Quotes About Philosophy

The wise man listens to meaning; the fool only gets the noise. The modern Greek poet C. P. Cavafy wrote a piece in 1915 after Philostratus' adage "For the gods perceive things in the future, ordinary people things in the present, but the wise perceive things about to happen.

Remember that Socrates was put to death because he would not compromise his standards.

you never cure structural defects; the system corrects itself by collapsing.*2

Consider that thinking is time-consuming and generally a great waste of energy

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

A ESTRATÉGIA BARBELL DE SÊNECA Isso nos leva à solução

Less is more: Truth is lost with too much altercation

The Platonic fold is the explosive boundary where the Platonic mind-set enters in contact with messy reality, where the gap between what you know and what you think you know becomes dangerously wide. It is here that the Black Swan is produced.

Recall that the Platonic fold is where our representation of reality ceases to apply—but we do not know it.

to how deep the author wants to go into a topic

He provides the example of a philosopher who puzzles about the reality of time, but who nonetheless applies for a research grant to work on the philosophical problem of time during next year's sabbatical—without doubting the reality of next year's arrival.

We have to accept the fuzziness of the familiar "because" no matter how queasy it makes us feel (and it does makes us queasy to remove the analgesic illusion of causality).

We scorn the abstract; we scorn it with passion.

Laws come and go; ethics stay.

Real mathematicians understand completeness, real philosophers understand incompleteness, the rest don't formally understand anything.

El arte es una conversación unilateral con lo no observado.

which condition preceded the other.

Yet simplicity has been difficult to implement in modern life because it is against the spirit of a certain brand of people who seek sophistication so they can justify their profession. Less is more and usually more effective.

and no less intellectual than Nero.

My point is that wisdom in decision making is vastly more important—not just practically, but philosophically—than knowledge.

Who is this book written for?

Cygnus Atratus In his Treatise on Human Nature, the Scots philosopher David Hume posed the issue in the following way (as rephrased in the now famous black swan problem by John Stuart Mill): No amount of observations of white swans can allow the inference that all swans are white, but the observation of a single black swan is sufficient to refute that conclusion.

Socrates was put to death because he disrupted something that, in the eyes of the Athenian establishment, was working just fine.

Stoicism makes you desire the challenge of a calamity.