Quotes About Philosophy

La vida no es sólo el corazón que late. Es también el pensamiento flotando sobre el corazón que ha dejado de latir.

The more I study religion," he wrote, "the more I am convinced that man never worshiped anyone but himself.

A day, an hour, of virtuous liberty Is worth a whole eternity in bondage.

When I read the epitaphs of the beautiful, every inordinate desire goes out;

Son conscientes las piezas del ajedrez de que todas sus acciones, todos sus triunfos y sus derrotas, nunca les han pertenecido?

Empiezo a preguntarme si no me habré equivocado contigo, lamentable criatura. Tienes que aprender que todo aquello que puede comprarse con una cierta cantidad de dinero no es realmente importante.

At twenty-five, Marion had already developed the philosophy to "take failure with my chin up and success, when it comes, in stride.

I'm not sure I agree with everything he says; but then I'm not sure I agree with everything I say.

Voltaire called the calculus "the Art of numbering and measuring exactly a Thing whose Existence cannot be conceived." See Letters Concerning the English Nation p. 152

The Greek thinkers was no way of bridging the gap between the rectilinear and the curvilinear which would at the same time satisfy their strict demands of mathematical rigor and appeal to the clear evidence of sensory experience.

Berkeley was unable to appreciate that mathematics was not concerned with a world of "real" sense impressions. In much the same manner today some philosophers criticize the mathematical conceptions of infinity and continuum, failing to realize that since mathematics deals with relations rather than with physical existence, its criterion of truth is inner consistency rather than plausibility in the light of sense perception of intuition.

Ever since the empirical mathematics of the pre-Hellenic world was developed, the attitude has, upon occasion, been maintained that mathematics is a branch either of empirical science of of transcendental philosophy. In either case mathematics is not free to develop as it will, but is bound by certain restrictions: by conceptions derived either a posteriori from natural science, or assumed to be imposed a priori by an absolutistic philosophy.

Materialistic and idealistic philosophies have both failed to appreciate the nature of mathematics, as accepted at the present time. Mathematics is neither a description of nature nor an explanation of its operation; it is not concerned with physical motion or with the metaphysical generation of quantities. It is merely the symbolic logic of possible relations, and as such is concerned with neither approximate nor absolute truth, but only with hypothetical truth.

Leibniz in this respect had perhaps even less caution than many of his contemporaries, for he seriously considered whether the infinite series 1 -1+1-1+... was equal to 1/2.

The danger of academic life, thought Wittgenstein, is that we are encouraged to go on talking even when we know in our hearts that we have nothing valuable to say.

We are led into philosophical confusion, thought Wittgenstein, by seeking explanations at times when we should instead simply stop and say, "This is how things are.

Man cannot stand a meaningless life.

I don't need to believe. I know (God exists).

Nothing that is good has come into the world without bringing a corresponding evil

YaÅŸam?m?n anlam?, yaÅŸam?n bana yönelttiÄŸi sorudad?r ya da tam tersi, ben kendim dünyaya yöneltilen bir soruyum ve yan?t?m? ona söylemezsem onun verdiÄŸi yan?ta baÄŸl? kalmak zorunda kal?r?m.

Lo bueno y lo malo están contenidos lógicamente en la naturaleza y en el fondo sólo son graduales diferencias a una misma cosa.

The pendulum of the mind oscillates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.

As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light of meaning in the darkness of mere being.

The greatest and most important problems of life are all in a certain sense insoluble. They can never be solved, but only outgrown.