Quotes About Philosophy

One or two factoids. Plato, né Aristocles, is c. 427–347 BCE; Aristotle is 384–322 BCE (compare Socrates at c. 470–399 and Zeno at c. 490–435). Aristotle was a former star pupil in Plato's Academy, the motto over the front door of which happened to be LET NO ONE WHO IS IGNORANT OF GEOMETRY ENTER HERE. 18

There are exactly as many R.L.-points in [0,1] as there are in [0,2].

you can prove that there are exactly as many real numbers between 0 and 1 as between 0 and any other finite number you can think of.

David Foster Wallace

Since pain is a totally subjective mental experience, we do not have direct access to anyone or anything's pain but our own; and even just the principles by which we can infer that others experience pain and have a legitimate interest in not feeling pain involve hard-core philosophy—metaphysics, epistemology, value theory, ethics.

Según los Vedas, la sede del pensamiento, las acciones y los deseos no es la mente, sino el corazón humano.

You can buy gold that is bright as the sun and diamonds as pale as the moon. But you cannot buy the sun. You cannot own the moon." II

Si elle partage vos sentiments? Quelle différence cela fait-il? Achetez-la, quoi qu'il en soit! Hélicon secoua la tête. -On peut acheter de l'or brilliant comme le soleil, et des diamants à l'éclat lunaire. Mais on ne peut pas acheter le soleil, ni posséder la lune.

Does blue have a smell?

Yeshua ben Yusef

People appeared enormously foolish to him. He understood that they were only animated cavities full of jelly and strings and liquids.

the world was created this morning. No such thing as the past …

Marx inverted Hegel's dialectics and stood it right side up, on its feet.

Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof. Sufficient unto the moment is the appearance of reality

The infinite! No other question has ever moved so profoundly the spirit of man.

No one shall expel us from the paradise that Cantor has created for us.

Wir dürfen nicht denen glauben, die heute mit philosophischer Miene und über-legenem Tone den Kulturuntergang prophezeien und sich in dem Ignorabimus gefallen. Füruns gibt es kein Ignorabimus, und meiner Meinung nach auch für die Naturwissenschaftüberhaupt nicht. Statt des törichten Ignorabimus heisse im Gegenteil unsere Lösung: Wir müssen wissen. Wir werden wissen.

But all our wisdom had been vanity. I could no longer feel superior to

It was what I believed to be the humanity of the Marxist idea that made me what I was then; it is the inhumanity of what I have seen to be the Marxist reality that has made me what I am now.

the biblical warning of Ecclesiastes: "In much knowledge is much grief, and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow.

Idealism kills," the philosopher Nietzsche had warned

If we can't be ballplayers together, maybe I can start bein' a Buddhist.

It's incredible to me how blithely even intelligent people sometimes toss around terms like "transcendence" and "crucifixion." The words move us on paper. They feel noble upon the tongue. But when they cease to be sounds and begin to caress the flesh and bones, when they leave the page and get physical, there is little that even the best of us woudn't do to escape them.

Besides a Scientist Marion is also a Pacifist and an Atheist. This means she is basically against most things, such as War, Sports, and God.