Philosophy Quotes
Philosophy begins in wonder. And, at the end, when philosophic thought has done its best, the wonder remains.
When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.
The usual approach of science of constructing a mathematical model cannot answer the questions of why there should be a universe for the model to describe. Why does the universe go to all the bother of existing?
We cannot define anything precisely! If we attempt to, we get into that paralysis of thought that comes to philosophers, who sit opposite each other, one saying to the other "You don't know what you are talking about!" The second one says "What do you mean by know? What do you mean by talking? What do you mean by you?", and so on.
A philosopher is someone who says, "We know it`s possible in practice; we`re trying to work out if it`s possible in principle!"