Quotes About Philosophy

The production philosophy pioneered by Toyota calls for a focus on those activities that create value for the customer and the systematic eradication of everything else.

The notion that he can accomplish a huge amount with a larger time frame, if he is steady about it, is fundamentally his philosophy.

Win did not glance in Myron's direction. He looked out as though posing for a park statue. "I was just thinking," Win said. "What?" "If you clone yourself, and then have sex with yourself, is it incest or masturbation?" Win. "Good to see you're not wasting your time," Myron said. Win looked at him. "If we were still at Duke," he said, "we'd probably discuss the dilemma for hours.

It's too hard for people to accept. The weak-minded invent invisible gods and gardens and reunions in paradise. Or some. like you, won't buy unto that nonsense, but it's still too painful to admit the truth. So you come up with this 'how can we know?' rationale.

Occam's Razor. My father had often repeated that one to me. Occam's Razor states the following: "Other things being equal, a simpler explanation is better than a more complex one." Put more succinctly, the simplest answer was usually the best one. So

Occam's razor. It states - that the simplest explanation is usually the right one.

He sat alone at the kitchen table of his empty house. This was not the life he'd planned. Man plans, God laughs. He shook his head. Truer words. Enough

Posing the question: does the god of love use underarm deodorant, vaginal spray and fluoride toothpaste?

Humor should not be dissected because nothing lives through dissection.

Mark Twain said, "If one truly believes there is an all-powerful Deity, and one looks around at the condition of the universe, one is led inescapably to the conclusion that God is a malign thug." That's the quote that caused me to write "The Deathbird." It's a puzzle I cannot reason out.

Socrates, in Plato, formulates ideas of order: the Iliad, like Shakespeare, knows that a violent disorder is a great order.

Wallace) Stevens turns to the idea of the weather precisely as the religious idea turns to the idea of God.

The aesthetic and the agonistic are one, according to the ancient Greeks.

The originals are not original, but that Emersonian irony yield to the Emersonian pragmatism that the inventor knows how to borrow.

Nietzsche tended to equate the memorable with the painful.

No , no I'm not an atheist . it's no fun being an atheist .

The James family, raised by their Emersonian father, accepted their heritage, with reservations by Henry yet fewer by William.

Walter Pater defined Romanticism as adding strangeness to beauty.

Dante subsumed everything, and so, in a sense, secularized nothing.

But Hamlet is death's ambassador while Falstaff is the embassy of life.

Nossos atuais neo-historicistas, com sua curiosa mistura de Foucault e Marx, são apenas um episódio bem menor na interminável história do platonismo. Platão esperava, banindo o poeta, banir também o tirano. Banir Shakespeare, ou antes reduzi-lo a seus contextos, não vai livrar-nos de nossos tiranos.

that the aesthetic is irreducible to ideology or to metaphysics

Emerson, a shrewder prophet [than Freud], could have told Freud that psychoanalysis was another form of the triumph of literary culture over science, as well as over religion and philosophy.

follow Nietzsche, who warned us that what we can find words for is already dead in our hearts, so that there is always a kind of contempt in the act of speaking.