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Philosophy Quotes
"The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth."
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"Pray frequently as you read [the Bible] and you will discover a fellowship with God."
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"Movie and television stars lay down the law offashions, manners, speech, and even moral behavior. It has been proven that a movie or a television program can brainwash."
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"I mistrust all systematizers and avoid them. the will to a system is a lack of integrity."
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"[The devil] always sends errors into the world in pairs--pairs of opposites. And he always encourages us to spend a lot of time thinking which is the worse. You see why, of course? He relies on your extra dislike of the one error to draw you gradually into the opposite one."
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"Before the seventeenth century, a child passed directly into the adult world between the ages of five and seven . . . then came the industrial revolution . . .so the child-centered home was born."
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"The Bible is God's book of promises, and, unlike the books of men, it does not change or get out of date."
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"It has been said that the great events of the world take place in the brain.It is in the brain, and the brain only, that the great sins of the world take place also."
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"I have a horror of people who speak about the beautiful. What is the beautiful? One must speak of problems in painting!"
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"But I'll tell you what hermits realize. If you go off into a far, far forest and get very quiet, you'll come to understand that you're connected with everything."
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"Every philosophy is tinged with the coloring of some secret imaginative background, which never emerges explicitly into its train of reasoning."
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"As the new spirituality begins to become the pervasive spirituality of the planet, we'll find that we have abandoned our philosophy of contradictions in which we say we're all one but continue to try to win."
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"My pitching philosophy is simple - keep the ball way from the bat."
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"Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse."
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"If our condition were truly happy, we would not seek diversion from it in order to make ourselves happy."
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"You may give them your love but not your thougts, For they have their own thoughts. You may house their bodies but not their souls, For their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams."
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"My philosophy is to make things that are important and to do them right."
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"They who assert that a blind fatality produced the various effects we behold in this world talk very absurdly; for can anything be more unreasonable than to pretend that a blind fatality could be productive of intelligent beings?"
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"My philosophy? Simplicity plus variety."
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"It is unfair to attribute virtues beyond a person's true character."
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"If we expect to "know the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth, we may have a hard time seeing the whole picture, since the truth is a willful construction that allows us often merely to "guess. ['Hinter der Mattscheibe']"
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"Dreams are things from the past. They aren't from the future. That wasn't you imprisoned there. You imprison your dreams. You understand?Yeah, I'd say. But I wasn't convinced."
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"The only certainty in life is that it is uncertain."
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"Our perception is only but a vivid imagination of our thoughts."
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"We have been trying to solve every ill of society as though society were made up of regenerate men to whom we had an obligationto speak with Christian advice."
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"Energy defines life not flesh and blood. WE are infinite energies experiencing infinity. Through a finite aperture."
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"No book dropped from "up there". If it did, you say, then something is screwed up somewhere between your neck, and the top of your head."
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"The illusion, as ego suggests, is that it's about time - mechanical mind; it is not. It is, however, all about conscious space - something [the] soul has always known."
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"He was a dreamer, a thinker, a speculative philosopher... or, as his wife would have it, an idiot."
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"Everything should be made as simple as possible ... but not simpler."
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"It's too late to change the world, but, hopefully it's not too late to change ourselves."
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"The major religions on the Earth contradict each other left and right. You can't all be correct. And what if all of you are wrong? It's a possibility, you know. You must care about the truth, right? Well, the way to winnow through all the differing contentions is to be skeptical. I'm not any more skeptical about your religious beliefs than I am about every new scientific idea I hear about. But in my line of work, they're called hypotheses, not inspiration and not revelation."
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"Perhaps it's impossible to wear an identity without becoming what you pretend to be."
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"That bodies should be lent us, while they can afford us pleasure, assist us in acquiring knowledge, or doing good to our fellow creatures, is a kind and benevolent act of God - when they become unfit for these purposes and afford us pain instead of pleasure-instead of an aid, become an encumbrance and answer none of the intentions for which they were given, it is equally kind and benevolent that a way is provided by which we may get rid of them. Death is that way."
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"People pontificate, "Suicide is selfishness." Career churchmen like Pater go a step further and call in a cowardly assault on the living. Oafs argue this specious line for varying reason: to evade fingers of blame, to impress one's audience with one's mental fiber, to vent anger, or just because one lacks the necessary suffering to sympathize. Cowardice is nothing to do with it - suicide takes considerable courage. Japanese have the right idea. No, what's selfish is to demand another to endure an intolerable existence, just to spare families, friends, and enemies a bit of soul-searching."
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"And some scientists and other intellectuals are convinced-too eagerly in my view-that the question of God's existence belongs in the forever inaccessible PAP category. From this, as we shall see, they often make the illogical deduction that the hypothesis of God's existence, and the hypothesis of his non-existence, have exactly equal probability of being right."
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"Are these things really better than the things I already have? Or am I just trained to be dissatisfied with what I have now?"
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"Truth is my weapon. Knowledge is my armor. Wisdom is my strategist. Love is my warrior."
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"The key point about life is that in the end nothing really matters."
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"So," said the Russian, after regaining is composure, "the lesson of the model is that the universe--all its matter and forms of energy--arise out of thought."
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"If nothing else, there's comfort in recognising that no matter how much we fail and sin, death will limit our suffering."
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"In a universe in which past, present, and future came into existence all at once, complete from beginning to end, with all possible outcomes of every life woven through the tapestry, there is no chance, only choice, no luck, but only consequences."
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"The missing piece in his stomach hurt so much-and eventually he stopped thinking about the Theorem and wondered only how something that isn't there can hurt you."
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"If emptiness is empty, how can something be borne or awaken from it?"
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"There was no black or white. Someone who had been good her entire life could, in fact, do something evil. People were just as capable of committing murder, under the right circumstances, as any monster."
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"We each come to create the reality we believe we deserve."
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"Doubt: How can I know? Truth: How can you not?"
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