Philosophy Quotes

"The less you think, the more you believe." "God exists, if only in the form of a meme with high survival value, or infective power, in the environment provided by human culture." "There is something very odd about the respect accorded to religion." "We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it." "We should make the most of life, enjoy it because that is the way it is" "I've always been fascinated by the concept of time and the different ways that it can be perceived" "Power is not a means it is an end" "You must understand that seeing is believing, but also know that believing is seeing" "Many people die at twenty-five and aren’t buried until they are seventy-five" "The soul in the body is like a bird in a cage" "For nothing is more unbearable, once one has it, than freedom." "The observer, when he seems to himself to be observing a stone, is really, if physics is to be believed, observing the effects of the stone upon himself" "It is undesirable to believe a proposition when there is no ground whatever for supposing it true" "Superstition is a great enemy of man, but bigotry is worse" "Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so" "To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom" "The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way" "A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other" "Have the courage to use your own understanding" "Idealism is the assertion that we have an absolute finite knowledge of the infinite whereas realism professes that the infinite is known to us only relatively and therefore must remain always a mystery to us"