Quotes About Philosophy

To observe processes and to construct means is science; to criticize and coordinate ends is philosophy: and because in these days our means and instruments have multiplied beyond our interpretation and synthesis of ideals and ends, our life is full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.

In death there are smaller premises, littler ironies.

You have to realize just because things don't have tangible reality, that doesn't mean they don't exist. Ideas are just as real as people and property. Ideas have changed the world profoundly to an extent most people never approach - Father Beale

Man has no Body distinct from his soul; for that called Body is a portion of a Soul discerned by the five senses, the chief inlets of Soul in this age.

Thou art a man God is no more Thy own humanity Learn to adore

The hours of folly are measur'd by the clock, but of wisdom: no clock can measure.

The emmet's inch and eagle's mile Make lame philosophy to smile. He who doubts from what he sees Will ne'er believe, do what you please. - Auguries of Innocence

La Eternidad está enamorada de las obras del tiempo.

Active evil is better than passive good

All that we saw was owing to your metaphysics.

One thought fills immensity.

Åžeytan'?n sesi: Bütün Mukaddes Kitaplar veya kutsal buyruklar ÅŸu Yanl??lara yol açm??t?r: 1. Ä°nsan?n gerçek iki varoluÅŸ kaidesi vard?r, yani Bedeni ve Ruhu. 2. Kötülük denen Enerji yaln?zca Bedenden, Ä°yilik denen Ak?l ise yaln?zca Ruhtand?r. 3. Tanr?, Enerjisinin peÅŸinden gittiÄŸi için Ä°nsana Ebediyette eziyet edecektir.

Vedere un mondo in un granello di sabbia e un paradiso in un fiore selvatico, tenere l'infinito nel palmo della mano e l'eternità in un'ora.

God forbid that Truth should be confined to Mathematical Demonstration! He who does not know truth at sight is unworthy of Her Notice.

To see the world in a grain of sand, And a Heaven in a Wild Flower. Hold infinity in the palm of your hand And Eternity in an hour.

Now hear a plain fact: Swedenborg has not written one new truth. Now hear another: he has written all the old falsehoods.

I have teken refuge in the doctrine that advises one not to seek tranquility in certainty but in permanently suspended judgement.

What can I know? Nothing for sure. What ought I to do? Try not to hurt anyone. What may I hope for? For the best (but it won't make any difference).

The idea of a priori moral judgements ('It is morally wrong to inflict gratuitous pain') is completely acceptable to the vast majority of human beings. Only a few philosophers would disagree.

I prefer not to starve, to live by the practice of medicine, which combines the best features of both science and philosophy with that imponderable and enlightening element, disease, unknown in its normality to either. But, like Pasteur, when he was young, or anyone else who has something to do, I wish I had more money for my literary experiments." William Carlos Williams, c. 1931

Say what you will, 'tis better to be left than never to have been loved.

what young men in our colleges learn through those of Greek and Latin—that is grammar, rhetoric, and logic. After his seven years of study, the young Muhammadan binds his turban upon a head almost as well filled with the things which appertain to these branches of knowledge as the young man raw from Oxford—he will talk as fluently about Socrates and Aristotle, Plato and Hippocrates, Galen and Avicenna; (alias Sokrat, Aristotalis, Alflatun, Bokrat, Jalinus and Bu Ali Sena); and

We ought to recollect ... that a book consists, like man, from whom it draws its lineage, of a body and a soul.

She [Ayn Rand] had to declare that....altruism was despicable, that only self-interest is good and noble. (About Ayn Rand)