Quotes About Philosophy

The apparent effect of truth which operates in the sophism is in reality a quasi-juridical bond between a discursive event and a speaking subject. Hence the fact that we find two theses in the Sophists: Everything is true (as soon as you say something, that thing exists.). Nothing is true (whatever words you employ, they never express what exists).

Moreover, it is not entirely without significance that true love was, in Platonic philosophy -- but also, as you know, in a whole sector, a whole domain of Christian spirituality and mysticism -- the form par excellence of the true life. Since Platonism, true love and the true life have traditionally belonged together, and to a large extend Christian Platonism will take up this theme.

I had been mad enough to study reason; I was reasonable enough to study madness.

Modifying one's s own thought and that of others seems to me to be the intellectual's reason for being

soÌ"phrosyneÌ", el estado al que tendemos, mediante el ejercicio del autocontrol y mediante la moderación en la práctica de los placeres, está caracterizada como una libertad.

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Oh, you know, I don't believe that the problem of personal experience is so very important

Ahora bien, aquello sobre lo que Diotima y Sócrates se interrogan es el ser mismo de este amor, su naturaleza y su origen, aquello que constituye su fuerza y aquello que lo lleva con tal obstinación o con tal locura hacia su objeto: "¿Qué es el amor mismo, cuál es su naturaleza y, por consiguiente, cuáles son sus obras?".26

Mais surtout, alors qu'en 1955 Foucault confrontait finalement des « expériences de pensée », en 1966-1968 la terminologie sera celle des « discours » : ce sont les « mutations du discours philosophique » qui seront étudiées.

Truly to escape Hegel involves an exact appreciation of the price we have to pay to detach ourselves from him. It assumes that we are aware of the extent to which Hegel, insidiously perhaps, is close to us; it implies a knowledge, in that which permits us to think against Hegel, of that which remains Hegelian. We have to determine the extent to which our anti-Hegelianism is possibly one of his tricks directed against us, at the end of which he stands, motionless, waiting for us.

El uso de los placeres está consagrado a la forma en que la actividad sexual ha sido problematizada por los filósofos y los médicos, en la cultura griega clásica del siglo IV a.C.; La inquietud de sí está consagrado a esta problematización en los textos griegos y latinos de los dos primeros siglos de nuestra era; finalmente, Las confesiones de la carne* trata de la formación de la doctrina y de la pastoral de la carne.

in a classless society, I am not sure that we would still use this notion of justice

All the wisdom and reasoning in the world do in the end conclude in this point, to teach us not to fear to die.

only philosophy can go deep enough to show that literature goes still deeper than philosophy

Now it could be said that he who cheats and deceits does so because he wants to win. So the first attribute of God consists in being indifferent to winning. Detach yourself from notions of winning or losing, be indifferent to victory or loss, you will enter into science, observation, discovery and thought.

Why have these innovations not taken place? I hesitate to accuse philosophers (I consider myself to be one of them), although their vocation is to anticipate the knowledges and practices to come, and it seems to me that they have failed in this task. Preoccupied with day-to-day politics, they have not perceived the arrival of the contemporary.

Every abstract idea brings with it an immense economy of thought.

The care of the body, under the intelligent control of the mind, is an important branch of yogi philosophy, and is known as 'Hatha Yoga,' " Ramacharaka writes.

Do you think, said Will, gazing over the wall at the oak tree, do you think you can die of happiness?

As Sir William Osler once said, "The philosophies of one age have become the absurdities of the next, and the foolishness of yesterday has become the wisdom of tomorrow.

Einstein escreveu uma vez que acreditava no Deus de Espinoza que se revela a Si próprio na harmonia daquilo que existe, não num Deus que se preocupa com o destino e as acções dos homens

Consciousness determines existence.

My own emotional feeling is that life has a purpose—ultimately, I'd guess that the purpose it has is the purpose that we've given it and not a purpose that came out of any cosmic design.

As the great biologist Thomas H. Huxley said in 1863, "The question of all questions for humanity, the problem which lies behind all others and is more interesting than any of them, is that of the determination of man's place in Nature and his relation to the Cosmos.