Quotes About Philosophy

ninguna máquina ha superado el test de Turing, una prueba bastante sencilla y, posiblemente, no demasiado significativa. Y, desde luego, ninguna ha superado el listón de Ada —aún más alto— de ser capaz de «originar» cualquier pensamiento propio.

Buddhist days was that material possessions often cluttered life rather than enriched it.

somewhat like the ancient Greek "liar's paradox," in which the truth of the statement "This statement is false" cannot be determined. (If the statement is true, then it's also false, and vice versa.) By coming up with statements

Leonardo said so himself. "Intellectual passion drives out sensuality," he wrote in one of his notebooks.

Even at a young age Lisa began to realize his diet obsessions reflected a life philosophy, one in which asceticism and minimalism could heighten subsequent sensations. "He believed that great harvests came from arid sources, pleasure from restraint," she noted. "He knew the equations that most people didn't know: Things led to their opposites.

Plato inscribed over the door of his Academy: "Let no one who is not a mathematician read my work.

soy frutariano y solo comeré hojas recogidas por vírgenes a la luz de la luna

The situation may be expressed by an image: science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.

The obvious yet still astonishing conclusion: with no such thing as absolute simultaneity, there is no such thing as "real" or absolute time.

As the evening droned on, Einstein turned to a Dutch diplomat seated next to him and said, "I've just developed a new theory of eternity.

Even a genius like Schopenhauer was crushed by unemployment," he wrote. "Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving."30 Eduard

As Diderot once quipped, a deist is someone who has not lived long enough to become an atheist.

Man stands on this diminutive earth, gazes at the myriad stars and upon billowing oceans and tossing trees—and wonders. What does it all mean? How did it come about?

Otras dependen más de la deducción, esto es, de empezar partiendo de principios y postulados elegantes que se consideran sagrados, y luego deducir las consecuencias de ellos.

His life was a constant quest for unifying theories.

We must remember that this is a very small star," he responded, "and probably some of the larger and more important stars may be very virtuous and happy."73

I cannot conceive of a personal God who would directly influence the actions of individuals or would sit in judgment on creatures of his own creation

The great uncertainty I found in metaphysical reasonings disgusted me, and I quitted that kind of reading and study for others more satisfactory." What

Given a choice of order or justice, he often said, paraphrasing Goethe, he would choose order. He had seen too clearly the consequences of disorder.

he "dropped my abrupt contradiction" style of argument and "put on the humbler enquirer" of the Socratic method.

Como Spinoza, Einstein no creía en un Dios personal que interactuaba con el hombre. Pero sí creían ambos que había un diseño divino reflejado en las elegantes leyes que gobernaban el funcionamiento del universo.

Homeric Greece and everything that philosophy after Plato stood for was, however superficially cordial and continuous, in fact deeply antagonistic, if often at the unconscious rather than the conscious level.

Many of the features we have taken for granted in thought and expression in literature, philosophy and science, and even in oral discourse among literates, are not directly native to human existence as such but have come into being because of the resources which the technology of writing makes available to human consciousness.

One can oppose the shallow optimism of so many Western thinkers and yet refuse to negate life.