Quotes and Sayings about Philosophy

Philosophy is basically thinking about thinking. Which sounds like a waste of time, because it is.

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"Put more than one philosopher together and you'll birth an argument," Erlin commented. "A truism I've observed the world over. In fact, I once saw one argue with himself, it got quite violent in the end."

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Plato is my friend; Aristotle is my friend, but my greatest friend is truth.

Isaac Newton

Aristotle Plato Truth

Philosophy is dead. Scientists have become the bearers of the torch of discovery in our quest for knowledge.

Stephen Hawking - May 2011

Science

In philosophy if you aren't moving at a snail's pace you aren't moving at all.

Iris Murdoch

If you're concious, you exist. Philosophy Science 101 motherf*ckers.

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Plato is my friend; Aristotle is my friend, but my greatest friend is truth.

Isaac Newton

Truth

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Science without religion is lame. Religion without science is blind.

Albert Einstein

Religion Science

The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science. Whoever does not know it and can no longer wonder, no longer marvel, is as good as dead, and his eyes are dimmed.

Albert Einstein in The World As I See It

Art Science

The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.

Isaac Asimov

Knowledge Society Science Wisdom

We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us.

Albert Einstein

Nature & Environment Science

Since the mathematicians have invaded the theory of relativity, I do not understand it myself anymore.

Albert Einstein

Mathematics Science

The first gulp from the glass of natural sciences will turn you into an atheist, but at the bottom of the glass God is waiting for you.

Werner Heisenberg

Science Atheism

Faith and science, I have learned, are two sides of the same coin, separated by an expanse so small, but wide enough that one side can't see the other. They don't know they are connected.

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Faith Science

Every kid starts out as a natural-born scientist, and then we beat it out of them. A few trickle through the system with their wonder and enthusiasm for science intact.

Carl Sagan

Upbringing Science Curiosity

The task is not to see what has never been seen before, but to think what has never been thought before about what you see everyday.

Erwin Schrödinger

Science

Without proper experiments I conclude nothing.

Johannes Kepler

Science

To be a scientist is to be naive.

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Science

Waleri Legassow: "Despite the stupidity, the lies, you're compelled. The problem has been assigned and you'll stop at nothing until you find an answer. Because that is who you are."
Ulana Khomyuk: "A lunatic then."
Waleri Legassow: "A scientist."

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Science

Academic success depends on research and publications.

Philip Zimbardo

Science

People think of science as rolling back the mystery of God. I look at science as slowly creeping toward the mystery of God.

Allan Hamilton

God Science

The Germans and many others have the gift to make science inaccessible.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Germany Science

All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.

Galileo Galilei

Progress Truth Science

An adult scientist is a kid who never grew up.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

Children & Childhood Science

We build too many walls and not enough bridges.

Isaac Newton

Human Rights Freedom Brücken

I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people.

Isaac Newton

Humanity

Genius is patience.

Isaac Newton

Genius

Lies are comforting. Truth is painful.

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Lies Truth

Truth never wins, but its enemies cease to exist.

Max Planck

Truth

Which is worse: A lie that draws a smile or a truth that draws a tear?

Bryan Bedford in Miracle on 34th Street

Lies Truth

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

Love Soul Friendship

To appreciate the beauty of a snowflake it is necessary to stand out in the cold.

Aristotle

Snow Winter Coldness

It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.

Aristotle

Light Motivation

Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.

Plato

Humanity Desire Knowledge Feelings & Emotions

By playing for one hour, you can get to know someone better, than by talking for a year.

Plato

Playing

Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.

Plato

Learning

One downside of our big brains is we're the only creatures who are aware that death is inevitable. Although, if you lined ten dogs in a row and shot them one by one, the dog on the end would probably get the gist by about dog four.

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Brain

Cells couldn't multiply without this, the IKEA instruction manual for life, DNA. DNA is tiny yet comlex, like Tom Cruise.

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Tom Cruise

"Mercy is the sweetest wine and the bitterest wormwood," Eliss, the mother, said. "For it rewards the merciful and shames the guilty."

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Forgiveness & Mercy

Is a lie really a lie if it is honestly believed?

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Lies

War is always an adventure to those who've never seen it.

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War

A fool is any man who doesn't think he's a fool.

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Foolishness

The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.

Stephen Hawking

Knowledge Intelligence

Quiet people have the loudest minds.

Stephen Hawking

Intelligence Silence

Anything that consoles is fake.

Iris Murdoch

Comforting

Perhaps misguided moral passion is better than confused indifference.

Iris Murdoch

I am sorry on behalf of most, if not close to all, of Australia at this point. I'm sorry about Raygun and that we broke dancing.

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If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Garden Libraries

One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Friendship

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