Quotes About Philosophy

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World history is not the soil in which happiness grows. Periods of happiness are empty pages in it'. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

where the 'Chicago boys' got their ideas, we shall find that the greatest influence was exercised by a handful of foreigners, all of them immigrants from central Europe: Ludwig von Mises, Friedrich Hayek, Joseph Schumpeter, Karl Popper, and Peter Drucker.

En palabras de Sartre: «Ser libre no es hacer lo que uno quiere, sino en querer hacer lo que uno puede».

For, as Al-Qashani says, 'The fundamental ground of the possible things is non-existence. And existence is the Form of God. So if He did not appear in His Form, which is existence qua existence, the whole world would remain in pure non-existence'.

Nietzsche's genealogical investigations do not undermine all values and all modes of evaluation equally. There are past tendencies, as well as present ones ... that Nietzsche esteems highly, and it is out of these estimations that his own ideal of the future emerges.

But John Chapman told us he didnt eat meat cause he couldnt stand for somethin livin to be killed jest to keep him alive.

In general, Quakers did not give gifts, as material possessions should not be given heightened status.

Isak Dinesen went so far as to say, "There are many ways to the recognition of truth, and Burgundy is one of them.

What is 45 minutes to an old goat like you?" - Vanda "I believe it is still 45 minutes." - Connor

His voice was heavy with Slavic fatalism.

Impressed deep in the psyche of America, the most literate society ever founded, was the idea that you could improve yourself—morally, philosophically, financially—through the written word.

You have a pet theory, one you have been turning over for years, that life itself is a kind of Rube Goldberg device, an extremely complicated machine designed to carry out the extremely simple task of constructing your soul.

Cuál es la diferencia entre carne complicada y metal complicado? ¿Qué es una vida? ¿Qué hace una vida? ¿La historia? ¿El tiempo? ¿Los recuerdos? ¿Los sentidos? ¿La forma en que ves las cosas? ¿Lo que ves? ¿Lo que escuchas? ¿Cómo te sientes? ¿Cómo haces cualquier cosa? ¿Cómo respiras? ¿Cómo creces? ¿Cómo piensas?

that is what life is for it is better to be a part of beauty for one instant and then cease to exist than to exist forever and never be a part of beauty

Aristotle observed more than 2,400 years ago, "There was never a genius without a tincture of madness.

Discussion is to Christian philosophy what lab work is to the practice of biology.

Great Books of the Western World.

if Earth is reduced to the size of a bacteria, and inspected under high-powered optics, would it seem stranger than a virus?

What then of the honest atheist? Philosophically speaking, an atheistic American is a contradiction in terms." The Presbyterian praised atheists for being "fine in character" and "good neighbors" but suggested they were "spiritual parasites." "I mean no term of abuse in this," the minister added. "A parasite is an organism that lives upon the life force of another organism without contributing to the life of the other.

But what is freedom? I sing the only words left to me: 'A bit of a bloody worry.

Why take life seriously? No one gets out alive anyways.

Only the incomprehensibilities of a Triune God could explain the impossibilities of human philosophy.

your beliefs are among the many things over which I currently have absolutely no control.