Quotes About Philosophy

One senses that Hegel was possible only in German, and finds it natural that Locke in a language where large and red precede apple should have arrived at the thing after sorting out its sensory qualities, whereas Descartes in a language where grosse et rouge follows pomme should have come to the attributes after the distinct idea.

Certainly, reading Post-Structuralist prose is a form of work, like jogging with a nail in your shoe.

So unless we're going to get down on our knees and give thanks every time disaster misses, it makes no sense to moan when it strikes. Us, or anyone else. Because we're not comparing it with anything. And anyway, we're all dead, or never born, and the whole thing really is a dream. There, you see. That's a funny side.

Love is a word. A sound. Its association with a particular feeling is arbitrary, unmeasurable, and ultimately meaningless

To err is human- I'm uncomfortable around gods.

Sometimes I doubt and sometimes I believe. And I like not making myself believe when I am doubting, and not making myself doubt when I am believing. Surely neither God nor Accident need my consistency.

Now that I know that I am no wiser than anyone else, does this wisdom make me wiser?

Immanuel Kant" "Noch wal

I don't believe in principles. They don't exist! There are laws and facts...

Das Leben flieht wie Sand dahin, Doch schwer umkehret sich der Sinn.

It's all a mystery, so much is mysterious.And we are here to endure it.And in the How, there lies the whole difference—

Ein sonderbar Ding ist die Zeit. Wenn man so hineinlebt, ist sie rein gar nichts. Aber dann auf einmal, dann spürt man nichts als sie.

A profunda ignorância é o que inspira o tom dogmático". La Bruyère

Um homem que morre aos trinta e cinco anos é em cada momento da sua vida um homem que morrerá aos trinta e cinco anos. A isso Goethe chamava 'enteléquia

What a peculiar privilege has this little agitation of the brain which we call 'thought'.

The problem with the world is that everyone is a few drinks behind.

You call a star a star, and say it is just a ball of matter moving on a mathematical course. But that is merely how you see it. By so naming things and describing them you are only inventing your own terms about them. And just as speech is invention about objects and ideas, so myth is invention about truth.

Who said anything about justice? There's no such thing. But injustice is as much a part of life as the weather.

Rationalism and Newtonian science has lured us into dark woods, but a new metaphysics can rescue us.

If we take the world's enduring religions at their best, we discover the distilled wisdom of the human race.

All -isms end up in schisms.

Rain, after all is only rain; it is not bad weather. So also, pain is only pain; unless we resist it, then it becomes torment.

Now to think of concrete as both natural and artificial demands a greater degree of mental agility than most of us can manage. So much is invested in the absoluteness of this distinction between natural and artificial , so necessary is it to our whole cosmology, that to admit that something can be both of these would be just too anxious-inducing. To avoid this, we habitually operate on the assumption that concrete is just artificial, or alternatively, just natural, but never both.

Producing the prefect concrete has become a kind of philosopher's stone of the late 20th century.