Philosophy Quotes

"The universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we can suppose."

"The human capacity for self-deception is remarkable and dangerous."

"The Earth is a small stage in a vast cosmic arena."

"Humans are capable of both great compassion and great cruelty."

"Dogmatism and critical thinking are incompatible."

"Emotion and reason both play essential roles in human thought."

"Diversity of thought strengthens communities and societies."

"The cosmos invites us to think in terms of billions and billions."

"Our responsibilities extend beyond ourselves to all life."

"The most profound questions often have no simple answers."

"We are the universe made conscious of itself."

"The knowledge that all existence is sacred, is the basis of all morality."

"Each individual matters and contributes to the greater whole."

"We are all connected to each other and to nature."

"I go away, but the questions remain."

"The paradox is only a conflict between reality and your feeling of what reality ought to be."

"Everything we call real is made of things that cannot be regarded as real."

"The true paradox is this: the atoms or elementary particles themselves are not real; they form a world of potentialities."

"The separation of the world into subject and object, inner world and outer world, is no longer adequate."

"We are suspended in language in such a way that we cannot say what is up and what is down."

"The epistemological problem of what one means by physical reality plays a central role in all modern discussions on the foundations of physics."

"We must abandon the ideal of an objective description of nature separated from man."

"We are not merely passive observers of the world; our observations shape reality itself."

"The atoms or elementary particles are not real; they form a world of potentialities rather than of things or facts."

"The effort to understand the universe is one of the very few things that lifts human life a little above the level of farce."

"I have abandoned the search for truth and am now looking for a good theory."

"The universe rewards those who ask questions more carefully than those who accept answers blindly."

"We make up meanings because we are creatures that crave understanding."

"How is it that hardly any major religion has looked at science and concluded, 'This is better than we thought'?"

"We are products of the universe knowing itself."