philosophy Quotes

By all means, marry. If you get a good wife, you'll become happy; if you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.

To know, is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.

Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.

There is nothing so strange and so unbelievable that it has not been said by one philosopher or another.

The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.

If the cosmos isn't finite, then far, far away, floating duplicates of your brain - with all its experiences, thoughts, and emotions - are occasionally (and temporarily) thrown together by the random combining of atoms. Such 'Boltzmann brains,' as they're called, are a disturbing consequence of an unlimited universe.

I always wanted to put a sign up on the road to Yale saying, 'Beware: Deconstruction Ahead.'

Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal.

Reality is only a Rorschach ink-blot, you know.

If you study the writings of the mystics, you will always find things in them that appear to be paradoxes, as in Zen, particularly.