Quotes About Philosophy

Knowledge of what? If, as Epicurus insisted, the what is unknowable, Walt's knowledge is a personal gnosis, in which the knower himself is known by whatever can be known.

There are no hard distinctions between what is real and what is unreal, nor between what is true and what is false. A thing is not necessarily either true or false; it can be both true and false. I believe that these assertions still make sense and do still apply to the exploration of reality through art. So as a writer I stand by them but as a citizen I cannot. As a citizen I must ask: What is true? What is false?

Intellectual arses wobble the best.

Philosophy is a process of inquiry only. It doesn't attempt to find specific answers to specific questions.

There are just some kind of men who're so busy worrying about the next world they've never learned to live in this one.

Now, at this very minute, a political philosophy foreign to it is being pressed on the South, and the South's not ready for it—we're finding ourselves in the same deep waters. As sure as time, history is repeating itself, and as sure as man is man, history is the last place he'll look for his lessons. I hope to God it'll be a comparatively bloodless Reconstruction this time.

Now thenm Scout,' said her uncle. 'Now, at this very minute, a political philosophy foreign to it is being pressed on the South, and the South's not ready for it---we're finding ourselves in the same deep waters. As sure as time, history is repeating itself, and as sure as man is man, history is the last place he'll look for his lessons. I hopt to God it'll be a comparatively bloodless Reconstruction this time.

Bir cümleden s?fatlar? kald?r?rsak geriye gerçekler kal?r.

There are just some kind of men who – who're so busy worrying about the next world they've never learned to live in this one

There are just some men who -- who're so busy worrying about the next world they've never learned to live in this one [...]

Exista un soi de oameni care ... se gindesc atit de mult la lumea cealalta, incit n-ajung niciodata sa invete cum sa traiasca in lumea asta.

There are just some kind of men who - who're so busy worrying about the next world they've never learned to live in this one

There are just some kind of men who- who're so busy worrying about the next world they've never learned to live in this one, and you can look down the street and see the results.

You have the power . . . to consider time everlasting, to think of the swift change in the parts of each thing, of how brief is the span from birth until dissolution, and how the void before birth and the void beyond dissolution are equally infinite.

The point is rather that, so far as Wittgenstein can see, Pascal offers a description of a certain state of affairs without genuinely submitting to the constraints which the endeavor to provide an accurate representation of reality imposes. Her fault is not that she fails to get things right, but that she is not even trying.

Harry G. Frankfurt

from a moral point of view, economic equality does not really matter very much, and our moral and political concepts may be better focused on ensuring that people have enough.

The doctrines of egalitarianism and of sufficiency are logically independent: considerations that support the one cannot be presumed to provide support also for the other.

Taking crazy things seriously is a serious waste of time.

I can bear any pain as long as it has meaning.

If you think God's there, He is. If you don't, He isn't. And if that's what God's like, I wouldn't worry about it.

But if something did happen, it happened. Whether it's right or wrong. I accept everything that happens, and that's how I became the person I am now.

Don't pointless things have a place, too, in this far-from-perfect world? Remove everything pointless from an imperfect life, and it'd lose even its imperfection.

Death is not the opposite of life but an innate part of it. By living our lives, we nurture death.