Quotes About Philosophy

I am a lover of beauty, he of humanity.

He considers intelligence to be a means, while I view it as an end in itself.

Because I think there are events of another category that are likewise not fixed in a causal chain: acts of volition. Free will is a kind of miracle; when we make a genuine choice, we bring about a result that cannot be reduce to the workings of physical law. Every act of volition is, like the creation of the universe, a first cause.

Because I think there are events of another category that are likewise not fixed in a causal chain: acts of volition. Free will is a kind of miracle; when we make a genuine choice, we bring about a result that cannot be reduced to the workings of physical law. Every act of volition is, like the creation of the universe, a first cause.

But the moment of creation is where all causal chains end; inference can lead us back to this moment and no further.

Hilbert once said, "If mathematical thinking is defective, where are we to find truth and certitude?

That's right. Arithmetic as a formal system is inconsistent.

For people like him, Hell was where you went when you died, and he saw no point in restructuring his life in hopes of avoiding that. And

Albert Einstein once said, "Insofar as the propositions of mathematics give an account of reality they are not certain; and insofar as they are certain they do not describe reality.

I am a lover of beauty, he of humanity. Each

What Gentzen had done was prove the obvious by assuming the doubtful. 7A

The existence of free will meant that we couldn't know the future. And we knew free will existed because we had direct experience of it. Volition was an intrinsic part of consciousness.

Do you now understand why I say the future and the past are the same? We cannot change either, but we can know both more fully.

Conventional languages. . . lack the power to express concepts that I need, and even in their own domain, they're imprecise and unwieldy. They're hardly fit for speech, let alone thought.

Brahman Hindus believe that by reciting mantras, they are strengthening the building blocks of reality.

If mathematical thinking is defective, where are we to find truth and certitude?

he'd always assumed his destination was Hell, and he accepted that. That was the way of things, and Hell, after all, was not physically worse than the mortal plane.

Are we more fully realized when we minimize the physical part of our natures? And that, you gave to agree, is a profound question.

The problem with any philosophical consideration is that once you open a door in your mind, you can never close it. Once you learn something, you can never convince your mind that you didn't learn it. If you learn the world is round, you can never fit in with a world that thinks it's flat.

Practically speaking, today is yesterday and there is no certainty tomorrow will ever arrive.

Western musicians had to choose between creating sounds and playing notes—and they opted for the latter. But African musicians never got enlightened (or is corrupted the better word?) by Pythagorean thinking.

All our choices, decisions, intuitions, other mental events, and our actions are no more than effects of other equally necessitated events.

Occam's razor or the law of parsimony, which states that when two theories compete to explain an unknown phenomenon we should err on the side of the simpler explanation.

But my favorite of Einstein's words on religion is "Science without religion is lame. Religion without science is blind." I like this because both science and religion are needed to answer life's great questions.