Philosophy Quotes

"The great question which I have continually pondered is the nature of consciousness."

"Man tends to impose order upon things which are really quite chaotic in nature."

"It is those who have not reflected much upon these subjects who feel the need for a creator."

"Every action has an equal and opposite reaction—so too in life and human affairs."

"Words are merely shadows of ideas; ideas themselves are infinite."

"The spaces between things are as important as the things themselves."

"The pursuit of absolute certainty is the enemy of progress."

"The observer forever changes that which is observed."

"To understand motion is to understand life itself."

"The universe is both knowable and mysterious."

"To live without questioning is to exist without living."

"Philosophy begins with the simple question 'Why?' and never stops asking."

"Philosophy is the art of being confused at a higher level."

"One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane."

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

"Every form of inspiration is strictly a reduction of mind."

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

"I have come to the conclusion that I am not responsible for anything, and that I never was."

"The mind is everything. What you think you become."

"Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced."

"What does he know except that he knows nothing? Yet the Greeks did not do physics."

"The growth of scientific and technical civilization has not been accompanied by corresponding development in rationality, humaneness, and democratic institutions."

"The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions."

"They knew that it is the nature of reasoning to require examinations of any existing idea."

"Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze."

"We are all philosophers, though few know themselves to be so."

"Confusion of cause and effect is at the root of all philosophical error."

"All bodies are colored, but not all colors are bodies."

"Man's intellect is the nearest thing to divinity."

"To live without philosophizing is like walking with closed eyes."