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The unexamined life is not worth living.
Socrates470–399 BCThe Apology of Socrates (399 BC)
Love, while always forgiving of imperfections and mistakes, can never cease to will their removal.
C. S. Lewis1898–1963
Aim at Heaven and you will get Earth thrown in. Aim at Earth and you get neither.
C. S. Lewis1898–1963Mere Christianity (1952), Book III, Chapter 10, “Hope”
- Theology
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.
Socrates470–399 BC
- Marriage
I’m a philosophy major. That means I can think deep thoughts about being unemployed.
Bruce Lee1940–1973
Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
Albert Einstein1879–1955Letter to Besso’s family (March 1955) following the death of Michele Besso, as quoted in Disturbing the Universe (1979) by Freeman Dyson Ch. 17 “A Distant Mirror”, p. 193
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 Hawking1942–2018
When I study philosophical works I feel I am swallowing something which I don’t have in my mouth.
Albert Einstein1879–1955
There is but one truly serious philosophical problem, and that is suicide. Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the fundamental question of philosophy.
Albert Camus1913–1960Absurdity and Suicide
You cannot go on ‘explaining away’ for ever: you will find that you have explained explanation itself away. You cannot go on ‘seeing through’ things for ever. The whole point of seeing through something is to see something through it.
C. S. Lewis1898–1963The Abolition of Man
Other than heaven, the only place where one’s heart is completely safe from the dangers of love is hell.
C. S. Lewis1898–1963
- Theology
You don’t have a Soul. You are a Soul. You have a body.
?UnattributedOften credited to C. S. Lewis
- Theology
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 Galilei1564–1642
Philosophy is to the real world as masturbation is to sex.
Karl Marx1818–1883
Philosophy is questions that may never be answered. Religion is answers that may never be questioned.
?UnattributedIn Daniel Dennett, Breaking the Spell (US: Viking, 2006), p. 17
- Anti-Religion