Quotes About Philosophy

Tanr? bir uçurumdur.

Si nunca has estudiado filosofía, ¿cómo puedes rechazarla? La ciencia y la medicina se ocupan del cuerpo, mientras la filosofía trata de la mente y del alma, tan necesarias para un médico como la comida y el aire.

Colorless green ideas sleep furiously.

if you ask me whether or not I'm an atheist, I wouldn't even answer. I would first want an explanation of what it is that I'm supposed not to believe in, and I've never seen an explanation.

Religion is based on the idea that God is an imbecile.

Thinking is a human feature. Will AI someday really think? That's like asking if submarines swim. If you call it swimming then robots will think, yes.

I'm quoting, so pardon the sexist language, but somewhere or other he said: socialism is an effort to try to solve man's animal problems, and after having solved the animal problems, then we can face the human problems—but it's not a part of socialism to solve the human problems; socialism is an effort to get you to the point where you can face the human problems

The meaning of life is something we answer with our own activities; there's no general answer. We determine what the meaning of it is. Meaning in the sense of significance, not in the sense of chair means this, but the significance of your life-- is something you create

Philosophers often appear to intend to want to get answers about humans that we can't get about insects, and that's too much, yaknow?

Aristotle was right—the way to overcome the paradox of democracy is by reducing inequality, not reducing democracy.

We should have pessimism of the intellect, but optimism of the will

Foucault: Oh, you know, I don't believe that the problem of personal experience is so very important

Una empresa intelectual más ambiciosa origina una coherente comprensión del mundo.

Yeah, it's a bum rap, basically?it's like referring to Soviet-style bureaucracy as socialism, or any other term of discourse that's been given a second meaning for the purpose of ideological warfare. I mean, chaos is a meaning of the word, but it's not a meaning that has any relevance to social thought. Anarchy as a social philosophy has never meant chaos?in fact, anarchists have typically believed in a highly organized society, just one that's organized democratically from below.

Everybody dies. There's nothing you can do about it. Whether or not you eat six almonds a day. Whether or not you believe in God. (Although there's no question a belief in God would come in handy. It would be great to think there's a plan, and that everything happens for a reason. I don't happen to believe that. And every time one of my friends says to me, "Everything happens for a reason," I would like to smack her.)

What is the answer?" Gertrude Stein asked Alice B. Toklas as Stein was dying. There was no reply. "In that case, what is the question?" Stein asked.

Half full, half empty, what the hell difference does it make? If there's something in the damn glass, drink it.

Have you ever wondered why life gets so screwed up? "Yes." She smiled. "I've begun to believe that God really is a man.

Do you ever wonder at the arrogance of men who think they alone exist in the Universe?

Tyler tested it himself and found he agreed with her. We'll let it age a bit. A lot of things become what they're meant to if you leave them alone awhile. Is that philosophy I hear? You want an opinion, or just somebody to agree with you? I guess wanting both was expecting too much. There you go.

What are you, twelve?" "The man who loses the boy is a sad and serious man." "Irish philosophy?" Sasha responded to it by shoving the heel of her hand through the water, and sending it into his face.

You're searching, Joe, For things that don't exist; I mean beginnings. Ends and beginnings—there are no such things. There are only middles. —Robert Frost

Jean Paul Sartre: "I needed God . . . I reached out for religion, I longed for it, it was the remedy. Had it been denied me, I would have invented it myself.

There can only be one God according to these arguments for many reasons. First, the God of the Cosmological argument is infinite48since every finite thing needs a cause. And there cannot be two infinite Beings. For in order for there to be two beings of the same kind, they would have to differ. But two infinite Beings do not differ; they are the same kind of Being, namely, infinite. Second, the theistic God (of the Moral Argument) is absolutely perfect.