Quotes About Philosophy

Money for me today does not really matter.

The most profound radicalism is often the most profound conservatism.

All we need to know is that beauty is truth, said Keats, and I'm sorry to sound callous, but what he actually needed to know was the cure for his general malaise and for the illness that eventually killed him, aged twenty-five. *

All those formal systems, in mathematics and physics and the philosophy of science, which claim to give foundations for certain truth are surely mistaken. I am tempted to say that we do not look for truth, but for knowledge. But I dislike this form of words, for two reasons. First of all, we do look for truth, however we define it, it is what we find that is knowledge. And second, what we fail to find is not truth, but certainty; the nature of truth is exactly the knowledge that we do find.

to terrify children with hell is that good for the world

There is no difference in principle, ... between the economic philosophy of Nazism, socialism, communism, and fascism and that of the American welfare state and regulated economy.

Real philosophy is dense, impenetrable, so esoteric as to be unknown and so obscure as to be irrelevant... Maybe what I do is trivial, the philosophical equivalent of a Big Mac and fries

It's the role of narrative to... bridge the gap between philosophy as abstract theory, ideas in the ether, and life as lived on the ground.

Paradójicamente, a partir de que el hombre adjudicó a la materia el papel que le correspondía a la Conciencia como origen de todas las cosas, perdió la posibilidad de explicar su propia existencia, cuando su motivación era precisamente entenderla.

Man is only miserable so far as he thinks himself so.

Le langage est, en effet, l'instrument même de la pensée, et le seul moyen de lui donner des contours fermes.

Is there a satisfaction in the effort of remembering that provides its own nourishment, and is what one recollects less important than the act of remembering? That is another question that will remain unanswered: I feel as though I am made of nothing else.

Bro, how you doing? You holding on? Man, you know how it goes. One day chicken. Next day bone. Two old men talking

This infuriated my father, who said BYU was a "meat market" and that if Heavenly Father didn't intend women to understand economics, why did He give them charge of households, and if women weren't intended to understand philosophy, why were they the first teachers of the word, and if they weren't intended to practice psychology, why did the Lord intend they should be mothers?

The inexorable boredom that is at the core of life.

Taking a preponderance of courses capped at fifteen or so undergraduates is important. Studying with faculty who are well treated by the institution and incentivized to work with you is important. Having the opportunity to be mentored by professors is important. Knowing an institution's pedagogical philosophy is important. Attending a school with a genuine culture of teaching is most important of all.

There is nothing outside of the text.

What cannot be said above all must not be silenced but written.

The traditional statement about language is that it is in itself living, and that writing is the dead part of language.

I rightly pass for an atheist.

Il n'y a pas de hors-texte.

La poésie […] n'existe, ne s'absente, ne surgit, que pour refuser la réponse. Et pour s'approcher de la question[…] elle ne réponde pas aux questions, elles les pose.

L'impossible et l'ineffaçable: le réel»

I don't disbelieve in anything, Mr. Hatch," and The Thinking Machine regarded the newspaper man quietly. "I don't even disbelieve in what is broadly termed the supernatural-I merely don't know. It