Belgian Philosopher Quotes

People are bewitched into believing that time slips away, and this belief is the basis of time actually slipping away.

To be conscious of one's weakness and to trust in God's help is the way to authentic strength and victory.

Alice von Hildebrand

I recall an incident involving the late George Stigler at a conference in Spain in the 1980s. Hearing that I had written a book on reason and natural law, Stigler started to ridicule reason, going so far as to say that there is as much reason in a monkey's antics as in any human act. At that point I asked him whether he was trying to tell me something about how he wrote his books; he gave me a blank stare and stormed out of the room.

Curiously, the unexpected complexity that has been discovered in nature has not led to a slowdown in the progress of science, but on the contrary to the emergence of new conceptual structures that now appear as essential to our understanding of the physical world - the world that includes us.

Isabelle Stengers