Quotes About Philosophy

In every tool we create, an idea is embedded that goes beyond the function of the thing itself.

We believe there are certain things people "have," certain things people "do," and even certain things people "are." These beliefs do not necessarily reflect the structure of reality they simply reflect an habitual way of talking about reality.

Thou shalt not write down thy principles, still less print them, lest thou shall be entrapped by them for all time.

For on television, discourse is conducted largely through visual imagery, which is to say that television gives us a conversation in images, not words. The emergence of the image-manager in the political arena and the concomitant decline of the speech writer attest to the fact that television demands a different kind of content from other media. You cannot do political philosophy on television. Its form works against the content.

Every philosophy is the philosophy of a stage of life, Nietzsche remarked.

The cosmos offers no absolute confirmations

La aparición en la arena política del asesor de imagen y el simultáneo declive del redactor de discursos atestiguan el hecho de que la televisión demanda un contenido que difiere del exigido por los otros medios. No se puede hacer filosofía política en televisión porque su forma conspira contra el contenido.

theory includes a transcendent idea, as do all great world narratives.

In tabulating the cost of technological progress, Freud takes a rather depressing line, that of a man who agrees with Thoreau's remark that our inventions are but improved means to an unimproved end.

Digo a meus alunos que isto é uma metáfora para a vida: seguimos pensando que nada será diferente, até o dia em que tudo muda repentinamente de uma vez.

set a cat among the philosophical pigeons.

The thing about my music is, there really is no point.

The book doesn't preach; it just offers up another way of looking at life.

Everything can't be explained by some general biological phrase.

We aim at simplicity and hope for truth.

We make versions, and true versions make worlds.

But I had little knowledge of Marxism, and in political discussions with my communist friends I found myself handicapped by my ignorance of their philosophy. I decided to remedy this.

Great thinking comes from a great mind

Be absolute for death; for either death or life shall be the sweeter.

A philosopher once noted that something is odd if a person is not liberal when he is young and conservative when he is old.

Tanto la ley como la filosofía plantean la pregunta: "Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?" (¿Quién vigila a los vigilantes?).

The Human Being, as we imagine it, does not exist.

Creo que todo cuanto la imaginación humana ha representado es verdad

When things like this happen there's just nothing to be done about it; even suffering itself is a mere waste of time.