Quotes About Philosophy

So we'll leave him [Plato] to the philosophers and not try to make a novelist of him against his will; he excluded innovative artists from his ideal republic, so we'll exclude him from our republic of fiction.

When I'm lying in my bed I think about life and I think about death and neither one particularly appeals to me.

I don't want to go on much longer, really. I think that would suggest a lack of imagination. A certain lack of dignity also.

Unele idei revin la via?? iar ?i iar, chiar dac? ar putea s? fie imposibil de confirmat vreodat?.

This man has conquered the world! What have you done?" The philosopher replied without an instant's hesitation, "I have conquered the need to conquer the world.

Had Stendhal believed in eternity? He had written that a person, no

Mae and Colleen worked for Silas Boone, and he kept a cheap house, preferring lots of custom over bored girls and empty rooms. 'Keep the boys coming back and the girls on their backs' was his motto. As a philosophy, it wasn't as spiritual as it was practical. Still, it served.

I'd think you'd be about tired of things happening," Silas grunted. Creed laughed. "When a man gets tired of things happening, he's tired of life, my friend. I ain't that far down the road just yet.

Epictetus was a living example of the Stoic philosophy he embraced, which placed great value on the dignity of the self and a graceful acquiescence to those things over which the self had no control.

We are disturbed not by events, but by the views which we take of them.' Is that not true, even of the death of loved ones?

Because, Lucius, without the discipline of philosophy to give rigour to their thinking, people can and will believe anything, no matter how absurd.

What would Apollonius of Tyana do?"—always his test for making a difficult decision—

Stoics like Marcus had long recommended such a practice—to concentrate entirely and exclusively on the present moment, and if that moment contained no physical suffering, then to be content.

Tell me, Philostratus, do you subscribe to the school of philosophy that holds mankind is in a state of continual decline, beginning with the supermen of a long-ago Golden Age and descending to the present, so that each generation is a little less hardy, a little less touched with the original fire of creation than the last, so that we dwindle in vigor and lifespan from father to son? In that case, I shall be lucky to live as long as Ã¢â'¬Â¦ as you.

Severus said to him, "I have been everything—and gained nothing." Everything and nothing: the remark had stopped Galen cold. In the end, did the material world and the realm of the senses amount to nothing, then? In the end, could it be that everything and nothing were the same?

My philosophy is that the most important aspect of any religion should be human kindness. And to try to ease the suffering of others. To try to bring light and love into the lives of mankind.

I have no fear of death. More important, I don't fear life.

Perhaps science was a retarded child because its parent was philosophy rather than engineering, because, we might say, it put Aristotle above Archimedes.

Maybe nature is fundamentally ugly, chaotic and complicated. But if it's like that, then I want out.

The proper measure of a philosophical system or a scientific theory is not the degree to which it anticipated modern thought, but its degree of success in treating the philosophical and scientific problems of its own day.

There is an important feature of modern science that is almost completely missing in all the thinkers I have mentioned, from Thales to Plato: none of them attempted to verify or even (aside perhaps from Zeno) seriously to justify their speculations. In

The value today of philosophy to physics seems to me to be something like the value of early nation-states to their peoples. It is only a small exaggeration to say that, until the introduction of the post office, the chief service of nation-states was to protect their peoples from other nation-states. The insights of philosophers have occasionally benefited physicists, but generally in a negative fashion—by protecting them from the preconceptions of other philosophers.

In a famous article,8 the physicist Eugene Wigner has written of "the unreasonable effectiveness of mathematics.

Descartes y Bacon son solo dos de los filósofos que a lo largo de los siglos intentaron formular reglas para la investigación científica, algo que nunca funciona. Aprendemos a practicar la ciencia no imponiendo reglas acerca de cómo practicarla, sino a partir de la experiencia de trabajar en ella, impulsados por la satisfacción que obtenemos cuando nuestros métodos consiguen explicar algo.