Quotes about Philosophy
What I want to know is whether God had any choice in the creation of the universe.
— Albert Einstein
How can it be that mathematics, being after all a product of human thought which is independent of experience, is so admirably appropriate to the objects of reality?
— Albert Einstein
Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.
— Albert Einstein
But the nature of the universe is such that the ends never justify the means. On the contrary, the means always determine the end.
— Aldous Huxley
He was a philosopher, if you know what that was.' 'A man who dreams of fewer things than there are in heaven and earth,' said the Savage promptly. 'Quite so…
— Aldous Huxley
Nothing — the only perfection, the only absolute. Infinite and eternal nothing.
— Aldous Huxley
Was and will make me ill, I take a gram and only am.
— Aldous Huxley
One entered the world, Denis pursued, having ready-made ideas about everything. One had a philosophy and tried to make life fit into it. One should have lived first and then made one's philosophy to fit life...Life, facts, things were horribly complicated; ideas, even the most difficult of them, deceptively simple. In the world of ideas, everything was clear; in life all was obscure, embroiled. Was it surprising that one was miserable, horribly unhappy?
— Aldous Huxley
A funny little literary article in the hand is worth at least three Critiques of Pure Reason in the bush.
— Aldous Huxley
Contemplatives are not likely to become gamblers, or procurers, or drunkards; they do not as a rule preach intolerance, or make war; do not find it necessary to rob, swindle or grind the faces of the poor.
— Aldous Huxley
Nature, or anything that reminds me of nature, disturbs me; it is too large, too complicated, above all too utterly pointless and incomprehensible.
— Aldous Huxley
After all, what is an individual?
— Aldous Huxley