Quotes About Philosophy

L'esthétique et les cosmétiques sont pour le boudoir. Je suis pour la vérité. La simple vérité pour un homme simple.

But can those have been possible seeing that they never were? Or was that only possible which came to pass?

I'm a believer in universal brotherhood, said Temple, glancing about him out of his dark oval eyes. Marx is only a bloody cod.

Gone too from the world, Averroes and Moses Maimonides

the slow growth and change of rite and dogma like his own rare thoughts, a chemistry of stars.

The ballad of joking Jesus, Stephen answered. —O, Haines said, you have heard it before? —Three times a day, after meals, Stephen said drily. —You're not a believer, are you? Haines asked . I mean, a believer in the narrow sense of the word. Creation from nothing and miracles and a personal God. —There's only one sense of the word, it seems to me, Stephen said. 21

He watched the scene and thought of life; and (as always happened when he thought of life) he became sad.

Melancholy was the dominant note of his temperament, he thought, but it was a melancholy tempered by recurrences of faith and resignation and simple joy.

I was happier then. Or was that I? Or am I now I? Can't bring back time. Like holding water in your hand.

Even if we are often led to desire through the sense of beauty can you say that the beautiful is what we desire?

Ineluctable modality of the visible...

I admire the mind of man independent of all religions.

excrementitious intelligence...

You're not a believer, are you? Haines asked. I mean, a believer in the narrow sense of the word. Creation from nothing and miracles and a personal God. —There's only one sense of the word, it seems to me, Stephen said.

Stephen Dedalus / Class of Elements / Clongowes Wood College / Sallins / County Kildare / Ireland / Europe / The World / The Universe goodreads

postmodernism asserts the liberating insignificance of art

I also am sure that there is no such thing as free thinking inasmuch as all thinking must be bound by its own laws.

His blade of human knowledge, natural astuteness particularized by long association with cases in the police courts, had been tempered by brief immersions in the waters of general philosophy.

A man who swears before the world to love a woman till death part him and her is sane neither in the opinion of the philosopher who understands what mutability is nor in the opinion of the man of the world who understands that it is safer to be a witness than an actor in such affairs. A man who swears to do something which it is not in his power to do is not accounted a sane man.

Ena milo melomon, frai is frau and swee is too, swee is two when swoo is free, ana mala woe is we!

Attaching epistemic significance to metaphysical intuitions is anti-naturalist for two reasons. First, it requires ignoring the fact that science, especially physics, has shown us that the universe is very strange to our inherited conception of what it is like. Second, it requires ignoring central implications of evolutionary theory, and of the cognitive and behavioural sciences, concerning the nature of our minds.

Given that the `common sense' of many contemporary philosophers is shaped and supplemented by ideas from classical physics, the locus of most metaphysical discussions is an image of the world that sits unhappily between the manifest image and an out of date scientific image.11

Given that the `common sense' of many contemporary philosophers is shaped and supplemented by ideas from classical physics, the locus of most metaphysical discussions is an image of the world that sits unhappily between

Jimmie would forever be the Renaissance humanist, bearing his faith and optimism like a white light inside a chalice.