It Philosophy Quotes
Do you believe we are masters of ourselves, or merely dance like puppets on strings having the illusion of independence?
We can't even resist making antimatter, so what makes you think we are going to leave cloning technology untapped? (Douglas Parsley)
The greatest discovery of the 21st century will be the discovery that Man was not meant to live at the speed of light.
You live in a deranged age - more deranged than usual, because despite great scientific and technological advances, man has not the faintest idea of who he is or what he is doing.
Who, cher monsieur, will sleep on the floor for us? Whether I am capable of it myself? Look, I'd like to be and I shall be. Yes, we shall all be capable of it one day, and that will be salvation.
We are preoccupied with time. If we could learn to love space as deeply as we are now obsessed with time, we might discover a new meaning in the phrase 'to live like men.
The story goes that one day Socrates stood gazing at a stall that sold allkinds of wares. Finally he said, “What a lot of things I don’t need!
The difference between a free human and a human is not the word "free" it's the word "human", because humanity can never be caged with the chains of slavery.
The history of modern philosophy is the history of losing and regaining the awareness of the fact that there is no third way between the Absolute and the absurd.
The meaning of life is basically to be the kind of person you would want to be around.
... things are the way they are in our universe because if they Weren't, we would not be here to notice.
Chaos is not the lack of order, it is merely the absence of order, that the observer is used to.
One can accomplish something only so long as one cannot accomplish everything.
I hate those Socratic dialogues where everything gets drawn out at the pace of an excessively logical snail.
The solution of logical problems must be neat for they set the standard of neatness.
It used to be said that God could create anything except what would be contrary to the laws of logic. The truth is that we could not say what an "illogical" world would look like.
There are no logical contradictions in the Christian faith. If there were even one logical contradiction at the center of the Christian faith, the Christian faith would be necessarily false.
If you play games with the law of non-contradiction, then every time you open your mouth and say anything, you're cheating. Every time you make a choice in life you're cheating.
A great deal of thought is only a substitute for the thoughts that the individual would really find useful at the time.
Paradoxes are less paradoxical in their reference to truth than most of the most plausible axioms.
Don't get involved in partial problems, but always take flight to where there is a free view over the whole single great problem, even if this view is still not a clear one
Buried deep within each one of us lies a treasure. It is our mission in this lifetime to find this treasure, but its exact location is known only by the dragon that guards it.
When someone is delusional, he or she can do anything to justify his or her beliefs.
... science demands a terrible price - that we accept what experiments tell us about the universe, whether we like it or not.
Be prepared to change yourself if you think there is a need to change your environment.
A genius is no more—and no less—than someone who insists on the truth, while others face the other way.
