Quotes About Philosophy

Only someone in his twenties can take such delirious propositions seriously. You have to be a twentysomething to believe that they can be turned into a theory of the world.

Despite certain obscurities,

It is hardly surprising that there are more things in heaven and earth, dear reader, than have been dreamed of in our philosophy—or in our physics.

It must not be claimed that anyone can sense time by itself apart from the movement of things. LUCRETIUS, De rerum natura1

There is not an 'I' and 'the neurons in my brain'. They are the same thing. An individual is a process: complex, tightly integrated.

Qui, sul bordo di quello che sappiamo, a contatto con l'oceano di quanto non sappiamo, brillano il mistero del mondo, la bellezza del mondo, e ci lasciano senza fiato.

man is what we all know.

Si noti il meraviglioso «Mi sembra...» iniziale, che ricorda l'«Io penso...» con cui Darwin introduce nei suoi taccuini la grande idea che le specie evolvono, o l'«esitazione» di cui parla Faraday quando nel suo libro introduce la rivoluzionaria idea di campo elettrico. Il genio esita.

More than a hundred years have passed since we learned that the "present of the universe" does not exist.

The aim is to balance the terror of being alive with the wonder of being alive.

Se procurar bem, você acaba encontrando não a explicação (duvidosa) da vida, mas a poesia (inexplicável) da vida.

lema epicúreo: láthe biósas, «oculta tu vivir» o «vive sin ser notado».

La filosofía no fue sólo una disciplina escolar, sino también un arte de vivir, una ascética para la felicidad en tiempos revueltos.

I thought that any joy in my life had to be paid for with something unpleasant. Perhaps this was a fatal law.

He llegado a no verle a la vida más sentido que el de indagar su sentido, aun a sabiendas de que ninguna pista lleva a aclarar nada, fallando en la pesquisa una vez detrás de otra.

The Politics is a product of that singular moment in the history of the West when traditional modes of thinking in every area were being uprooted by the new mode of thinking that had made its appearance in the Greek world under the name of philosophy.

We believe that feminism is a transformative philosophy that embraces the amelioration of life on earth for all life-forms, for all natural entities.

Men are born soft and supple; Dead, they are stiff and hard. Plants are born tender and pliant; Dead, they are brittle and dry. Thus whoever is stiff and inflexible Is a disciple of death. Whoever is soft and yielding Is a disciple of life.1

That's what I believe, God exists. God is there. But God doesn't decide what happens here on earth; we do. God gave us free will and we have to use it." ~Zvi

I know one thing -- I don't understand it. Will Adam's survival, or Morris's, depend on something little like that? Like a toss of a coin? It makes me feel like everything must be terribly important, even the toss of a coin, or nothing is important, and we may as well not care about anything.

The little man behind that desk was the joke candidate of election years, best remembered for his trademark yellow bowtie. In Riker's fashion philosophy, bows should be reserved to the pigtails of little girls or the collars of tiny dogs hatched from peanut shells.

Problem with the big philosophers is they cared about ideas more than people. Hegel would probably have stepped over a guy trying to slit his wrists outside a bar — to get to all the people he could sit and bullshit with inside. Did you know half of philosophy was first put into words by people shot in the ass?

There are coaches out there," Wooden says, "who have won championships with the dictator approach, among them Vince Lombardi and Bobby Knight. I had a different philosophy.… For me, concern, compassion, and consideration were always priorities of the highest order." Read

A few modern philosophers…assert that an individual's intelligence is a fixed quantity, a quantity which cannot be increased. We must protest and react against this brutal pessimism….With practice, training, and above all, method, we manage to increase our attention, our memory, our judgment and literally to become more intelligent than we were before.