Aristotle Quotes

I secretly think reality exists so we can speculate about it.

Nothing puzzles me more than the time and space; and yet nothing troubles me less.

Einstein said, if everything exists as a substance of qualities, and qualities exist only in mind, then all is mind.

I also believe that when one dies, one may wake up to the reality that proves that time does not exist.

The future and eternity are two entirely different things.

Pythagoras, when he was asked what time was, answered that it was the soul of this world.

The material universe exists only in the mind.

Metaphysical world.- It is true, there could be a metaphysical world; the absolute possibility of it is hardly to be disputed. We behold all things through the human head and cannot cut off this head; while the question nonetheless remains what of the world would still be there if one had cut it off.

I stick my finger into existence.. it smells of nothing. Where am I? Who am I? What is this thing called the world? What does this word mean?

It is not possible that we should remember that we existed before our body, for our can bear no trace of such existence, neither can eternity be defined in terms of time or have any relation to time. But notwithstanding, we feel and know that we are eternal.

Light is time thinking about itself.

Time and space are just projections of your consciousness.

The soul exists partly in eternity and partly in time.

Time is the element that controls the consciousness, the very being of the people.

The world is real. Consciousness is the illusion.

Our soul is cast into a body, where it finds number, time, dimension. Thereupon it reasons, and calls this nature necessity, and can believe nothing else.

Time is but the shadow of the world upon the background of Eternity.

Yet, the Universe is real enough to the conscious beings in it, which are as unreal as it is itself.

In my solitude I have pondered much on the incomprehensible subjects of space, eternity, life and death.

Life is but thought.

Nothing has existence unless you, I, or some living creature perceives it, and how it is perceived further influences that reality. Even time itself is not exempted from biocentrism.

I dream, therefore I exist.

I have wondered about time all my life.

Without consciousness, space and time are nothing.

Even the structure of the atom has been found by the mind. Therefore the mind is subtler than the atom. That which is behind the mind, namely the individual soul, is subtler than the mind.