Quotes About Philosophy

For Aristotle, politics is about something higher. It's about learning how to live a good life.

Nó không d?y chúng ta cách phân bi?t Ä'úng sai, mà "ch? làm th? nào ?? tính toán gi?i hÆ¡n".

cuanto más nos concebimos como seres hechos a sí mismos y autosuficientes, más difícil nos resulta aprender gratitud y humildad. Y, sin estos dos sentimientos, cuesta mucho preocuparse por el bien común.

Khi tr??ng thành, h?u h?t chúng ta m?t Ä'i cách nhìn th? giá»›i tá»± nhiên nhÆ° th?, má»™t th? giá»›i duyên dáng nhÆ°ng k? l?.

I dream therefore I am." - Marge to her young son Mikee

What I'm concerned about is the people who don't dwell on the meaninglessness of their lives, or the meaningfulness of it-who just pursue mindless entertainment.

Trump liked what he heard—not just about the case, but the whole "go to hell" philosophy. From that moment, he adopted the Cohn playbook: when attacked, counterattack with overwhelming force. One of the most influential relationships in Trump's life was now under way.

Still more striking is the fact that Kant unites epistemology and ethics specifically through the concept of law.

He admits that "such a method" of somehow thinking together the philosophical foundations and the hermeneutical articulations in terms of the Holocaust is "circular," but, he says, "provided this circle is recognized, and the recognition of it permeates the whole discourse, it merely illustrates . . . that a philosophical writer with a systematic purpose cannot say everything that needs to be said

An idea, as Kant uses the term, is a representation of a "totality of conditions to a given conditioned thing," made possible by an unconditioned condition or absolute.

He wrote about this claim, that the evils of Auschwitz could not be assimilated into the Hegelian system and hence by implication by any philosophical thought and indeed by any thought at all, briefly in his book The Religious Dimension of Hegel's Thought, published in 1968, and then again in an essay, "Would Hegel Today Be a Hegelian?

But if the threat to philosophy and thought in general was radical, could there still be hope for the future? Could one go on after Auschwitz without capitulating wholly to its evil, to its negativity, to its destruction of our categories and principles? For Jews, what could remain of the ideas of salvation and redemption? Did integrity require complete despair?

Consequently, no idea – no complete series of answers to why-questions – can ever be an object of human knowledge. Yet, Kant argues, without ideas morality would be impossible:

Sometimes I wonder if we live life by reliving life, rather than by living life.

Good-bye—if you hear of my being stood up against a Mexican stone wall and shot to rags please know that I think that a pretty good way to depart this life. It beats old age, disease, or falling down the cellar stairs. —AMBROSE BIERCE

There are situations in which torture is not merely permissible but morally mandatory.

Conservatism is progressivism driving the speed limit.

My position is that Rand doesn't have all the right answers, but she does have all the right questions

As the motto went, "Communism is 20th century Americanism.

I guess, like some guy once said, if triangles invented a god, the chances are high it would have three sides.

Each young person is a poet of sorts, trying to sort out the poetics of their inner life and its relation to the great world around it. Each elder is a philosopher of sorts, trying to sort out the meanings and gleanings of a life as well as the necessary implications of the presence of death.

I think of myself as a bad writer with big ideas, but I'd rather be that than a big writer with bad ideas.

To put the point facetiously, one could say that Hegel began his career a Marxist and later became a Hegelian.

To define a thing is to see it clearly, to see it as distinct from other things and at the same time to see its exact relationship with other things: for a thing is its relations and activities.