Quotes About Philosophy

One of the most famous paradoxes ever articulated is often known by the title 'the liar's paradox'. At its simplest you can express it just by saying: 'I am lying'. The liar's paradox is a complicated business, discombobulating to think about because after all, if I'm lying, then my statement 'I am lying' must itself be a lie, unless I was actually telling the truth, in which case I would have been telling a lie.

the towering standing wave that composes the symphony of thought.

Strong privacy advocates—especially those promoting encryption and anonymity—may deny that this phenomenon is a direct physical corollary of their message, so I will let the reader decide whether a philosophy that relies on cybernetic gates, walls, and coded locks is any different in its underlying basis—fear.

But then, of course, it could have been worse. This may not be the best of all possible worlds. But Pangloss never met Murphy. And things could have been very much worse, indeed. The pyramid loomed ahead, separated by a broad river from the main part of an alien metropolis that had once been named Cal'mari.

Of protein, phosphorus, nor even energy is there ever enough to slake all hungers. Therefore, show not affront when diverse beings vie over what physically exists. Only in thought can there be true generosity. So let thought be the focus of your world.

Like the origin stories of Confucianism or early Buddhism, the modern story is about a universe that just is. Any sense of meaning comes not from the universe, but from us humans. "What's the meaning of the universe?" asked Joseph Campbell, a scholar of myth and religion. "What's the meaning of a flea? It's just there, that's it, and your own meaning is that you're there."3

loss of faith helps explain the pervasive anomie, the feeling of aimlessness, meaninglessness, and sometimes even despair that shaped so much literature, art, philosophy, and scholarship in the twentieth century.

Simplicity and concision are tough. The French philosopher Blaise Pascal famously noted that he'd written a long letter, having lacked the time required to write a shorter one.2 As I believe, if you can't convey a thought clearly and in a few words, then your comprehension of it is probably lacking.

This isn't a new idea. Nearly two thousand years ago the Greek philosopher, Epictctus, stated that people are disturbed "not by things, but by the views we take of them." In the Book of Proverbs (23: 7) in the Old Testament you can find this passage: "For as he thinks within himself, so he is." And even Shakespeare expressed a similar idea when he said: "for there is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so" (Hamlet, Act 2, Scene 2).

Ä°nsan için deÄŸer kavram?n?n tam bir soyutlama olduÄŸunu kabul etmelisiniz. Ä°nsani deÄŸer diye bir ÅŸey asl?nda yok. Bu nedenle de ona sahip olup olmamak diye bir ÅŸey de yok ve bu ölçülebilir bir ÅŸey deÄŸil.

Absolutes do not exist in this universe.

Anarcho-capitalism is not by definition libertarian. It is rather a prediction, not a definition.

Life doesn't amount to a hill of beans.

most people need to believe in something. There are a few who don't, but they're a bit unusual.

The men sit around getting fat and arguing with each other about something they call "philosophy" - most of which is pure nonsense.

And how long dost thou expect this dying of thine to persist?' The voice seemed only mildly curious. 'I don't know' I replied through a sudden wave of self pity. 'I've never done it before.

Everything is idiocy if you choose to look at it in the proper light, he replied philosophically.

Selon Chondler, conclut-il, il n'existe qu'une seule vertu : la modération. Encore ne faut-il pas la pratiquer avec excès.

logical validity is not a guarantee of truth.

God seems to have a kind of laid-back management style I'm not crazy about.

morning is the soul's night.

When a solipsist dies ... everything goes with him.

Capital T-truth is about life before death.

Words and a book and a belief that the world is words...