Quotes About Philosophy

Nevertheless, C retains the basic philosophy that programmers know what they are doing; it only requires that they state their intentions explicitly.

She also loved beautiful things, and seems to have embraced early a philosophy penned by the writer Toni Cade Bambara: "Beauty is care, just as ugly is carelessness.

These revolutions are born of hope, and their philosophies are formally optimistic.

Science fiction has a way of letting you talk about where we are in the world and letting you be a bit of a pop philosopher without being didactic.

I didn't understand how you could be an actor if you didn't also study philosophy and study political science, astronomy. And also just go out and live life and have experiences.

There's probably no god. Now stop worrying and enjoy your life.

A proposition, which is usually expressed in the form of a sentence, is a statement about reality that can be accepted or rejected.

Karl Marx had said, 'Give me twenty-six lead soldiers and I will conquer the world,' meaning of course the twenty-six letters of the alphabet.

Poetry proper is never merely a higher mode (melos) of everyday language. It is rather the reverse: everyday language is a forgotten and therefore used-up poem, from which there hardly resounds a call any longer. Martin Heidegger, 'Language

Things are the changeless mirror in which we watch ourselves disintegrate.

And the formation of man is the most pressing problem facing humanity.

The Bushmen, who walk distances across the Kalahari, have no idea of the soul's survival in another world. 'When we die, we die,' they say. 'The wind blows away our foot prints, and that is the end of us.' Sluggish and sedentary peoples, such as the Ancient Egyptians – with their concept of an afterlife journey through the Field of Reeds – project on to the next world the journeys they failed to make in this one.

G C Berkouwer is to be commended for his careful avoidance of the polarities of a mindless fideism and a faithless rationalism.

Desire is a remedy for anxiety," as Lacan says in Seminar VIII, 430).

I'm a philosophy major. That means I can think deep thoughts about being unemployed

Boards don't hit back, O'Hara

The usefulness of a cup is its emptiness.

Using no way as way

Using no way as a way, having no limitation as limitation.

The meaning of life is that it is to be lived, and it is not to be traded and conceptualized and squeezed into a patter of systems.

Boards don't hit back.

Obey the principles without being bound by them.

Using no way as way. Having no limitation as your only limitation.

The man who is really serious, with the urge to find out what truth is, has no style at all. He lives only in what is.