Philosophy Quotes

"He hoped and prayed that there wasn't an afterlife. Then he realized there was a contradiction involved here and merely hoped that there wasn't an afterlife." "For instance, on the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much—the wheel, New York, wars and so on—whilst all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man—for precisely the same reasons." "There is another theory which states that this has already happened." "A lot of truth is said in jest" "To be free, you had not only to escape from a rope or a chain. You had to escape from a way of thinking because freedom was not about taking off your chains." "Man is the storytelling animal." "Look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Try to make sense of what you see, and wonder about what makes the universe exist. Be curious." "The opposite of a fact is falsehood, but the opposite of one profound truth may very well be another profound truth." "It is not clear that intelligence has any long-term survival value." "The universe is not indifferent to our existence - it depends on it." "The only truth lies in learning to free ourselves from insane passion for the truth." "To be really positive and to be cruel at the same time is a terrible thing, luckily, it is impossible to do both. " "What is love? Love is the opposite of fear." "True learning must not be content with ideas, which are, in fact, signs, but must discover things in their individual truth." "Real magic lies not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes." "The purpose of life is to find our gift. The meaning of life is to give it away." "The demand for certainty is one which is natural to man, but is nevertheless an intellectual vice." "In all chaos there is a cosmos in all disorder a secret order" "As far as we can discern the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being" "Mistakes are after all the foundations of truth and if a man does not know what a thing is it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not"