Philosophy Quotes

"Simplicity does not precede complexity but follows it."

"Keep asking why until you reach the fundamental laws of nature."

"The universe is a complex interplay of simple principles."

"The principle of science is that you do not know anything for sure."

"What makes us human is our moral conscience."

"The difference between humans and animals is that we have the ability to make moral choices."

"Progress is not about control and dominance, but about harmony and cooperation."

"The human mind tends to see what it expects to see."

"All are born alike, yet a few are born to be superior."

"Heaven and Earth are of one piece."

"The voice of reason is often quieted by the masses."

"Philosophy and science are sisters in the pursuit of eternal truth."

"The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane."

"What one man calls God, another calls the laws of physics."

"The human being is a self-propelled automaton entirely under the control of external influences."

"The distinction between the world of commerce and the world of pure science should be more clearly marked."

"Human beings are merely a vehicle for ideas."

"The universe is not hostile, nor is it friendly. It is indifferent."

"We should always be suspicious of those who claim to have the truth, and skeptical of those who claim certainty."

"We are the consciousness of the cosmos. This is our greatest privilege and our greatest burden."

"We are, in a very real sense, made of the cosmos. We are part of it."

"We are all sand and stardust – what matters is how we arrange it."

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

"As a man thinketh, so he is."

"All that matters is that atoms and the void."

"What we observe is not nature itself, but nature exposed to our method of questioning."

"To understand the universe, you must first understand yourself."

"The greatest journey is the journey within."

"We must acknowledge, as it seems to me, that man with all his noble qualities bears in his bodily frame the indelible stamp of his lowly origin."

"The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts."