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"Philosophy is written in this grand book - I mean the Universe - which stands continually open to our gaze, but it cannot be understood unless one first learns to comprehend the language and interpret the characters in which it is written. It is written in the language of mathematics, and its characters are triangles, circles and other geometrical figures, without which it is humanly impossible to understand a single word of it." Galileo Galilei 4.090909090909091 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"No sooner do we depart from sense and instinct to follow reason but we are insensibly drawn into uncouth paradoxes, difficulties, and inconsistencies, which multiply and grow upon us as we advance in speculation; till at length, having wandered through many intricate mazes, we find ourselves just where we were, or, which is worse, sit down in a forlorn scepticism." George Berkeley 3.6666666666666665 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"To be a philosopher is not merely to have subtle thoughts; but so to love wisdom as to live according to its dictates." Henry Thoreau 2.6666666666666665 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"Philosophy consists very largely of one philosopher arguing that all others are jackasses. He usually proves it, and I should add that he also usually proves that he is one himself." Henry Mencken 4.25 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"The philosophy of one century is the common sense of the next." Henry Ward Beecher 4.75 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"Why is it that you physicists always require so much expensive equipment? Now the Department of Mathematics requires nothing but money for paper, pencils, and erasers...and the Department of Philosophy is better still. It doesn't even ask for erasers." Isaac Asimov 4.194444444444445 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"Philosophy is to the real world as masturbation is to sex." Karl Marx 4.488372093023256 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"In the very books in which philosophers bid us scorn fame, they inscribe their names." Marcus Tullius Cicero 3.25 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"There is nothing so absurd but some philosopher has said it." Marcus Tullius Cicero 4 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"The only secure knowledge is that I exist." Rene Descartes 4.6875 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"Being a philosopher, I have a problem for every solution." Robert Zend 4.714285714285714 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"Never judge a philosophy by its abuse." Saint Augustine 4.7272727272727275 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"An unexamined life is not worth living." Socrates 4.560669456066946 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"My advice to you is to get married. If you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not you'll become a philosopher." Socrates 4.785714285714286 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"My goal is simple. It is a complete understanding of the universe, why it is as it is and why it exists at all." Stephen Hawking 4.428571428571429 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"We can only reason from what is; we can reason on actualities, but not on possibilities." Thomas Paine 4 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote


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