All Quotes By Tag: Philosophy

“The trouble was that he was talking in philosophy but they were listening in gibberish.”

“Atheism is not a philosophy; it is not even a view of the world; it is simply an admission of the obvious. In fact, ‘atheism’ is a term that should not even exist. No one needs to identify himself as a ‘non-astrologer’ or a ‘non-alchemist.’ We do not have words for people who doubt that Elvis is still alive or that aliens have traversed the galaxy only to molest ranchers and cattle. Atheism is nothing more than the noises reasonable people make in the presence of unjustified religious beliefs.”

“It doesn’t seem to me that this fantastically marvelous universe, this tremendous range of time and space and different kinds of animals, and all the different planets, and all these atoms with all their motions, and so on, all this complicated thing can merely be a stage so that God can watch human beings struggle for good and evil – which is the view that religion has. The stage is too big for the drama.”

“Any war that requires the suspension of reason as a necessity for support is a bad war.”

“All sciences are vain and full of errors that are not born of Experience, the mother of all Knowledge.”

“What sort of philosophers are we, who know absolutely nothing of the origin and destiny of cats?”

“How small a thought it takes to fill a life.”

“Cats don’t need to be possessed; they’re evil on their own.”

“We’re built of contradictions, all of us. It’s those opposing forces that give us strength, like an arch, each block pressing the next. Give me a man whose parts are all aligned in agreement and I’ll show you madness. We walk a narrow path, insanity to each side. A man without contradictions to balance him will soon veer off.”

“The complexity of our present trouble suggests as never before that we need to change our present concept of education. Education is not properly an industry, and its proper use is not to serve industries, either by job-training or by industry-subsidized research. It’s proper use is to enable citizens to live lives that are economically, politically, socially, and culturally responsible. This cannot be done by gathering or “accessing” what we now call “information” – which is to say facts without context and therefore without priority. A proper education enables young people to put their lives in order, which means knowing what things are more important than other things; it means putting first things first.”

“To be evenminded is the greatest virtue.Wisdom is to speakthe truth and actin keeping with its nature.”

“…when dogma enters the brain, all intellectual activity ceases. ”

“I imagine that the intelligent people are the ones so intelligent that they don’t even need or want to look ‘intelligent’ anymore.”

“There isnt always an explanation for everything.”

“If an angelic being fell from the sky and tried to live in this world of ours I think even they would commit many wrongs.”