“Once you can accept the universe as matter expanding into nothing that is something, wearing stripes with plaid comes easy.”
More from Einstein on Philosophy
“A human being is a part of the whole, called by us "Universe", a part limited in time and space.”
“No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right a single experiment can prove me wrong.”
“Something deeply hidden had to be behind things.”
“Nationalism is an infantile sickness. It is the measles of the human race.”
Others on Philosophy
Ludwig Wittgenstein
22 quotes“I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.”
Christopher Hitchens
22 quotes“To the dumb question "Why me?" the cosmos barely bothers to return the reply: why not?”
Nietzsche
22 quotes“Glance into the world just as though time were gone: and everything crooked will become straight to you.”
Carl Jung
21 quotes“I simply believe that some part of the human Self or Soul is not subject to the laws of space and time.”
Immanuel Kant
20 quotes“An action, to have moral worth, must be done from duty.”
Heraclitus
19 quotes“Nothing endures but change.”
H. L. Mencken
17 quotes“A philosopher is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat that isn't there. A theologian is the man who finds...”
C.S. Lewis
15 quotes“For the Present is the point at which time touches eternity.”
Fyodor Dostoevsky
14 quotes“I am alone, I thought, and they are everybody.”
Samuel Beckett
14 quotes“We always find something, eh Didi, to let us think we exist?”
Napoleon
14 quotes“Circumstances-what are circumstances? I make circumstances.”
Charlotte Brontë
13 quotes“Beauty is given to dolls, majesty to haughty vixens, but mind, feeling, passion and the crowning grace of fortitude are...”