Philosophy Quotes
Sometimes an impossibility in fact is theoretically more interesting than a possibility in principle.
If life in itself were a valuable possession and decidedly preferable to non-existence, the gate need not be occupied by such terrible guards as death and its terrors. But who would persevere in life as it is, if death were less frightful? And who could even so much as endure the thought of death, if life were a joy?
Contradictions do not exist. Whenever you think that you are facing a contradiction, check your premises. You will find that one of them is wrong.
Leonardo`s Mona Lisa is just a thousand thousand smears of paint. Michelangelo`s David is just a million hits with a hammer. We`re all of us a million bits put together the right way.
The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody has decided not to see.
All you really need to know for the moment is that the universe is a lot more complicated than you might think, even if you start from a position of thinking it`s pretty damn complicated in the first place.
Bad is not an absolute, but a relative term. Ask the robber who used the cash he stole to feed his infant; the rapist who was sexually abused as a child; the kidnapper who truly believed he was saving a life. And just because you break the law doesn`t mean you have intentionally crossed the line into evil. Sometimes the line creeps up on you, and before you know it, you`re standing on the other side.
To choose doubt as a philosophy of life is akin to choosing immobility as a means of transportation.
You couldn`t have strength without weakness, you couldn`t have light without dark, you couldn`t have love without loss.
I started my life with a single absolute: that the world was mine to shape in the image of my highest values and never to be given up to a lesser standard, no matter how long or hard the struggle.
Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality.