Quotes About Philosophy

The ultimate goal of farming is not the growing of crops, but the cultivation and perfection of human beings.

Before researchers become researches they should become philosophers.

I wonder how it is that people's philosophies have come to spin faster than the changing seasons.

bukannya teknik bertanam yang merupakan faktor yang paling penting, melainkan lebih kepada pikiran petaninya.

That's my Shinobi Way

La vie n'a aucun sens pourtant personne ne veut mourrir

a non-believing Jew may be counted as an adherent of Judaism so long as he does not identify himself with any other faith that conforms to his philosophical views.

He spent months explaining Nietzsche's concept of the Dionysian to Evgenia; she loved the idea of embracing chaos—it seemed the perfect antidote to the stifling regimented boredom that surrounded them.

I don't have to," replies the philosopher. "I only have to outrun you.")

Modern philosophers who aspire to rise above the sordid economic reality of the world would do well to recall that this trade made possible the cross-fertilisation of ideas that led to great discoveries.

All that determinists are asking you to accept is that there cannot be effect without cause.

story of a philosopher who runs when a bear charges him and his friend.

Thanks largely to Greenblatt's marvellous book The Swerve, I have only recently come to know Lucretius, and to appreciate the extent to which I am, and always have been without knowing it, a Lucretian/Epicurean.

Or, as one economist put it: 'The hippies were right all along'.

Life is not a having and a getting, but a being and a becoming.

Culture, the acquainting ourselves with the best that has been known and said in the world, and thus with the history of the human spirit.

He always came back to the belief that creeds, religious and otherwise, were for those who did not have sufficient internal more guidance.

There's an Oriental saying I like: "If aggression meets empty space it tends to defeat itself.

Philosophical theories can in this way become a destructive venture, confusing matters with false choices and sterile power schemes the cruel are only too happy to accept. In hostile hands, they become a pretext for doing nothing, for brushing off real and urgent moral duties in the care of animals.

Much as I admire anyone who bothers to take the matter seriously, some theorists, at least in their more abstract arguments, miss a crucial point by assuming that to be cared for, a creature must somehow be made our equal, which isn't even true in our human affairs, where often those we love most are the weak and vulnerable.

Just as in logic a thing cannot be and not be at the same time, in moral reasoning identical creatures cannot be worthy of moral consideration and unworthy of moral consideration; this dog or dolphin or elephant morally significant and those others are not.

to you, unknown corporeal interlocutor who I hope is just kind of out there somehow knowing my thoughts and undertaking your own heroic struggle against the exigencies of having a body made of a trillion cells each with a hungry mouth [...]

And the civil state is the actual state that results from the attempt to build a bridge from the state of nature to the state of reason. Its aim is to induce naturally rebarbative human beings to behave as if they were reasonable.

Of the many attributes that seem to mark America's founders as residents of a foreign time and place, probably none is more astonishing today than their unapologetic confidence in the power of books—and in particular the books of the philosophers. At