Quotes About Philosophy

A filosofia começa no momento em que cessa o divertimento.

A arte mais fina não reside na habilidade das construções lógicas, mas em certo contacto que se espera manter sempre com o real.

Actually, the gap between say Plato or Nietzsche and the average human is greater than the gap between that chimpanzee and the average human.

Thomistic synthesis.

No belief, James thought, is justified by its correspondence with reality, because mirroring reality is not the purpose of having minds.

If behaving as though we had free will or God exists gets us results we want, we will not only come to believe those things; they will be, pragmatically, true.

Waarom moet ieder mens geschokt en geslingerd worden tussen een wereld hier, een wereld van zavel en cement, bloed, zenuwen, telefoonpalen en zonde, mensen die geboren worden en mensen die sterven, en een andere wereld die in onze gedachten spookt zonder te weten of zoiets bestaat, bestaan heeft of ooit zal komen?

In a way, it made him sad. He couldn't help but think that a hundred times zero was still nothing.

Fueron desterrados —le corrigió Yandros, con una malévola sonrisa—. No destruidos. No se puede destruir lo que es fundamental en el Universo, Keridil Toln; solamente se puede apartar del campo de conflicto durante un tiempo.

When reading, one needs to remember that poets and philosophers are not prescribing courses of action but exploring aspects of existence.

The three weapons to use against axe cuts are: (a) sense enough not to get cut, (b) a good working knowledge of how to apply a tourniquet, if the worst occurs, and (c) a philosophical attitude.

I prefer to have some beliefs that don't make logical sense.

Sorrow is wisdom, the poet said.

Life is loss. But out of that, as the book stresses, comes freedom. If we can accept that nothing is permanent, and change is inevitable, if we can adapt, then we're going to be happier people.

We love life, thought Reine-Marie as she watched Ruth and Rosa sitting side by side, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. Nietzsche. How Armand would kid her if he knew she was quoting Nietzsche, even to herself.

if a woman was ever driven so far as to pick up a weapon, she would be the most committed, the least likely to ever give up. Kill the women first. Lacoste still hated the advice. The simplicity of it. The baldness. But she also hated that the philosophy behind it was almost certainly true.

Miss Neal's was not a natural death, unless you're of the belief everything happens as it's supposed to.

I'm not sure if you realize that mathematics isn't linear. It's a curve. And in the brightest, most nimble minds, it arcs around to meet philosophy, music, art." She laced her fingers together. "They're intertwined. If you listen to Bach, it's as much a work of math as music.

four sentences that lead to wisdom.

I think Brother Albert hit it on the head. Life is loss. But out of that, as the book stresses, comes freedom. If we can accept that nothing is permanent, and change is inevitable, if we can adapt, then we're going to be happier people.

my beliefs comfort, they don't kill.

There are four statements that lead to wisdom.

When Thoreau was arrested for protesting an injustice, Ralph Waldo Emerson had visited him in prison and said, "Henry, what are you doing in there?" And Thoreau had replied, "Ralph, what are you doing out there?

Philosophizing is simply one way of being afraid, a cowardly pretense that doesn't get you anywhere.