philosophy Quotes

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.

Just as we might take Darwin as an example of the normal extraverted thinking type, the normal introverted thinking type could be represented by Kant. The one speaks with facts, the other relies on the subjective factor. Darwin ranges over the wide field of objective reality, Kant restricts himself to a critique of knowledge.

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.

The universal order and the personal order are nothing but different expressions and manifestations of a common underlying principle.

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