All Quotes By Tag: Philosophy

“Grammar and ordinary language are bad guides to metaphysics. A great book might be written showing the influence of syntax on philosophy.”

“Besides our eyes, skin and the other senses through which we receive the shadows of the exterior reality, we have a ‘mental eye’ (intelligence) with which we can perceive reality as it is.”

“Between natural ability and education choose natural ability, as it will keep you happy and will fetch you the glory sooner.”

“A loud smile is often a fake laugh.”

“لو كان العقل على قدر كلام الرجل، لكان الثرثار أكبر الناس عقلاً، ولو كان العلم على قدر حفظ المسائل لكان التلميذ أوسع من أستاذه علماً، ولو كان الجاه على قدر الفضائل لما كان للأشرار نفوذ، ولو كان المال على قدر العقل لكان أغنى الناس الحكماء، وأفقر الناس السفهاء، ولو كان الخلود على قدر نفع الناس لما خلد السفاحون والطغاة وأكثر الملوك والزعماء.”

“It is curious that the human mind could blindly accept an infinite speed but had reservations to accept a finite one, simply because it was too large!”

“Life always involves some logic in its manifestations, and logic, as a rule, excludes the versatility of life from its considerations.”

“When we move, we are in a way de-structured by our movement toward something: we are both here and at the same time not here because we’re already in the process of going elsewhere, if you see what I mean. To stop de-structuring yourself, you have to stop moving altogether. Either you move and you’re no longer whole, or you’re whole and you can’t move.”

“When we say two bodies ‘touch’, what we mean (without knowing it) is that both electromagnetic fields are interacting to avoid physical interpenetration and … that happens well before subatomic particles touch!”

“Truth is not as pompous and romantic as myth … but it has the immeasurable value of being the Truth.”

“Who are you? No really. Way, way down deep. Who are you?”

“I started studying law, but this I could stand just for one semester. I couldn’t stand more. Then I studied languages and literature for two years. After two years I passed an examination with the result I have a teaching certificate for Latin and Hungarian for the lower classes of the gymnasium, for kids from 10 to 14. I never made use of this teaching certificate. And then I came to philosophy, physics, and mathematics. In fact, I came to mathematics indirectly. I was really more interested in physics and philosophy and thought about those. It is a little shortened but not quite wrong to say: I thought I am not good enough for physics and I am too good for philosophy. Mathematics is in between.”

“We may be living past and future lives at the same time we are living this one.”

“Subjectivity is strange to Science, while Relativity is an objective part of it.”

“Comprehending and knowing better and deeper are the best guarantees we can have to attain ideas and criteria of our own; i.e. to stop depending on what other people say. In summary, to be freer to choose our own path in life.”