philosophy Quotes

Truth, like light, blinds. Falsehood, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight that enhances every object.

The role of the intellectual cannot be to excuse the violence of one side and condemn that of the other.

We used to wonder where war lived, what it was that made it so vile. And now we realize that we know where it lives... inside ourselves.

One may say the eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility.

Only a philosophy of eternity, in the world today, could justify non-violence.

There is but one truly serious philosophical problem and that is suicide.

Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.

I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation and is but a reflection of human frailty.

The man of science is a poor philosopher.

As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.