Quotes About Philosophy

Personally, I never admired communists because they operate on the theory that human beings are nice people.

Since Logic derives from postulates, it never has, and never will, change a postulate. And a religious belief is a system of postulates ... so how can a man fight a native superstition with logic? Or anything else ...?

if Rand was equal to Old

NAUDSONCE Bishop Berkeley's famous question about the sound of a falling tree may have no standing in Science. But there is a highly interesting question about "sound" that Science needs to consider....

Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober not to make us sorry but wise.

Human history in essence is the history of ideas.

Are we not Men?

And it is in his own image, let us remember, that Man creates God.

Anyhow, the hole in the doughnut is at least digestible.

We are here and now. Further than that, all knowledge is moonshine.

chaos eliminates the Laplacian fantasy of deterministic predictability.

Those who made such models took for granted that, from present to future, the laws of motion provide a bridge of mathematical certainty. Understand the laws and you understand the universe. That was the philosophy behind modeling weather on a computer.

In PM, as Gödel said, "one can prove any theorem using nothing but a few mechanical rules.

There must be truths, that is, that cannot be proved—and Gödel could prove it.

And where did logic belong? To psychology or to computer science? Surely not just to philosophy.

The pits and tangles are more than blemishes distorting the classic shapes of Euclidian geometry. They are often the keys to the essence of a thing

whether it means anything to ask why we're here....

Names are not the things they name. Classes are not coextensive with subclasses.

Scientists marching under Newton's banner actually waved another flag that said something like this: Given an approximate knowledge of a system's initial conditions and an understanding of natural law, one can calculate the approximate behavior of the system. This assumption lay at the philosophical heart of science.

The willful amnesia afflicting the sciences in general contrasts sharply with the importance given to memory by the humanities. Literature, philosophy, politics, and the visual arts, including photography and filmmaking, feed on memory. Practitioners of the humanities need memory to deepen and refine their thinking.

The first way has been excellently presented by David Holt in his lecture on "Jung and Marx." [1] There Holt shows that Jung imagined his work to be theoretically and historically substantiated by alchemy, and that Jung spent a

The jewel has facets," said the Chinese, "and it is possible that many religions are moderately true.

_ What do the [monks] do? [...] _ They devote themselves, madam, to contemplation and to the pursuit of wisdom. _ But that isn't *doing* anything. _ Then, madam, they do nothing. _ I thought as much.

the will of man and the lunacy of God. It must be satisfying to be quite certain which way to look at it.