Philosophy Quotes

"Man tends to increase at a rate that his means of subsistence cannot support."

"It seemed to me almost certain that if the Malthusian theory in regard to physical life were true, then it must be true also with regard to the moral and intellectual faculties of man."

"The more one thinks the more one finds that there is to think about."

"Nothing can be more impossible than to conceive that this immense multitude of men should be supported."

"It seems to me absurd to doubt that a man may be an ardent theist and an evolutionist."

"I cannot persuade myself that a beneficent and omnipotent God would have designedly created parasitic wasps with the express intention of their feeding within the living bodies of Caterpillars."

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

"Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one."

"The human mind is not capable of grasping the Universe."

"In nature's complexity lies the simplicity of fundamental truth."

"We should not impose unnecessary entities upon nature."

"Men were born to study philosophy and astronomy."

"The philosopher must not be afraid of being proved wrong by reality."

"If there were a world where nothing ever happened, there would be nothing to perceive."

"Human beings are not machines, and I don't think we should treat them like machines."

"I have always been passionately interested in matters of the mind and spirit."

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

"It is impossible to suggest a mechanism without it being wrong."

"The bug is that we should not try to reduce human behavior to mechanism."

"Thinking is not having in your mind a picture or belief."

"Most of the effort goes into what might be called thinking."

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

"Everything that's interesting about human nature can be brought down to physics."

"The individual is ephemeral, races and nations come and pass away, but man remains."

"Throughout space there is energy. Is this energy static or kinetic? If static our hopes of the hereafter for it cannot supply motive power."

"A male mind is driven by lust and the desire to procreate, making clear thinking difficult."

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

"We are all connected; I knew this since I was very young."

"In many respects, the life of the mind is a reflection of the life of the body."

"For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction."