Quotes About Philosophy

Urzeczywistnienie to przekona?o go o wiecznej omy?ce, jakiej ulegaj? ludzie, uto?samiaj?c szcz??cie ze spe?nieniem pragnie?.

Caio é um homem,os homens são mortais, logo Caio é mortal", parecera-lhe a vida toda muito lógico e natural se aplicado a Caio, mas certamente não quando aplicado a ele próprio.

Once admit that human life can be guided by reason, and all possibility of life is annihilated.

Che cosa è male? Che cosa è bene? Che cosa bisogna amare, che cosa odiare? Per quale ragione dobbiamo vivere? E io che cosa sono? Che cos'è la vita? Che cos'è la morte? Quale forza guida tutto?» si domandava Pierre. E non trovava risposta ad alcuno di questi interrogativi, tranne una sola illogica risposta, che per contro non rispondeva affatto a queste domande. «Morirai e tutto sarà finito.»

It is beyond the power of the human intellect to encompass all the causes of any phenomenon. But the impulse to search into causes is inherent in man's very nature.

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If we were angels once, why did we end up lower?" asked Nikolai. "No, that can't be!" "Not lower, who told you it's lower?...How do I know what I used to be?

We sin so much, we deceive so much, and all for what? I'm over fifty, my friend … I'll … Everything ends in death, everything. Death is terrible." He

I think ... if there are as many minds as there are men, then there are as many kinds of love as there are hearts.

Why was I so reluctant to part with life? There was something in this life I did not and do not understand.

When during those first days he remembered that he would have to die, he said to himself: "Well, what of it? So much the better!

Caius is a man, men are mortal, therefore Caius is mortal - had seemed to him all his life correct only as regards Caius, but not at all regards himself. In that case it was a question of Caius, a man, an abstract man, and it was perfectly true, but he was not Caius, and was not an abstract man; he had always been a creature quite, quite different from all the others.

Having then for the first time clearly understood that before every man, and before himself, there lay only suffering, death, and eternal oblivion, he had concluded that to live under such conditions was impossible; that one must either explain life to oneself so that it does not seem to be an evil mockery by some sort of devil, or one must shoot oneself.

There were certain questions about the foundations of morals that advances in science all threaten to make more complicated.

Physics isn't a religion. If it were, we'd have a much easier time raising money.

The history of atomism is one of reductionism – the effort to reduce all the operations of nature to a small number of laws governing a small number of primordial objects.

The physicists defer only to mathematicians, and the mathematicians defer only to God.

Aristotle is generally credited (probably unreasonably) with holding up the progress of physics for about 2,000 years—until Galileo had the courage and the conviction to call him out.

The atomists knew that causation must start from something, and that no cause can be assigned to this original something. Motion was simply a given. The atomists asked mechanistic questions and gave mechanistic answers. When they asked "Why?" they meant: what was the cause of an event? When their successors—Plato, Aristotle, and so on—asked "Why?" they were searching for the purpose of an event.

Slavophilism, the messianism of backwardness, has based its philosophy upon the assumption that the Russian people and their church are democratic through and through, whereas official Russia is a German bureaucracy imposed upon them by Peter the Great.

The Formalist school represents an abortive idealism applied to the question of art. The Formalists show a fast ripening religiousness. They are followers of Saint John. They believe that "In the beginning was the Word." But we believe that in the beginning was the deed. The word followed, as its phonetic shadow.

Lumea este sus?inut? de rostirea cuvintelor.

even damnation is poisoned with rainbows.

I don't want to be a star, merely dying.