Illusion Quote by Gilles Deleuze

The service of philosophy, of speculative culture, towards the human spirit, is to rouse, to startle it to a life of constant and eager…

— Walter Pater

“These are but a few specimens of philosophy which is no longer conscious of its own intrinsic worth, and which sees no higher mission…

— Fulton J. Sheen

Our imagination is struck only by what is great; but the lover of natural philosophy should reflect equally on little things.

— Alexander von Humboldt

Note, to-day, an instructive, curious spectacle and conflict. Science, (twin, in its fields, of Democracy in its)—Science, testing absolutely all thoughts, all works, has…

— Walt Whitman

“Reality [...] at every level from photons to philosophical fancies to the consciousness of living organisms was fluid [...]. To break apart and confine…

— David Zindell

“Philosophy, as I shall understand the word, is something intermediate between theology and science. Like theology, it consists of speculations on matters as to…

— Bertrand Russell

“In the twentieth century nothing can better cure the anthropocentrism that is the author of all our ills than to cast ourselves into the…

— Julio Cortázar

“Mythology and religion are relevant and remarkable, as they each represent imaginative truths – projections of human beings innermost desires – intermixed with fragments…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

“Unceasingly we are bombarded with pseudo-realities. Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn’t go away.” —PHILIP K. DICK”

— Kurt Andersen

There is a ... matter - much more valuable and divine than natural philosophy . ... On this matter I must speak to you in enigmas.

— Plato

The mere man of pleasure is miserable in old age, and the mere drudge in business is but little better, whereas, natural philosophy, mathematical…

— Thomas Paine

“There is, it must be confessed, a curious fascination in hearing deep things talked about, even tho neither we nor the disputants understand them.…

— William James