Quotes About Philosophy

Propositional knowledge is justified true belief; it is believing something that is true on the basis of adequate grounds.

J.P. Moreland

Here we must examine the classical understanding of happiness proclaimed by Moses, Solomon, Jesus, Aristotle, Plato, the church fathers and medieval theologians, and many more—the understanding that has recently been replaced by "pleasurable satisfaction." According to the ancients, happiness is a life well lived, a life of virtue and character, a life that manifests wisdom, kindness, and goodness.

What I do reject is the idea that science and science alone can claim to give us knowledge.

Did you know Socrates said we love whatever we lack? Or think we lack? Socrates? If you feel stupid, you'll fall for someone brainy. If you feel ugly, you'll flip your lid for someone who's easy on the eyes.

Yeah, says the Newsday reporter, he's a real pacifist. He's the Gandhi of Gangsters.

It is a doctrine worthy only of a swine to suppose that life has…no higher end than pleasure – no better and nobler object of desire and pursuit.

No god should ever be invoked to inflict harm.

If prevision be a fact, it is a fact which destroys absolutely the entire basis of all our past opinions of the universe.

I cared not a whit whether Time were "a form of thought," or an aspect of reality, or (this was later) compoundable with Space. What I wanted to know was: How it got mixed?

Who made these laws? That's what I want to know. So that's why I wear two crosses now. I call it double cross. I believe in God-not religion.

Philosophy remains true to its classic tradition by renouncing it.

Descartes' s faith in his assertion "I think, therefore I am" may be superseded by a more primitive affirmation that is part of the genetic makeup of all mammals: "I feel, therefore I am."34 Evolutionary

Tõestuse puudumine ei ole puudumise tõestus.

Keel on kompromiss, et kirjeldada piiratud arvu märkidega lõputult muutlikku maailma.

Growing old is a case of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.

Can something that does not exist be able to break? It is an interesting question." "More like the sort of question that drives an engineer crazy.

Booker T. Washington, Buddha, John Dewey, Leo Buscaglia, Moses and Jesus.

The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it. Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

The Book of Five Rings, by Miyamoto Musashi,

Albert Einstein said that the single most important question is whether the universe is friendly. I think it is important for everybody to come to a point where they feel inside that the universe is friendly.

There is nothing wrong with you that reincarnation won't cure.

As Einstein himself pointed out. He said we're like people in a boat without oars drifting along a winding river. Around us we see only the present. We can't see the past, back in the bends and curves behind us. But it's there.

Serious people have few ideas," said Paul Valéry. "People with ideas are never serious.