Quotes About Philosophy

history has shown that the removal of all restraints of reason and morality leads not to liberation but to fascism.

DevOps isn't about automation, just as astronomy isn't about telescopes.

History is replete with turning points. You must have faith that the universe will unfold as it should - Spock

We must question the story logic of having an all-knowing all-powerful God, who creates faulty Humans, and then blames them for his own mistakes.

PICARD: There is no greater challenge than the study of philosophy. WESLEY: But William James won't be in my Starfleet exams. PICARD: The important things never will be. Anyone can be trained in the mechanics of piloting a starship. WESLEY: But Starfleet Academy PICARD: It takes more. Open your mind to the past. Art, history, philosophy. And all this may mean something.

t is important to the typical 'Star Trek' fan that there is a tomorrow. They pretty much share the 'Star Trek' philosophies about life: the fact that it is wrong to interfere in the evolvement of other peoples, that to be different is not necessarily to be wrong or ugly. Gene Roddenberry

Can all this just be an accident? Or could there be some alien intelligence behind it?

do enjoy it when you get optimistically fatalistic,

Irene generally disliked debating philosophy or being told that answers were true 'from a certain point of view'.

For hym was levere have at his beddes heedTwenty bookes, clad in blak or reed,Of Aristotle and his philosophie,Than robes riche, or fithele, or gay sautrie,But al be that he was a philosophre,Yet hadde he but litel gold in cofre.

The gretteste clerkes been noght the wisest men.

For he was Epicurus owene sone.

the greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people

Insisting that his writing did not offer a philosophy of life, Hardy claims that each poem was an 'impression', intensely subjective and evanescent.

ONE WHO WAITS There are those who believe that time is a wheel turning forever. Which would mean that your moment will surely come. Then, there are those who believe that time is a river. Which, if that's true, it's possible that your moment has already flowed by. ED Which one do you think it is ONE WHO WAITS Ah. I think that time is just time.

Remember, philosophically speaking, Americans are mongrels —practical materialists but with a dreamy streak of divine approval.

Truth, with a capital T, was swapped for Fact with a capital F, then both lower-cased —facts the new trues.

They forget that for a Creator to create, He must be greater than His creation, thus He must be by definition not less than emotional.

Also, always encourage 'being good' over 'doing good.' Acts of goodness are the difficulty for us and should, of course, be avoided. 'Being good' is far less problematic, largely because it lacks definition and can be solely a state of mind completely unattached to reality.

We've spent centuries moving them away from that word virtue and especially The Virtues and that's precisely how we did it —by making it lower case.

They think virtues are man-made, only exist because they exist, but if no human had ever existed, The Virtues would persist for they hold their being from the very Presence of the Adversary Himself.

Es wird mir ganz angst um die Welt, wenn ich an die Ewigkeit denke.

Woyzeck, I shudder when I think that the earth takes a whole day to rotate. What a waste of time! And where's it going to end? Woyzeck, the very sight of a millwheel depresses me.

I believe that man is in the last resort so free a being that his right to be what he believes himself to be cannot be contested.