Quotes About Philosophy

We are not endeavoring to chain the future, but to free the present. We are not forging fetters for our children, but we are breaking those our fathers made for us. We are the advocates of inquiry, of investigation, and thought. This of itself, is an admission that we are not perfectly satisfied with our conclusions. Philosophy has not the egotism of faith.

Sincere religious faith is both a relationship and a love affair. That is one of the many reasons atheism is not a religion.

All beauty must have its imperfections, all happiness its share of sorrow.

I am and not: I freeze and yet am burned, Since from myself, my other self I turned.

Sweet are the uses of adversity, Which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, Wears yet a precious jewel in his head; And this our life, exempt from public haunt, Finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, Sermons in stones, and good in every thing. William Shakespeare (As You Like It Act 2, scene 1, 12

sublimely human, isn't it? Not unsullied genetic

Wabi-sabi" is a Japanese expression for the beauty of impermanence,

Twentieth-century philosophy is not unique in its ability to confuse puzzles with problems.

The dangers of sophistry and scholasticism are present in the possibility of philosophy itself.

What drives pure reason to efforts that seem to have neither end nor result?

Van de geschiedenis van de filosofie leren betekent niet haar zonder bedenkingen accepteren. Met behulp van haar inzichten kunnen we enig licht werpen op de onze. We kunnen niet op dezelfde stellingen terugvallen die eerder door de denkers van de Verlichting werden verdedigd, zelfs niet op die van haar modernste vertegenwoordigers. Misschien ligt de hoop niet in het beantwoorden van de vraag naar de zin van het leven, maar juist in het verwerpen van die vraag.

If the right to happiness is not an idle piece of wishful thinking but a demand of reason, the consequences can be revolutionary.

And we have seen how Rousseau's insistence on creating a world that makes sense ultimately vitiates his attempt to educate a child for a world that does not.

How could a good God create a world full of innocent suffering?

how can human beings behave in ways that so thoroughly violate both reasonable and rational norms?

inexhaustible effort that philosophers devote to a subject that brings no results.

Nietzsche turned the question into a cornerstone of his philosophy. His Twilight of the Idols states: 'In every age the wisest have passed the identical judgment on life: it is Worthless Ã¢â'¬Â¦ Everywhere and always their mouths have uttered the same sound – a sound full of doubt, full of melancholy, full of weariness with life, full of opposition to life' (p. 29).

Christian Center. Scott was a Stanford Ph.D. from rural Idaho who described himself as "the most agnostic believer and the most believing agnostic.

Althea Warren] believed librarians' single greatest responsibility was to read voraciously. Perhaps she advocated this in order to be sure librarians knew their books, but for Warren, this directive was based in emotion and philosophy: She wanted librarians to simply adore the act of reading for its own sake, and perhaps, as a collateral benefit, they could inspire their patrons to read with a similarly insatiable appetite

Work helped distract him from his morbid state of mind. The library wasn't his biggest project, but he was exhilarated by it. He approached it with a kind of freedom he had never experienced before. He believed that its design could fuse everything he had learned and loved in the visual world into a monument to things he valued most: history, books, philosophy, design, aspiration, creativity.

I think the real reason is that life has no meaning. I mean, no obvious meaning. You wake up, you go to work, you do stuff. I think everybody's always looking for something a little unusual that can preoccupy them and help pass the time.

Remember that life is not a problem to be solved but a mystery to be lived.

Even if AI surpasses us intellectually, we still may stand out in a crucial dimension: it feels like something to be us.

For instance, if AI cannot be conscious, then if you substituted a microchip for the parts of the brain responsible for consciousness, you would end your life as a conscious being.