Quotes About Philosophy

All the interests of my reason, speculative as well as practical, combine in the three following questions: 1. What can I know? 2. What ought I to do? 3. What may I hope?

From timber so crooked as that from which man is carved, nothing entirely straight can be made.

That all our knowledge begins with experience, there is indeed no doubt....but although our knowledge originates WITH experience, it does not all arise OUT OF experience.

The human heart refuses to believe in a universe without purpose.

Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing admiration and awe...

I had to deny knowledge in order to make room for faith.

Dare to think!

The death of dogma is the birth of morality.

Space and time are the framework within which the mind is constrained to construct its experience of reality.

The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.

No escribo, luego no soy.

att inte vilja annat än kritik - denna måttlighet är den sanna radikalismen.

Recht en waarheid zijn niet meer universeel. Dat is een ernstig feit, maar we moeten het accepteren.

Mais n'exagérons rien, puisque c'est là le problème: je suis ici et je sais bien que j'accepte tous les arguments, au prix de pouvoir vivre

I read somewhere; while God still existed one sustained a dialogue with God, and now that He no longer exists one has to sustain a dialogue with other people, I guess, or, better still, with oneself, that is to say, one talks or mumbles to oneself.

Einstein's results again turned the tables and now very few philosophers or scientists still think that scientific knowledge is, or can be, proven knowledge.

Research programmes, besides their negative heuristic, are also characterized by their positive heuristic.

You reason like a well-fed man, while your comrade's philosophy comes from an empty stomach. With reason you won't vanquish one another. You would agree at once if either you were hungry or he were full. The animal is always first in you and only when it is appeased, Man becomes conscious and in his great pride, despises his real nature.

Righteousness, according to Mencius, is a straight and narrow path which a man ought to take to regain the lost paradise.

What Buddhism failed to give, Shintoism offered in abundance.

As to strictly ethical doctrines, the teachings of Confucius were the most prolific source of Bushido.

and this Socratic doctrine found its greatest exponent in the Chinese philosopher Wan Yang Ming, who never wearies of repeating, "To know and to act are one and the same.

Confucius himself has repeatedly taught that external appurtenances are as little a part of propriety as sounds are of music.

Vivere meravigliandosi. [...] Scrivere meravigliandosi.