Quotes About Philosophy

As Schopenhauer remarked: 'With possession, or the certain expectation of it, our demands immediately increase and this increases our capacity for further possessions and greater expectation…to attain something desired is to discover how vain it is.

Bohr: You never cared what got destroyed on the way, though. As long as the mathematics worked out you were satisfied. Heisenberg: If something works it works. Bohr: But the question is always, What does the mathematics mean, in plain language? What are the philosophical implications?" Excerpt From: Michael Frayn. "Copenhagen

I shatter the objective universe around you—and all you can say is that there's an error in the formulation!" Excerpt From: Michael Frayn. "Copenhagen".

Wilde's definition of a cynic (someone who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing), and

Did she herself even believe in God anymore? Why argue over a phantom? They were two fools arguing over lies.

I don't believe in morality in architecture.

Karl Rahner said, 'I don't believe in miracles, but they sustain me.

Amor fati. Love your fate. A friend of mine used to say that. The secret of happiness.

there is no metaphysically neutral starting point from which science can lift itself up by its own intellectual bootstraps.

They were diverse when it came to religion, age, economic status, philosophy, and race.

John Locke's guiding axiom was that all men have a natural right to the fruits of their labor. A corollary to this logic was that landlords have a right only to what they themselves produce, not to exploit and appropriate the labor of their tenants:

Why is it so hard to explain the basis of state authority? The most likely reason is that there is no explanation for political authority, because political authority is a fiction.

The same goes for such nonsense sentences as "Time is a concept", "Infinity is a concept", and "God is a concept". Those are all category errors.

The king of Siam once asked his wise men for a proverb that would be appropriate for any occasion. They suggested "This, too, shall pass". Well, in biochemistry an equally appropriate saying for all occasions is "Things are more complicated than they seem".

He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has. — EPICTETUS, Greek philosopher

Philosophy is an operation that of itself produces nothing; it operates on the basis of truths subtracted from the event.

The entire concept of pessimism crumbles the moment one human being puts aside thoughts of self and reaches out to another to minister to her suffering. The experience of either person can neither be denied nor adequately explained by a negative philosophy.

T]he commitment to a framework neutral among ends can be seen as a kind of value [...] but its value consists precisely in its refusal to affirm a preferred way of life or conception of the good.

This line of reasoning leads Kant to the second formulation of the categorical imperative: "Act in such a way that you always treat humanity, whether in your own person or in the person of any other, never simply as a means, but always at the same time as an end."23 This is the formula of humanity as an end.

The debate over the priority of the right over the good is ultimately a debate about the meaning of human freedom.

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.

If moral reflection consists in seeking a fit between the judgments we make and the principles we affirm, how can such reflection lead us to justice, or moral truth?

ancient theories of justice start with virtue, while modern theories start with freedom. And

Conformity, in Mill's account, is the enemy of the best way to live.