Quotes about Philosophy
The fifth regular solid must then, they thought, correspond to some fifth element that could only be the substance of the heavenly bodies.
- Carl Sagan
Our feeblest contemplations of the Cosmos stir us—there is a tingling in the spine, a catch in the voice, a faint sensation, as if a distant memory, of falling from a height. We know we are approaching the greatest of mysteries.
- Carl Sagan
How is it that hardly any major religion has looked at science and said, 'This is better than we thought! The universe is much bigger than our prophets said, grander, more subtle, more elegant. God must be even greater than we dreamed'?
- Carl Sagan
We are like butterflies, who flutter for a day and think it's forever.
- Carl Sagan
The electron is first of all your concept of the electron.
- Thich Nhat Hanh
Death is essential to making life possible. Death is transformation. Death is continuation. When we die, something else is born, even if it takes time to reveal itself or for us to be able to recognize it.
- Thich Nhat Hanh
Life is short; it must not be spent in endless metaphysical speculations which will not be able to bring us the Truth.
- Thich Nhat Hanh
The cry of revolt against such a god [a god which just affirms the world as it is] is nearer the truth than is the sophistry with which men attempt to justify him....
- Karl Barth
The task of the theologian is to explain everything through God, and to explain God as unexplainable.
- Karl Rahner
Never forget that there are only two philosophies to rule your life: the one of the cross, which starts with the fast and ends with the feast. The other of Satan, which starts with the feast and ends with the headache.
- Bishop Fulton J. Sheen
The formula "two and two make five" is not without its attractions.
- Fyodor Dostoevsky
There is nothing easier than lopping off heads and nothing harder than developing ideas.
- Fyodor Dostoevsky