Quotes About Philosophy

And here I want to interject and say that Heidegger is an absolute occasionalist and has no theory of time despite "time" being included in the title Being and Time

If, of course, to serial and redescription you add… how would I put it, punctual? …Or the key with which they maintain their subsistence. And in that sense serial redescription seems to be a very good definition for the social sciences as well as for philosophy. We accompany the task of the entities in their survival, so to speak, and their maintaining their subsistence in a very, very practical manner.

epistemological disaster

I didn't feel that way about it. I had been playing with death for some time. I can't say we were the best of friends but we were well acquainted.

Zašto juriti po tragovima onoga što je ve? završeno? Majstor i Margarita

What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing. — Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan

Inquiry doesn't have a motive. It doesn't teach a philosophy. It's just investigation.

I wasn't always able to live the advice that I so generously held out for others to live. When I realized this, I found myself on equal ground with the people I had judged. I saw that my philosophy wasn't so easy for any of us to live. I saw that we're all doing the best we can.

Intellectuals are rebels, not revolutionaries.

Absurdity, only you are pure.

Mechanics is a means or discipline for the realization of life, but not life itself. It ought to carry us to life itself.

man is, truly, an animal, / and yet, on turning round, he hits me in the head with his sadness

Quamquam scripsit artem rhetorieam Cleanthes, Chrysippus etiam, sed sic, ut si quis obmutescere concupierit, nihil aliud legere debeat.

C. Rajagopalachari

The Church, like the monarchy, was a valuable bastion of defense against the dangerous alliance of atheistical philosophy with political radicalism. The Bible taught the poorer orders that their lowly path had been allotted to them by the hand of God, and the Church was there to make quite certain they understood that.

understand what Ernest Becker meant when he said something like 'To live fully is to live with an awareness of the rumble of terror that underlies everything

I suppose regret is an expression of humanity. Without regret . . . where does that leave us?

Twentieth-century physics, going full circle back to Heracleitus, postulates that all matter is in motion. In other words, there is no thing, only energy.

All roads from Rousseau lead to Sade.

Every road from Rousseau leads to Sade.

idealism, however sabotaged by untidy reality, is a fundamental human value that separates us from the animal realm.

Simply follow nature, Rousseau declares. Sade, laughing grimly, agrees.

Religion gives you a huge vision of the universe and human existence. If you take away religion, you have to replace it with something else. So today the educated class worships politics.

In a divine paradox, suffering is a gift, for it is through suffering that we become sacrificial, self-giving lovers of others and of God (Phil 1:29; 2 Tim 2:10-11).