392 Quotes About Theory

...the specious meditations, speculations, and theories of mankind are but a kind of insanity, only there is no one to stand by and observe it.

Theory is never so fine as when it takes the form of a fiction or a fable.

The wrong approaches to faith and to skepticism are equally detrimental to the path. For the former declares its answers too soon and is later found false; the latter rejects sound answers altogether and hashes itself useless.

Love is without a doubt the laziest theory for the meaning of life, but when it actually comes a time to do it we find just enough energy to over-complicate life again. Any devil can love, whom he himself sees as, a good person who has treated him well, but to love also the polar opposite is what separates love from fickle emotions.

And when were theories useless? I was a thinker, not a fighter, and the world was always in need of thoughts.

Life is a conspiracy theory.

What we have forgotten is that thoughts and words are conventions, and that it is fatal to take conventions too seriously. A convention is a social convenience, as, for example, money ... but it is absurd to take money too seriously, to confuse it with real wealth ... In somewhat the same way, thoughts, ideas and words are "coins" for real things.

The explanation given to any relation can survive and develop within a given society only if this explanation is stylized in conformity with the prevailing thought style.

Each failure is another step towards discovery.