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“I regard consciousness as fundamental. I regard matter as derivative from consciousness. We cannot get behind consciousness. Everything that we talk about, everything that we regard as existing, postulates consciousness.”
(Max Planck, the theoretical physicist who originated quantum theory, which won him the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1918)
“The stream of knowledge is heading toward a non-mechanical reality; the universe begins to look more like a great thought than like a great machine. Mind no longer appears to be an accidental intruder into the realm of matter, we ought rather hail it as the creator and governor of the realm of matter. Get over it, and accept the inarguable conclusion. The universe is immaterial-mental and spiritual". (Pioneering physicist Sir James Jeans).
“I do not believe in mathematics”. Albert Einstein
“Scientific theories cannot be deduced by purely mathematical reasoning.”
(Steven Weinberg, To Explain the World: The Discovery of Modern Science)
“The progress of science has been largely a matter of discovering what questions should be asked.”
(Steven Weinberg, To Explain the World: The Discovery of Modern Science)
Everything we call real is made of things that cannot be regarded as real.” (Niels Bohr - Particle & Quantum physicist.)
“If you want to know the secrets of the universe, think in terms of energy, frequency and vibration.”
(Nikola Tesla - Inventor / engineer.)
“It was not possible to formulate the laws of quantum mechanics in a fully consistent way without reference to consciousness.”
(Eugene Wigner, theoretical physicist and mathematician)
“We are what we think. All that we are, arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts we make the world.”
(Gautama Buddha)
A fundamental conclusion of the new physics also acknowledges that the observer creates the reality. As observers, we are personally involved with the creation of our own reality. Physicists are being forced to admit that the universe is a “mental” construction. (RC Henry, professor of physics and astronomy at Johns Hopkins University)
​CLASSICAL QUOTES
“The unexamined life is not worth living” – Socrates
“Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent” – Ludwig Wittgenstein
“Entities should not be multiplied unnecessarily” – William of Ockham
“The life of man (in a state of nature) is solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short” – Thomas Hobbes
“I think therefore I am” (“Cogito, ergo sum”) – René Descartes
“He who thinks great thoughts, often makes great errors” – Martin Heidegger
“We live in the best of all possible worlds” – Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
“What is rational is actual and what is actual is rational” – G. W. F. Hegel
“God is dead! He remains dead! And we have killed him.” – Friedrich Nietzsche
“There is but one truly serious philosophical problem, and that is suicide” – Albert Camus
“One cannot step twice in the same river” – Heraclitus
“The greatest happiness of the greatest number is the foundation of morals and legislation” – Jeremy Bentham
“To be is to be perceived” (“Esse est percipi”)– Bishop George Berkeley
“Happiness is not an ideal of reason but of imagination” – Immanuel Kant
“No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience” – John Locke
“God is not willing to do everything, and thus take away our free will and that share of glory which belongs to us” – Niccolo Machiavelli
“Liberty consists in doing what one desires” – John Stuart Mill
“It is undesirable to believe a proposition when there is no ground whatever for supposing it true” – Bertrand Russell
“Even while they teach, men learn” – Seneca the Younger
“There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance” – Socrates
“If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him” – Voltaire
“This is patently absurd; but whoever wishes to become a philosopher must learn not to be frightened by absurdities” – Bertrand Russell
“One cannot conceive anything so strange and so implausible that it has not already been said by one philosopher or another” – René Descartes
“Leisure is the mother of philosophy” – Thomas Hobbes
“Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language” – Ludwig Wittgenstein
“There is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers” – William James
“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit” – Aristotle
“Only one man ever understood me, and he didn’t understand me” – G. W. F. Hegel
“The mind is furnished with ideas by experience alone” – John Locke
“Life must be understood backward. But it must be lived forward ” – Søren Kierkegaard
“Science is what you know. Philosophy is what you don't know” – Bertrand Russell
“Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck” – Immanuel Kant
“Philosophy is at once the most sublime and the most trivial of human pursuits” – William James
“History is Philosophy teaching by examples” – Thucydides
“He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god” – Aristotle
“You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation” – Plato
“Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly” – Francis Bacon
