philosophy

"Progress has always been achieved by probing well-entrenched and well-founded forms of life with unpopular and unfounded values. This is how man gradually freed himself from fear and from the tyranny of unexamined systems."

"Knowledge subverts love: in proportion as we penetrate our secrets, we come to loathe our kind, precisely because they resemble us."

"If you know that I am an unbeliever, then you know me better than I do myself. I may be an unbeliever, but I am an unbeliever who has a nostalgia for a belief."

"Together, "Light and Knowledge"are Inanimate, Intangible, and Inseparable."

"To be a philosopher, just reverse everything you have ever been told...and have a sense of humor doing it."

"The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty: not knowing what comes next."

"The words ‘I Love You’ kill, and resurrect millions, in less than a second."

"Even if there is only one possible unified theory, it is just a set of rules and equations. What is it that breathes fire into the equations and makes a universe for them to describe? The usual approach of science of constructing a mathematical model cannot answer the questions of why there should be a universe for the model to describe. Why does the universe go to all the bother of existing?"

"Are you not ashamed of caring so much for the making of money and for fame and prestige, when you neither think nor care about wisdom and truth and the improvement of your soul?"

"When you love yourself endlessly, you will find that the whole world loves you too."

"Say No to Drugs Commercials The image of an egg sizzling in a frying pan is not your brain on drugs.It's just a fucking omelet."

"Kim olursak olalım, dünyanın hangi yerinde yaşarsak yaşayalım, ta derinlerde bir yerde hepimiz bir eksiklik duygusu taşımaktayız. Sanki temel bir şeyimizi kaybetmişiz de geri alamamaktan korkuyoruz. Neyin eksik olduğunu bilenimizde hakikaten çok az."

"One must reach out and try to grasp this astonishing finesse, that the value of lif cannot be estimated."

"Call no man happy until he is dead."

"All things one has forgotten scream for help in dreams."

"If by any chance a playwright wishes to express a political opinion or a moral opinion or a philosophy, he must be a good enough craftsman to do it with so much spice of entertainment in it that the public get the message without being aware of it."

"Astonishment is the root of philosophy."

"Each day acquire something that will fortify you against poverty, against death, indeed against other misfortunes as well; and after you have run over many thoughts, select one to be thoroughly digested that day."

"Whatever their future, at the dawn of their lives, men seek a noble vision of man's nature and of life's potential."

"I failed many times, but I always found myself stronger and wiser."