“We demand rigidly defined areas of doubt and uncertainty!”
More from Douglas Adams on Philosophy
“In an infinite Universe anything can happen," said Ford, "Even survival. Strange but true.”
“Anything that thinks logically can be fooled by something else that thinks at least as logically as it does.”
“Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?”
“Aberystwyth (n.)A nostalgic yearning which is in itself more pleasant than the thing being yearned for.”
“If you try and take a cat apart to see how it works, the first thing you have on your hands is a non-working cat.”
“The impossible often has a kind of integrity to it which the merely improbable lacks.”
“Reality is frequently inaccurate.”
Others on Philosophy
Ludwig Wittgenstein
22 quotes“The logic of the world is prior to all truth and falsehood.”
Christopher Hitchens
22 quotes“How much vanity must be concealed – not too effectively at that – in order to pretend that one is the personal object of...”
Nietzsche
22 quotes“One does not hate as long as one has a low esteem of someone, but only when one esteems him as an equal or a superior.”
Carl Jung
21 quotes“The pendulum of the mind oscillates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.”
Immanuel Kant
20 quotes“Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.”
Heraclitus
19 quotes“All things flow nothing abides.”
H. L. Mencken
17 quotes“We are here and it is now. Further than that, all human knowledge is moonshine.”
C.S. Lewis
15 quotes“[Consciousness] is either inexplicable illusion, or else revelation.”
Fyodor Dostoevsky
14 quotes“Consciousness is man's greatest misfortune, still I know that man loves it and will not exchange it for any satisfaction...”
Samuel Beckett
14 quotes“The end is in the beginning and yet you go on.”
Napoleon
14 quotes“Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.”
Isaac Asimov
13 quotes“Society is much more easily soothed than one's own conscience.”