“All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing” – mistakenly attributed to Edmund Burke
“Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?” – Friedrich Nietzsche
“I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong” – Bertrand Russell
“Religion is the sign of the oppressed ... it is the opium of the people” – Karl Marx
“Happiness is the highest good” – Aristotle
“If men were born free, they would, so long as they remained free, form no conception of good and evil” – Baruch Spinoza
“The greater the difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it” – Epicurus
“Whatever is reasonable is true, and whatever is true is reasonable” – G. W. F. Hegel
“Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but of how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness” – Immanuel Kant
“Man is condemned to be free” – Jean-Paul Sartre
“It is one thing to show a man that he is in error, and another to put him in possession of truth” – John Locke
“I don’t know why we are here, but I’m pretty sure it is not in order to enjoy ourselves” – Ludwig Wittgenstein
“That man is wisest who, like Socrates, realizes that his wisdom is worthless” – Plato
“The only thing I know is that I know nothing” – Socrates
“All is for the best in the best of all possible worlds” – Voltaire (in parody of Leibniz)
“The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays” – Søren Kierkegaard
“Man is born free, but is everywhere in chains” – Jean-Jacques Rousseau
“Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest” – Denis Diderot
“If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things” – René Descartes
“Happiness lies in virtuous activity, and perfect happiness lies in the best activity, which is contemplative” – Aristotle
“I can control my passions and emotions if I can understand their nature” – Spinoza
​“Philosophers have hitherto only interpreted the world in various ways; the point, however, is to change it” – Karl Marx
“It is wrong always, everywhere and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence” – W. K. Clifford
“Virtue is nothing else than right reason” – Seneca the Younger
“Freedom is secured not by the fulfilling of one's desires, but by the removal of desire” – Epictetus
“In everything, there is a share of everything” – Anaxagoras
“A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism; but depth in philosophy bringeth men’s minds about to religion” – Sir Francis Bacon
“The brave man is he who overcomes not only his enemies but his pleasures” – Democritus
“Good and evil, reward and punishment, are the only motives to a rational creature” – John Locke
“To do as one would be done by, and to love one's neighbor as oneself, constitute the ideal perfection of utilitarian morality” – John Stuart Mill
“Everything that exists is born for no reason, carries on living through weakness, and dies by accident” – Jean-Paul Sartre
“Man is the measure of all things” – Protagoras
“We are too weak to discover the truth by reason alone” – St. Augustine
“The mind is furnished with ideas by experience alone” – John Locke
HUMEROUS QUOTES
"But enough about me. Let's talk about you. What do you think of me?" Bette Midler
Never put off till tomorrow what you can put off till the day after tomorrow. Mark Twain
"It's easier to put on slippers than to carpet the whole world."
Al Franken
"Of all the 36 alternatives, running away is best." Chinese Proverb
"Be yourself, is about the worst advice you can give to some people".
Tom Masson
"If you want people to think you're wise, just agree with them."
Leo Roston
"The longer the title, the less important is the job." George Mcgovern
"Failure is the only thing I have ever been successful at." Bob Hope
"The average person thinks he isn't". Larry Lorenzoni
"Love conquers all things, except poverty and toothache". Mae West
"Not everybody hates me. Only the people who have met me".
Emo Philips
"We are all worms. But I do believe that I am a Glow-worm."
Winston Churchill
"No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating just one peanut". Channing Pollock
"People in a temper often say a lot of things that they really mean". Penelope Gilliat
"If the universe is expanding, why can I never find a parking space?" Woody Allen
"Only two things are infinite. The universe and human stupidity - and I'm not sure about the former." Albert Einstein
Scientists have discovered a noise that was made at the moment of the Big Bang that sounds something like - 'oops'!" Cully Abrell
"I worry about scientists discovering that lettuce is actually fattening". Erma Bombeck
"The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are made up entirely of lost airline baggage." Mar Russell
"It's a good thing we have gravity, otherwise when birds die they would just stay up there". Steve Wright
"Giving money and power to politicians is like giving whiskey and car keys to 15 year old boys". P.J. O'Rourke
"War doesn't determine who's right - only who's left". Bertrand Russell
"The quickest way to make a million is to start your own religion".
L. Ron Hubbard
"After death, everyone smells the same". Italian proverb
"I started out with nothing and I've still got most of it left".
