Philosophy & Thought: Deep Quotes

"It was a place without a single feature of the space-time matrix that he knew. It was a place where nothing yet had happened - an utter emptiness. There was neither light nor dark: there was nothing here but emptiness"

Clifford D. Simak, Writer

"Well, I'll say I have an incredible ability to fantasize - I really do. I don't have to have things tangible to be able to see them, and therefore I enjoy so many things, because they're in my mind"

Donna Summer, Musician

"If you take myth and folklore, and these things that speak in symbols, they can be interpreted in so many ways that although the actual image is clear enough, the interpretation is infinitely blurred, a sort of enormous rainbow of every possible colour you could imagine"

Diana Wynne Jones, Writer

"You cannot watch yourself dispassionately"

Charlotte Rampling, Actress

"Actually, in the wild, we'd be the only person that we wouldn't recognize, if you think about it"

Diana Wynne Jones, Writer

"Human nature doesn't include all human beings. There are human beings who are indifferent to politics, religion, virtually anything"

Conor Cruise O'Brien, Politician

"All biologic phenomena act to adjust: there are no biologic actions other than adjustments. Adjustment is another name for Equilibrium. Equilibrium is the Universal, or that which has nothing external to derange it"

Charles Fort, Writer

"Man watches his history on the screen with apathy and an occasional passing flicker of horror or indignation"

Conor Cruise O'Brien, Politician

"There is, I conceive, no contradiction in believing that mind is at once the cause of matter and of the development of individualised human minds through the agency of matter"

Alfred Russel Wallace, Scientist

"Hell is indefinite"

Charles Williams, Editor

"Civilization, we shall find, like Universalism and Christianity, is anti evolutionary in its effects; it works against the laws and conditions which regulated the earlier stages of man's ascent"

Arthur Keith, Scientist

"It seems to me, thinking of it, that there must be some universal plan which set in motion the orbiting of the electrons about the nucleus and the slower, more majestic orbit of the galaxies about one another to the very edge of space"

Clifford D. Simak, Writer

"Do you not see with your own eyes the chrysalis fact assume by degrees the wings of fiction?"

Alfred de Vigny, Poet

"Man is a physical and spiritual epitome of the Universe"

Daniel D. Palmer, Celebrity

"A lot of people have this ego need that makes them want to believe that Earth is the center of the universe and humans are the most important species, the supreme expression of creation"

Ann Druyan, Writer

"That this individual life of all of us is not something limited in its temporal expression to the life that now we experience, follows from the very fact that here nothing final or individual is found expressed"

Josiah Royce, Philosopher

"So American culture is itself a hybrid and lends itself to use in other people's hybrids"

Todd Gitlin, Sociologist

"The other aspect of idealism is the one which gives us our notion of the absolute Self. To it the first is only preparatory. This second aspect is the one which from Kant, until the present time, has formed the deeper problem of thought"

Josiah Royce, Philosopher

"Human inertia makes the everyday environment, the furniture, as it were, appear to be a given"

Todd Gitlin, Sociologist

"Collectively, we are in thrall to media - because they deliver to us many of the psychic goods we crave, and we know no other way to live"

Todd Gitlin, Sociologist

"When I write down my thoughts, they do not escape me. This action makes me remember my strength, which I forget at all times. I educate myself proportionately to my captured thought. I aim only to distinguish the contradiction between my mind and nothingness"

Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont, Author

"I was much influenced by Jean-Paul Sartre"

Thom Gunn, Poet

"I think most men, heterosexual and homosexual, enjoy being considered sexual objects"

Thom Gunn, Poet

"I don't think of sex as a self-destructive impulse"

Thom Gunn, Poet

"I don't know how to sit outside myself and test against a hypothetical self who stayed home"

Thom Gunn, Poet

"Science sometimes falls short when trying to fathom the depths of our essence - and our inspiration comes from that essence"

Lance Secretan, Businessman

"We are all primary numbers divisible only by ourselves"

Jean Guitton, Philosopher

"The philosopher creates, he doesn't reflect"

Gilles Deleuze, Philosopher

"For myself, I do not now know in any concrete human terms wherein my individuality consists. In my present human form of consciousness I simply cannot tell"

Josiah Royce, Philosopher

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