Quotes About Philosophy

These philosophically fun ideas usually satisfy nobody. Nonetheless, they remind us that ignorance is the natural state of mind for a research scientist. People who believe they are ignorant of nothing have neither looked for, nor stumbled upon, the boundary between what is known and unknown in the universe.

Beauty is truth, truth beauty,—that is all

The cosmic perspective helps us to see beyond our circumstances, allowing us to realize that life is about more than money, popularity, clothes, sports, or even grades.

These philosophically fun ideas usually satisfy nobody. Nonetheless, they remind us that ignorance is the natural state of mind for a research scientist.

Which came first, the chicken or the egg? The egg, laid by a bird that was not a chicken.

?wiat nie ma obowi?zku by? dla ciebie zrozumia?ym.

At most, he was introducing me to a body of knowledge I could draw from, like the writings of Joseph Campbell or the teaching of the Buddha or the lyrics of Jay-Z. After

never ceased to amaze him how a discredited philosophy and a repressive nation still attracted idealists.

Don't buy anything. My philosophy is, if it flies, floats, or fucks, rent it.

If I were a scientist looking at this stuff, I might wonder about God—not about His existence, but His intent.

Mary looked at her gratefully. "Well, that's what I think. I mean, I couldn't bear to—to just stop doing things and do nothing. You might as well die now and get it over." Moira nodded. "If what they say is right, we're none of us going to have time to do all that we planned to do. But we can keep on doing it as long as we can.

In marked contrast, Ottoman scientific progress was non-existent in this same period. The best explanation for this divergence was the unlimited sovereignty of religion in the Muslim world. Towards the end of the eleventh century, influential Islamic clerics began to argue that the study of Greek philosophy was incompatible with the teachings of the Koran.32

Gibbon's breathtaking chapter on early Christianity (volume I, chapter 15 of his Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire) or in Candide, Voltaire's devastating mockery of Leibniz's claim that 'all is for the best in the best of all possible worlds'.m

Nevertheless, that our freewill may not be altogether extinguished, I think it may be true that fortune is the ruler of half our actions, but that she allows the other half or a little less to be governed by us.

Yet the way men live is so far removed from the way they ought to live that anyone who abandons what is for what should be pursues his downfall rather than his preservation

Çünkü insanlar, eÄŸer iyi olmalar?n? gerektiren bir zorunluluk yoksa, kötü insanlar olarak kar??m?za ç?kar.

It is so far from how one lives to how one should live that he who lets go of what is done for what should be done learns his ruin rather than his preservation

De aquí que sus concepciones de la historia y de la «naturaleza humana» constituyan los pilares teóricos del pensamiento maquiaveliano.

How one lives is so far distant from how one ought to live, that he who neglects what is done for what ought to be done, sooner effects his ruin than his preservation.' (ch XV)

How we live is so difference than how we ought to live that he who studies what ought to be done rather than what is done will learn the way to his downfall rather than to his preservation. The Prince.

Then there is Plato on human happiness: "The greatest wealth is to live content with little.

The Bauhaus was an attitude, not a style or a time period.

Do you ever wonder why things have to turn out the way they do?

Science only goes so far, then comes God. - Noah Calhoun-