Groucho Marx
"All the world's a stage and most of us are desperately unrehearsed". Sean O' Casey
"The world is like a safe, to which there is a key, but the key is locked inside the safe"' Peter De Vries
"Life is a cement trampoline". Harold Nordberg
"Life is a whim of several billion atoms who decide to be you for a while". Anon
"People will believe anything if you whisper it". Karl Kraus
"Give a man a fish and he'll eat for a day. Give a man a religion and he'll starve to death while praying for a fish". Timothy Jones
"If there is such a thing as reincarnation, knowing my luck, I'll come back as me". Rodney Trotter (TV show - Only Fools and Horses)
"If triangles invented god, he would have 3 sides".
Baron De Montequieu
"I will live forever - or die trying". Joseph Heller
"Maybe this world is another world's hell". Aldous Huxley
"Good health is merely the slowest possible rate at which one can die". Martin Fischer
"Never go to a doctor whos office plants have died". Erma Bombek
"Reality is just a crutch for people who can't cope with drugs".
Lily Tomlin
"Alcohol is a misunderstood vitamin". P. G. Wodehouse
"Why is it that all the things I enjoy eating have been proven to cause tumours in white mice?" Robert Benchley
"Health food makes me feel sick!" Calvin Trillin
"I am not a vegetarian because I love animals, I am a vegetarian because I hate plants". A. W. Brown
"My idea of excersize is a good brisk sit down". Phyllis Diller
"Did anyone ever have a boring dream?" Ralph Hodgson
"The older you get, the better you get - unless you're a banana".
Ross Noble
"Death: To stop sinning suddenly". Elbert Hubbard
"Suicide is a person's way of telling god - you can't fire me, I quit!"
Bill Maher
"Common sense is not so common". Voltaire
"I'm a misunderstood genius. Nobody understands that I'm a genius". Calvin and Hobbes
"A philosopher is a blind man in a dark cellar at midnight, looking for a black cat that isn't there". Anon
"Honesty is the best policy, but insanity is a better defence".
Steve Landesberg
"We are all born mad. Some remain so"'. Samuel Beckett
"I'm in therapy now. I used to be in denial - which was a lot cheaper!"' Robin Greenspan
"Of all the things I've ever lost, the thing I miss most is my mind"
Mark Twain
"One psychiatrist I know uses shock treatment. He gives you his bill in advance". Harry Hershfield
"The early bird may catch the worm, but it's the second mouse that gets the cheese". John Hammond
"Sometimes I lie awake at night and think 'where have I gone wrong?' - and a voice says to me 'this is going to take more than one night to answer'". Charlie Brown
"Everything was going just right for him - and then he was born". Victor Borge
"If it weren't for bad luck - I wouldn't have any luck at all".
Dick Gregory
"We must believe in luck - for how else can we explain the success of those we don't like?" Jean Cocteau
"I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally". W. C. Fields
"Lead me not into temptation. I can find the way myself".
Rita Mae Brown
"Happiness is the agreeable sensation which arises from contemplating the misery of others". Ambrose Bierce
"Some cause happiness wherever they go - others, whenever they go". Oscar Wilde
"Society drives people crazy with lust and calls it advertising".
John Lahr
"I don't necessarily agree with everything I say". Marshall Mcluhan
"Resentment is like taking poison and waiting for the other person to die". Malachy McCourt
"I have won every argument I have ever had with myself".
William Feather
"I used to be indecisive - but now I'm not so sure". Boscoe Pertwee
"If only I had a little humility, I'd be perfect". Ted Turner
"My dad used to say 'Always fight fire with fire' - that's probably why he was thrown out of the fire brigade". Harry Hill
"All I ever wanted was an honest week's pay for an honest day's work". Sergeant Bilko (TV character)
"He did nothing in particular, but he didi it very well". W. S. Gilbert
"The trouble with the 'rat race' is that even if you win - you're still a rat". Lily Tomlin
"If at first you don't succeed - cheat!" Red Buttons
"I'd kill for a Nobel Peace Prize". Denis Leary
"How beautiful it is to do nothing - and then rest afterwards"'
Spanish proverb
"In order to look as though the music you are playing is difficult - make faces" Vladimir Horowitz
"A song always contains words too stupid to be spoken"
Pierre De Beaumarchais
"I always read the last page of a book first, so that if I die before I finish, I will know how it turned out". Nora Ephron