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

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

“Les hommes construisent trop de murs et pas assez de ponts.”

“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.”

“God who gave Animals self motion beyond our understanding is without doubt able to implant other principles of motion in bodies [which] we may understand as little. Some would readily grant this may be a Spiritual one; yet a mechanical one might be showne, did not I think it better to pass it by.”

“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.”

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

“From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back.”

“We are alone. Live our lives, lacking anything better to do. Devise reason later.”

“One has to seek out pleasurable sensations, in the absence of which blandness comes naturally. The upshot of this is that we must continually work at keeping suffering (including tedium) at bay, and we can do so only imperfectly. Dissatisfaction does and must pervade life. There are moments, perhaps even periods, of satisfaction, but they occur against a background of dissatisfied striving.”

“To will is to stir up paradoxes”

“According to the Buddha's teaching the beginning of the life-stream of living beings is unthinkable. THe believer in the creation of life by God may be astonished at this reply. But if you were to ask him 'What is the beginning of God?' he would answer without hesitation 'God has no beginning', and he is not astonished at his own reply.”

“Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless, like water. Be water, my friend.”