Energy is the inherent capacity of the universe to make matter exist.
The more I find life to be a great design, the more I suspect it to be singular in existence; the more I suspect it to be singular, the more I feel it to be specific and personal; the more I feel it to be personal, the more I think of it to be a mere question; And the more I think of it to be a question, the less I understand the questioner.
I know what the world exists for, but I know not how it came into existence. I see the design, but not the designer. I understand the question, but not the questioner.
God has created the world to play hide-and-seek with man.
I speculate that this is the best of all possible worlds, for philosophy is the best of humanity, and this world is the best philosophically.
God shall be my last discovery.
God is the only evil. His vanity made him the devil.
Certainty is the most vivid condition of ignorance and the most necessay condition for knowledge.
Whenever God looks devilish, I see the philosopher fail.
Philosophy is the only excuse God has for his cruelty and vanity.
A fundamental condition of Being is slavery. Man is the slave of God, and God that of His vanity.
The physics of the 21st century shall deal essentially with non-spatial matter and non-spatial mechanics.
For Man nothing is beyond doubt; for God everything is beyond doubt.
The worst of all superstitions may be that astrology is a superstition.
The existence of God is not logically necessary, and yet, on the basis of some profound peculiar empirical order in the universe, it seems that He exists as the ultimate uncreated Being, implying a paradox, as no logically unnecessary entity can be uncreated. This paradox is the ultimate question asked by God, who is nothing but the ultimate questioner.
Laugh and a moment will soon arrive when you cry.
The bushes of love are blossomed through the manure of hardship.
Every noble action is selfish. Some selfish actions are nobler than others. But they are all selfish. And as such there can be no action purely noble anyway. Even the nobility in God's great philosophical intentions is bounded by his vanity.
The blind cannot see the sun.
The question is how the questioner exists.
It is impossible to imagine existence void of any intelligence.
Meditation is the best engineering.
Expect of Man God, and he will appear to be a beast. Expect of Man a beast, and he will appear to be God.
Man is more social within than without.
My existence is such that "I" do not really exist. At the end of understanding so much I understand that I know nothing. I suffer for being surrounded by intense suffering and yet I'm deeply suspicious if first of all there is indeed any consciousness except me. I strive to find the artist who might have fathered this great universal art but feel myself to be too feeble to accomplish this seemingly unattainable mission. Yet I have every respect for life, and it is this sheer respect that makes me live.
Follow AzQuotes on Facebook, Twitter and Google+. Every day we present the best quotes! Improve yourself, find your inspiration, share with friends
or simply: