Philosophy Quotes

"I think the universe is pure geometry - basically, a beautiful shape twisting around and dancing over space-time."

- Antony Garrett Lisi

"Space is to place as eternity is to time."

- Joseph Joubert

"There is a fifth dimension, beyond that which is known to man. It is a dimension as vast as space and as timeless as infinity. It is the middle ground between light and shadow, between science and superstition."

- Rod Serling

"The Universe is under no obligation to make sense to you."

- Neil deGrasse Tyson

"For the wise man looks into space and he knows there is no limited dimensions."

- Zhuangzi

"The universe is a pretty big place. If it’s just us, seems like an awful waste of space."

- Carl Sagan

"An army of principles can penetrate where an army of soldiers cannot."

- Thomas Paine

"Looking up into the night sky is looking into infinity-distance is incomprehensible and therefore meaningless."

- Douglas Adams

"Space or science fiction has become a dialect for our time."

- Doris Lessing

"In football, the result is an impostor. You can do things really, really well but not win. There's something greater than the result, more lasting - a legacy."

- Xavi

"The thing about football - the important thing about football - is that it is not just about football."

- Terry Pratchett

"In football everything is complicated by the presence of the opposite team."

- Jean-Paul Sartre

"I had been educated in the rhythms of the mountain, rhythms in which change was never fundamental, only cyclical. The same sun appeared each morning, swept over the valley, and dropped behind the peak. The snows that fell in winter always melted in the spring."

- Tara Westover

"Rebellion without truth is like spring in a bleak, arid desert."

- Kahlil Gibran

"Lovers of air travel find it exhilarating to hang poised between the illusion of immortality and the fact of death."

- Alexander Chase

"Both optimists and pessimists contribute to society. The optimist invents the aeroplane, the pessimist the parachute."

- George Bernard Shaw

"Sometimes, a defeat can be more beautiful and satisfying than certain victories. The English have a point in insisting that it matters not who won or lost, but how you played the game."

- Arthur Ashe

"Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple"

- Dr. Seuss

"Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic."

- Oscar Wilde

"Rules of taste enforce structures of power."

- Susan Sontag

"Styles may change, details may come and go, but the broad demands of aesthetic judgment are permanent."

- Roger Scruton

"What’s past is prologue."

- William Shakespeare

"The line of beauty is the line of beauty. It doesn't matter if it's been through the Xerox machine a hundred times."

- Donna Tart

"A countryman between two lawyers is like a fish between two cats."

- Benjamin Franklin

"There is, incidently, no way of talking about cats that enables one to come off as a sane person."

- Dan Greenberg

"Of all God's creatures, there is only one that cannot be made slave of the leash. That one is the cat. If man could be crossed with the cat it would improve the man, but it would deteriorate the cat."

- Mark Twain

"Why is it that showers and even storms seem to come by chance, so that many people think it quite natural to pray for rain or fine weather, though they would consider it ridiculous to ask for an eclipse by prayer?"

- Henri Poincaré

"There are no accidents."

- Kung Fu Panda

"There is no secret ingredient"

- Mr. Ping, Po's father

"Every takeoff is optional. Every landing is mandatory."