Philosophy Quotes

"Nothing occurs in the world whose meaning is not that of some maximum or minimum."

"The laws of nature are but the mathematical thoughts of God."

"God does not play dice with the universe."

"In every person there is a universe; in every universe there is a person."

"The universe runs not by luck, but by law."

"Time and space are not prisons; they are the canvas of creation."

"The universe is a mirror; what you see depends on where you stand."

"Energy cannot be created or destroyed, only transformed."

"The laws of motion apply to the soul as much as to matter."

"In the silence between thoughts lies the greatest truth."

"Philosophy is the art of asking better questions about our own existence."

"Philosophy begins where comfort ends."

"We are not born; we are produced. Culture makes us what we are."

"We must learn to see the traces of the past in the present."

"We must reject the fiction of the stable self."

"To be alive is to be in dialogue with all those who came before."

"We are all ghosts in the machine of history."

"The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible."

"The effort to understand the universe is one of the very few things that lifts human life a little above the level of farce, and gives it some of the grace of tragedy."

"In order to be an immaculate member of a flock of sheep, one must above all be a sheep."

"If you wish to learn from the theoretical physicist anything about the methods which he uses, I would give you the following piece of advice: Don't listen to his words, fix your attention on his deeds."

"One cannot be deeply responsive to the world without being saddened very often."

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

"The individual is the expression of the cosmos."

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

"Where the present civilization stands, I am convinced that it is upon a false foundation."

"Our virtues and our failings are inseparable, like force and matter."

"My methods are really the expression of the same natural principles which I have observed in the construction of the universe."

"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 very essence of an instinct is that it's followed independently of reason."