Quotes About Philosophy

if freedom were determined by laws, it would not be freedom, but would itself be nothing else but nature.

Het is geheel en al onmogelijk om in de wereld en zelfs ook daarbuiten iets te bedenken wat zonder restrictie voor goed gehouden kan worden, behalve dan een GOEDE WIL.

Thus, if materialism is inadequate to explain my existence, then spiritualism is equally insufficient for this purpose.

I cannot, therefore, perceive external things, but can only infer their existence from my own inner perception, by taking the perception as the effect of which something external must be the proximate cause.

KövetkezÅ'leg a háborúba önmagában valami belsÅ' méltóságot helyeznek, annyira, hogy annak olykor még filozófusok is, mint az emberiség bizonyos megnemesülésének, dicsÅ'ítÅ' beszédet tartanak, megfeledkezve ama görögnek mondásáról: "A háború abban rossz, hogy több rossz embert csinál, mint amennyit elpusztít.

T]he problem of demarcation between science and pseudoscience is not a pseudo-problem of armchair philosophers: it has grave ethical and political implications.

Non ho il genio della lite diceva. Indro Montanelli racconta Carlo Cattaneo

La ciencia es conocimiento organizado. La sabiduría es vida organizada

philosophers have warned us: if we forget the past, we are doomed to repeat

How different each death is, and yet it leads us into the self-same country, that country which we inhabit so rarely, where we see the worthlessness of what we have long pursued and will so soon return to pursuing.

In philosophy if you aren't moving at a snail's pace you aren't moving at all.

We need a moral philosophy which can speak significantly of Freud and Marx and out of which aesthetic and political views can be generated. We need a moral philosophy in which the concept of love, so rarely mentioned now, can once again be made central.

Freedom may be a value in politics, but it is not a value in morals.

Hegel says that Truth is a great word and the thing is greater still. With Dave we never seemed to get past the word.

But to be understood is not a human right. Even to understand oneself is not a human right.

Was this strange mode of life to go on and on?

It is sometimes said, either irritably or with a certain satisfaction, that philosophy makes no progress. It is certainly true, and I think this is an abiding and not a regrettable characteristic of the discipline, that philosophy has in a sense to keep trying to return to the beginning: a thing which it is not at all easy to do.

Tyrants always fear art because tyrants want to mystify while art tends to clarify. The good artist is a vehicle of truth Great art is able to display and discuss the central area of our reality, our actual consciousness, in a more exact way than science or even philosophy can.

The world is perhaps ultimately to be defined as a place of suffering. Man is a suffering animal, subject to ceaseless anxiety and pain and fear.

Odd I should have said those words before and forgotten them. It makes one feel that human beings are just machines after all.

As soon as any idea is a consolation the tendency to falsify it becomes strong: hence the traditional problem of preventing the idea of God from degenerating in the believer's mind.

Sartre turns love into a 'battle between two hypnotists in a closed room'.

She thought sadly, gaiety and laughter are not in my destiny.

One forgot, one forgot. What hold had one on the past? The present moment was a little travelling in darkness.