Philosophy Quote by Isaac Newton — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.”

“Truth is ever to be found in the simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.”

“This most beautiful system of the sun, planets and comets, could only proceed from the counsel and dominion of an intelligent and powerful Being...”

“He who thinks half-heartedly will not believe in God; but he who really thinks has to believe in God.”

“Nature is pleased with simplicity. And nature is no dummy”

“Truth is the offspring of silence and meditation. I keep the subject constantly before me and wait 'til the first dawnings open slowly, by little and little, into a full and clear light.”

“Not only are there meaningless questions, but many of the problems with which the human intellect has tortured itself turn out to be only 'pseudo problems,' because they can be formulated only in terms of questions which are meaningless. Many of the traditional problems of philosophy, of religion, or of ethics, are of this character. Consider, for example, the problem of the freedom of the will. You maintain that you are free to take either the right- or the left-hand fork in the road. I defy you to set up a single objective criterion by which you can prove after you have made the turn that you might have made the other. The problem has no meaning in the sphere of objective activity; it only relates to my personal subjective feelings while making the decision.”

“In our country religion is not different from philosophy and religion & philosophy don’t differ from science.”

“Life is the greatest of all mysteries, and though I seek to solve its many riddles, my deepest fear is that I will succeed.”

“If you think life is magical or life is hard, either way you are right. Your thoughts are the source of reality.”

“When your tears become invisible, disappear”