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Quote DB :: Philosophy Search in this category Theology (20) Sponsored Links Quote Author Rating Rate "Philosophy is written in this grand book - I mean the Universe - which stands continually open to our gaze, but it cannot be understood unless one first learns to comprehend the language and interpret the characters in which it is written. It is written in the language of mathematics, and its characters are triangles, circles and other geometrical figures, without which it is humanly impossible to understand a single word of it." Galileo Galilei "No sooner do we depart from sense and instinct to follow reason but we are insensibly drawn into uncouth paradoxes, difficulties, and inconsistencies, which multiply and grow upon us as we advance in speculation; till at length, having wandered through many intricate mazes, we find ourselves just where we were, or, which is worse, sit down in a forlorn scepticism." George Berkeley "To be a philosopher is not merely to have subtle thoughts; but so to love wisdom as to live according to its dictates." Henry Thoreau "Philosophy consists very largely of one philosopher arguing that all others are jackasses. He usually proves it, and I should add that he also usually proves that he is one himself." Henry Mencken "The philosophy of one century is the common sense of the next." Henry Ward Beecher "Why is it that you physicists always require so much expensive equipment? Now the Department of Mathematics requires nothing but money for paper, pencils, and erasers...and the Department of Philosophy is better still. It doesn't even ask for erasers." Isaac Asimov "Philosophy is to the real world as masturbation is to sex." Karl Marx "In the very books in which philosophers bid us scorn fame, they inscribe their names." Marcus Tullius Cicero "There is nothing so absurd but some philosopher has said it." Marcus Tullius Cicero "The only secure knowledge is that I exist." Rene Descartes "Being a philosopher, I have a problem for every solution." Robert Zend "Never judge a philosophy by its abuse." Saint Augustine "An unexamined life is not worth living." Socrates "My advice to you is to get married. If you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not you'll become a philosopher." Socrates "My goal is simple. It is a complete understanding of the universe, why it is as it is and why it exists at all." Stephen Hawking "We can only reason from what is; we can reason on actualities, but not on possibilities." Thomas Paine << Previous 1 2 Browse Philosophy quotes by Author: Albert Camus Albert Einstein Aldous Huxley Ambrose Bierce Aristotle Author Unknown Ayn Rand Bertrand Russell Blaise Pascal Bruce Lee C.S. Lewis Galileo Galilei George Berkeley Henry Mencken Henry Thoreau Henry Ward Beecher Isaac Asimov Karl Marx Marcus Tullius Cicero Rene Descartes Robert Zend Saint Augustine Socrates Stephen Hawking Thomas Paine

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