Quotes About Philosophy

Naturalism was never the point.

Stroll on. When the going gets tough, the postmodern analyst goes shopping.

Why is female vulnerability still only acceptable when it's neuroticised and personal; when it feeds back on itself? Why do people still not get it when we handle vulnerability like philosophy, at some remove?

Isn't the greatest freedom in the world the freedom to be wrong? What hooks me on our story is our different readings of it. You think it's personal and private; my neurosis... I think our story is performative philosophy.

continually exposing myself to whatever situation occurs… Gambling as well as gamboling… To exist instead of being an existentialist, to make objects instead of being one

Every question, once it's formulated," she writes, "contains its own internal truth. We have to stop diverting ourselves with false questions

Humour is the courtesy of despair

He's a beautiful man, but I'm sorry he doesn't agree with my political philosophy Tip O'Neill on Ronald Reagan

Without the numbers to the right of pi, pi just becomes three,

I bomb atomically, Socrates' philosophies and hypotheses can't define how I be droppin these mockeries,

Don't be concerned if you haven't been aware of these natural laws before. Once you begin to incorporate a philosophy into your life that is in accordance with Universal law, your life will bring you such joy, that you'll laugh in amazement. It will be as if you've spent your life driving a car in reverse and you've sudenly discovered that there are gears to make it go forward - and fast!

She seeks meaning in this, but it is simply that which is immeasurable.

öldürmek ve ölmek aras?nda üçüncü bir ÅŸey var: yaÅŸamak.

We are here to become great men and women, and with that purpose in view, we must eliminate everything in our religion and philosophy that tends to make the human mind a dependent weakling. If you would serve God and be truly religious, do not kneel before God, but learn to walk with God, and do something tangible every day to increase the happiness of mankind. This is religion that is worth while, and it is such religion alone that can please the Infinite.

L'intelligence humaine, dit Auguste Comte, passe successivement par trois états : L'état théologique ou fictif (êtres divins) ; L'état métaphysique ou abstrait (nature, être) ; L'état scientifique ou positif (observation, empirisme).

Kierkegaard distingue trois stades de l'existence : Le stade esthétique (jouissance, plaisir) ; Le stade éthique (métier, mariage) ; Le stade religieux.

Kierkegaard - L'ironie, dit-on, consiste à parler légèrement de choses graves, l'humour à parler gravement de choses légères.

Marx - La philosophie est à l'étude du monde réel ce que l'onanisme est à l'amour sexuel.

Alors que la devise du socialisme est : "A chacun selon son travail" (formule reprise par Saint-Simon A chacun selon ses capacités, à chaque capacité selon ses oeuvres), celle du communisme fut "De chacun selon ses capacités à chacun selon ses besoins

Socrate constitue donc un tournant dans la manière de penser : c'est lui, en effet, qui concentra la réflexion sur les problèmes pratiques du bien et de la justice, se détournant des spéculations cosmologiques auxquelles ses prédécesseurs s'étaient tous adonnés.

The busiest of living agents are certain dead men's thoughts.

So is it just human nature to believe that things happen for a reason — to find some shred of meaning even in the worst experiences?" Molly asks when Vivian reads some of these stories aloud. "It certainly helps," Vivian says.

Regret?" Vivian raises her shoulders in a shrug. "I'm not sure what good it is to regret.

So is it just human nature to believe that things happen for a reason—to find some shred of meaning even in the worst experiences?