Quotes About Philosophy

I BELIEVE IN THE 50-PERCENT THEORY. Half the time things are better than normal; the other half, they are worse. I believe life is a pendulum swing.

IF I HAVE ONE OPERATING PHILOSOPHY ABOUT LIFE, it is this: "Be cool to the pizza delivery dude; it's good luck." Four principles guide the pizza dude philosophy.

Without time and space, nothing can change, and without change, it is hard to imagine any reality worth imagining.

There is perhaps no topic more widely discussed among theologians, philosophers and scientists of nearly all times and all cultures than the origin of the Universe.

The world's a puzzle; no need to make sense out of it." - Socrates

I waver between a cop-out agnostic and principled atheism

You will never get death out of your system.

Pocos han tratado la tensión entre nuestras diferentes identidades —local, nacional y global— con tanta profundidad como el filósofo Kwame Anthony Appiah. En esta época de «desafíos planetarios e interconexión entre países —escribió en respuesta a la afirmación de May—, nunca ha sido tan necesario como ahora el sentimiento de un destino humano común».48 Es difícil no estar de acuerdo.

No obstante, los cosmopolitas son vistos como el personaje de Los hermanos Karamazov, de Fiódor Dostoievski, que descubre que cuanto más ama a la humanidad en general, menos ama a la gente en particular.

But no moral philosopher, from Aristotle to Aquinas, to John Locke and Adam Smith, divorced economics from a set of moral ends or held the production of wealth to be an end in itself; rather it was seen as a means to the realization of virtue, a means of leading a civilized life.

You see now how little nature requires, to be satisfied. Felicity, the companion of content, is rather found in our own breasts than in the enjoyment of external things, and I firmly believe it requires but a little philosophy to make a man happy in whatsoever state he is. This consists in a full resignation to the will of Providence, and a resigned soul finds pleasure in a path strewed with briers and thorns.

Epictetus, who said, "It's not events, but our opinions about them, which cause us suffering.

Banks listed the conventional-wisdom explanations for the Renaissance: Prosperity, which provided money and markets to support art Peace, which provided the stability to seek artistic and philosophical progress Freedom, which liberated artists from state or religious control Social mobility, which allowed talented poor people to enter the arts The paradigm thing, which brought new perspectives and mediums that created a wave of originality and expression.

Philosophers' Syndrome: mistaking a failure of imagination for an insight into necessity.

How do we know that even the realest of realities wouldn't be subjective, in the final analysis? Nobody can prove his existence, can he?

As the philosopher John Stuart Mill wrote, "It is better to be a human being dissatisfied than a pig satisfied; better to be Socrates dissatisfied than a fool satisfied. And if the fool, or the pig, are a different opinion, it is because they know only their own side of the question.

Who thus define it, say they more or less / Than this, that happiness is happiness?

Stuart Mill wrote, 'It is better to be a human being dissatisfied than a pig satisfied; better to be Socrates dissatisfied than a fool satisfied. And if the fool, or the pig, are of a different opinion, it is because they only know their own side of the question.

It is better to be a human being dissatisfied than a pig satisfied; better to be Socrates dissatisfied than a fool satisfied. And if the fool, or the pig, are a different opinion, it is because they only know their own side of the question."14

the Reggio Emilia philosophy for the education of young children and the Waldorf schools.

All deep structure regrets reveal a need and yield a lesson. With moral regrets, the need is goodness. The lesson, which we've heard in religious texts, philosophy tracts, and parental admonitions, is this: when in doubt, do the right thing.

All things are born from the mind of god. But in the last month, the mind of god has gone insane.

I do engineering, not religion.

If a tree falls in a forest and no one is there to hear it, does it make a sound? (The question was first posed by the Irish philosopher George Berkeley.) Simply, no—sound is a mental image created by the brain in response to vibrating molecules. Similarly, there can be no pitch without a human or animal present. A suitable measuring device can register the frequency made by the tree falling, but truly it is not pitch unless and until it is heard.