Philosophy Quotes

As a rule we disbelieve all the facts and theories for which we have no use.

William James

To teach how to live without certainty, and yet without being paralysed by hesitation, is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy, in our age, can still do for those who study it.

Bertrand Russell

Some things have to be believed to be seen.

Ralph Hodgson

Without the spiritual world the material world is a disheartening enigma.

Joseph Joubert

There is no heresy or no philosophy which is so abhorrent to my church as a human being.

James Joyce

The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil and no good, nothing but blind pitiless indifference.

Richard Dawkins

If there is mercy in nature, it is accidental. Nature is neither kind nor cruel but indifferent.

Richard Dawkins

Everything in the universe goes by indirection. There are no straight lines.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Science is what you know. Philosophy is what you don't know.

Bertrand Russell

We have to remember that what we observe is not nature herself, but nature exposed to our method of questioning.

Werner Heisenberg

No phenomenon is a real phenomenon until it is an observed phenomenon.

John Wheeler

The laws of nature may be operative up to a certain limit, beyond which they turn against themselves to give birth to the absurd.

Albert Camus

Anybody who gives you a belief system is your enemy, because the belief system becomes the barrier for your eyes, you cannot see the truth.

Osho

Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality.

Carl Sagan

What you don`t understand you can make mean anything.

Chuck Palahniuk