philosophy

"I'm probably 20 percent atheist and 80 percent agnostic. I don't think anyone really knows. You'll either find out or not when you get there, until then there's no point thinking about it."

"♫ I learned a lesson today: never judge a person by the way they act, nor how they dress, or the way they have their disabilities. Because everyone on Earth suffers the same hell, whether in love or hate, life or death."

"Words do not express thoughts very well; every thing immediately becomes a little different, a little distorted, a little foolish. And yet it also pleases me and seems right that what is of value and wisdom of one man seems nonsense to another."

"Remain true to yourself, child. If you know your own heart, you will always have one friend who does not lie."

"We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men."

"Every man knows that he will die: and nobody believes it. On that paradox stand not only a host of religions but the entity of a sane being."

"You asked me how to get out of the finite dimensions when I feel like it. I certainly don't use logic when I do it. Logic's the first thing you have to get rid of."

"Don't think, but look! (PI 66)"

"Tis the wink of an eye, 'tis the draught of a breath,From the blossom of health to the paleness of death,From the gilded saloon to the bier and the shroud-Oh! why should the spirit of mortal be proud?"

"Molecules dissolve and pass away, but consciousness survives the death of the matter on which it rides."

"No passion is stronger in the breast of a man than the desire to make others believe as he believes. Nothing so cuts at the root of his happiness and fills him with rage as the sense that another rates low what he prizes high."

"Every strike brings me closer to the next home run."

"لو قال كل إنسان ما يفكر فيه بصدق فإن الحوار بين البشر يصبح قصيراً جداً."

"To stay or to go, it amounted to the same thing."

"Your love is the best tincture; it can heal my soul."

"The illness of a doctor is always worse than the illnesses of his patients.The patients only feel, but the doctor, as well as feeling, has a pretty good idea of the destructive effect of the disease on his constitution.This is a case in which knowledge brings death nearer."

"Our eyes see only that which language can explain, but our hearts see that which is invisible and unexplainable."

"The Human Race Pleasure is the sprint.Contentment is the 5 mile.Happiness is the marathon."

"You have to let go better to embrace the best."

"And although I have seen nothing but black crows in my life, it doesn't mean that there's no such thing as a white crow. Both for a philosopher and for a scientist it can be important not to reject the possibility of finding a white crow. You might almost say that hunting for 'the white crow' is science's principal task."