philosophy Quotes

Rather than say he's an atheist, a friend of mine says, 'I'm a tooth fairy agnostic,' meaning he can't disprove God but thinks God is about as likely as the tooth fairy.

My interest in biology was pretty much always on the philosophical side.

A good scientific theory is one which is falsifiable, which has not been falsified.

Grounded in the natural philosophy of the Middle Ages, alchemy formed a bridge: on the one hand into the past, to Gnosticism, and on the other into the future, to the modern psychology of the unconscious.

The words of truth are always paradoxical.

Man takes his law from the Earth; the Earth takes its law from Heaven; Heaven takes its law from the Tao. The law of the Tao is its being what it is.

It is far more difficult to murder a phantom than a reality.

Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.

The universe is transformation: life is opinion.

Life is neither good or evil, but only a place for good and evil.