Erwin Schrodinger Quotes

Our epoch is a time of tragic collision between matter and spirit and of the downfall of the purely material world view.

There is no other life; life itself is only a vision and a dream for nothing exists but space and you. If there was an all-powerful God, he would have made all good, and no bad.

The illusion is we are only physical.

I've always noticed that if you speak the truth in a rather silly way nobody believes you.

All life is a dream, and all dreams are dreams.

When you leave off dreaming, the universe ceases to exist.

Life is but a dream for the dead.

Whatever can't be expressed might as well not exist.

The only difference between heaven and hell is believing a thought.

You don’t have a soul, so you can’t be baptized. All animals are like that. I think it’s unfair and sometimes I don’t believe it. After all, what would heaven be without birds or dogs or horses? And what about trees and flowers? They don’t have souls either. Does that mean heaven looks like a cement parking lot? I suppose this is what the nuns call a theological problem.

I speak French with timidity, and not flowingly--except when excited. When using that language I have often noticed that I have hardly ever been mistaken for a Frenchman, except, perhaps, by horses; never, I believe, by people.

...separation of the observer from the phenomenon to be observed is no longer possible.

You can't have a universe without the mind entering into it.

The final belief is to believe in a fiction, which you know to be a fiction, there being nothing else. The exquisite truth is to know that it is a fiction and that you believe in it willingly.

I am the same artist with the same nagging questions I had in my early 20's. What's real and what isn't? How do we tell what's real in our lives? How do we see things as they are? What is my role in life? If the Signature hadn't forced the issue by devoting its season to my plays, I could at least believe I had changed. Really, they're all the same! What is SIX DEGREES OF SEPARATION but THE HOUSE OF BLUE LEAVES with money?

I am interested in making up a good case for distortion, as I am coming to believe it is the only way to make people see.

Never worry about what you say to a man. They're so conceited that they never believe you mean it if it's unflattering.

Another problem of fragmentation is that thought divides itself from feeling and from the body. Thought is said to be the mind; we have the notion that it is something abstract or spiritual or immaterial. Then there is the body, which is very physical. And we have emotions, which are perhaps somewhere in between. The idea is that they are all different. That is, we think of them as different. And we experience them as different because we think of them as different.

I tell, therefore you are.

Pnin slowly walked under solemn pines. The sky was dying. He did not believe in an autocratic God. He did believe, dimly, in a democracy of ghosts. The souls of the dead, perhaps, formed committees, and these, in continuous session, attended the destinies of the quick.

There are times when I catch myself believing that there is such a thing as something; which is separate from something else.

I can believe things that are true and things that aren't true and I can believe things where nobody knows if they're true or not.

I'm very odd 'cause I think there's more than just a materialist planet, a materialist, reductionist planet.

Sometimes I believe that this less material life is our truer life, and that our vain presence on the terraqueous globe is itself the secondary or merely virtual phenomenon.

I believe in an individual soul which travels through eternity. This life is far from all there is--in fact, it is a minute part, simply an antechamber, a deciding place where we choose the light from the dark, where we come to know what we truly value.