"The deaf understand sign language as easily as the hearing understand speech. Both are equally valid forms of communication."

"The true wealth of nations is not their gold or land, but the minds of their people."

"Many of us are living lives as hollow as the clouds that pass over our heads."

"Self-interest is a very poor motive for anything."

"Anything that looks good must be good for something."

"We are not truly civilized if we concern ourselves only with the relation of man to man. What of man's relation to the earth and all its creatures?"

"The 'control of nature' is a phrase conceived in arrogance when it was supposed that we had dominion over all things on this earth."

"Man cannot occupy any position in the universe except that which he is fitted for."

"The modern world worships the gods of speed and efficiency, but these gods are cruel masters."

"If man is to survive, these problems must be resolved; if civilization is to be worthy of the name, it must transcend itself."

"If we poison the sources of life itself, what difference does it make how comfortable our lives have become?"

"I am always more interested in how a person thinks than in what he thinks - for the methods of thought determine the limits of understanding."

"Pay attention to the little things; they often reveal the biggest truths."

"Technology should serve humanity, not control it."

"I believed in the equality of human potential."

"In repetition and pattern, we find the voice of creation."

"Life follows patterns, and patterns reveal the mind behind creation."

"In nature's laws we discover order; in order we discover mind."

"Life is not random; it follows patterns as old as the earth itself."

"What we call laws are simply nature's way of expressing its own logic."

"Heredity connects us to all that came before and all that will come after."

"To understand patterns is to understand the mind that thought them."

"We cannot demand that the computer should think like a human; we should demand that humans think like computers."

"The question 'can machines think' is in itself confused and meaningless."

"If a machine is expected to be infallible, it cannot also be intelligent."

"It is a fair question whether this sense data, unscrambled, still amounts to a thinking process."

"The science of statistics is not just a numerical science, it is a philosophical science."

"If we can explain all of human behaviour in terms of mechanics, then we have made the first step."