Quotes About Philosophy

The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think.

This world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.

I have often said, and oftener think, that this world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel – a solution of why Democritus laughed and Heraclitus wept.

This is a bad world; nor have I had cause to leave it with regret.

En cuanto a mí, me paso la vida llevando cigarros a la boca como quien quema margaritas: ¿me quiere? ¿no me quiere?

It doesn't make any sense, does it?" "Some things don't," said the beetle, gloomily. "Don't be so sure," Aubrey said. "Everything makes sense if you can find the right way to look at it. What we need is a new perspective.

To have any goal in your life is to forget about the uselessness of life. To think of interesting ideas. - Isvan Moldovan

Adev?rata filosofie nu confer? putere asupra lumii, ci ofer? solu?ia dep??irii ei.

The evidences of our religion are like the religion itself, infinitely superior to any thing ever contrived by human wisdom. And it is an opinion in which I am the more confirmed, the more I examine it, that if the wisest set of philosophers which ever lived on earth had been a council to contrive a method by which Christianity could have been perpetuated in the world, that scheme which they would have projected, would of itself defeated the object.

There—you mean to eat? No, no—I hold with my blessed mentor, Hippocrates, that three quarters of the physical evils that beset mankind flow from eating too much, not too little.

They reflect common sense or—as my mentor Nelson Goodman used to quip—common nonsense.

T. S. Eliot told Auden tht the reason he played patience night after night was that it was the nearest thing to being dead.

I suspect you're thinking of Pascal,' Finkler said, finally.'Only he said the opposite. He said you might as well wager on God because that way, even if He doesn't exist, you've nothing to lose. Whereas if you wager against God and He does exist...' 'You're in the shit.

Whoever spoke of a wise lover? The wiser the lover, the longer ago he stopped loving.

you might as well wager on God because that way, even if He doesn't exist, you've nothing to lose. Whereas if you wager against God and He does exist . . .

Do days exist without calendars? Does time pass when there are no human hands left to wind the clocks?

Although it is not as famous as Kuhn's SSR, Bas van Fraassen's book The Scientific Image (1980) has certainly had a profound effect on the philosophy of science

Early Greek Science: Thales to Aristotle (New York: W. W. Norton, 1970) and Greek Science after Aristotle (New York: W. W. Norton, 1973)

Alexander Bird's Thomas Kuhn (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2000

Though outdated, Carl G. Hempel's Philosophy of Natural Science has never been surpassed (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1966)

I think the best general discussion of scientific rationality is W. H. Newton-Smith's The Rationality of Science (Boston: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1981)

Richard Bernstein's Beyond Objectivism and Relativism

To avoid confusion, let me make an important distinction: Practically all philosophers these days are fallibilists. That is, they recognize that even our best-supported theories and factual claims are fallible and may turn out to be wrong—as, indeed, they so often have in the past. But fallibilism does not entail relativism

One very good introduction to the topic of scientific explanation is the chapter "Scientific Explanation" by Wesley C. Salmon in Salmon et al., Introduction to the Philosophy of Science (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1992).