Philosophy Quote by Lawrence Nault — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“Home is not walls, but the memories that outlast them.”

“The Earth doesn’t need saving. It needs remembering. We forgot we were part of it, not apart from it.”

“To walk among trees is to walk among elders who speak without sound.”

“Perfection isn't a thing, It is a moment. A very brief moment that in time, that is lost as the world and the universe continues to move around you. If we are going to reject solutions because they aren't perfect or come from imperfect people, then we will never move forward.”

“Progress without humility is just destruction in disguise.”

“The world does not need your certainty. It needs your willingness to stay, to change, to learn again.”

“But spontaneity is not by any means a blind, disorderly urge, a mere power of caprice. A philosophy restricted to the alternatives of conventional language has no way of conceiving an intelligence which does not work according to plan, according to a one-at-a-time order of thought. Yet the concrete evidence of such an intelligence is right to hand in our own thoughtlessly ordered bodies. For the Tao does not 'know' how it produces the universe just as we do not 'know' how we construct our brains.”

“even nursery tales only echo an almost pre-natal leap of interest and amazement. These tales say that apples were golden only to refresh the forgotten moment when we found that they were green. They make rivers run with wine only to make us remember, for one wild moment, that they run with water.”

“Kein Philosoph würde ein dickes Buch schreiben, wenn er im Vornherein wüsste, auf welche Weise er später zitiert werden wird.”

“I shall look at you out of the corner of my eye, and you will say nothing. Words are the source of misunderstandings.”

“Philosophy ... is a science, and as such has no articles of faith; accordingly, in it nothing can be assumed as existing except what is either positively given empirically, or demonstrated through indubitable conclusions.”