Philosophy Quote by Werner Heisenberg — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“There are things that are so serious that you can only joke about them.”

“If we wanted to construct a basic philosophical attitude from these scientific utterances of”

“The positivists have a simple solution: the world must be divided into that which we can say clearly and the rest, which we had better pass over in silence. But can anyone conceive of a more pointless philosophy, seeing that what we can say clearly amounts to next to nothing? If we omitted all that is unclear, we would probably be left completely uninteresting and trivial tautologies.”

“My mind was formed by studying philosophy,”

“This causation exists as a streamed organization of constantly fluid potential. Anything that can be must first hold the streaming potential to be. It is soul.”

“Y ¿adónde encaminaría ahora mis pasos? A un tiempo y un mundo nuevos, a mi medida, donde no es necesario un amigo. Al paraíso de lo artificial.”

“It takes three to make love, not two: you, your spouse, and God. Without God people only succeed in bringing out the worst in one another. Lovers who have nothing else to do but love each other soon find there is nothing else. Without a central loyalty life is unfinished.”

“Where we choose to be, where we choose to be--we have the power to determine that in our lives. We cannot reel time backward or forward, but we can take ourselves to the place that defines our being.”

“He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason”

“Our knowledge of circumstances has increased, but our uncertainty, instead of having diminished, has only increased. The reason of this is, that we do not gain all our experience at once, but by degrees; so our determinations continue to be assailed incessantly by fresh experience; and the mind, if we may use the expression, must always be under arms.”