Quotes About Philosophy

By this law—first conceiving, then becoming that conceived—all things evolve out of No-thing; and without this sequence there is not anything made that is made.

The source of the famous Golden Rule. Many famous lines were variations on this theme.

Ah," said Dr. Hart, "this is a pet theory of my own. The actual 'he' is known to nobody." "Does the actual 'he' even exist?" Jonathan returned. "May it not be argued that 'he' has no intrinsic reality since different selfs arise out of a conglomeration of selfs to meet different events?

Is it Locke who says that it is one thing to show a man he is in error and another to convince him of the truth? You have shown me my error. Pray reveal the whole truth.

The great thinkers of the eighteenth century were also pioneering tourists

The basis of the Philosophy of Impossible Standard is that no matter how hard you try you can't ever be good enough. The Standard raises as you do. (…) The Philosophy allows for only one result: we fail the Standard.

that easy Irishry that shrugs its shoulders at the practical world and goes on down the road in the cool of an evening whistling a tune.

Peygamberlik, Zerdü?tlük, medyumluk taslamadan içinde bulundu?umuz labirentin giri?ini ve ç?k???n? ar?yorum.

He also told me he'd just written the epitaph for his tomb: LO PEOR YA PASO. PEOR HUMILLACION QUE LA DE EXISTIR NO HAY. THE WORST IS BEHIND. THERE IS NO HUMILIATION WORSE THAN EXISTENCE

Something Like That PARRA LAUGHS like he's condemned to hell but when haven't poets laughed? at least he declares that he's laughing

Convénzanse que no hay dios.

XIV Solo con la belleza me conformo La fealdad me produce dolor I go along only with beauty Ugliness hurts me.

Yo no me pongo triste fácilmente Para serles sincero Hasta las calaveras me dan risa.

Oh, happiness," said Frieda. "That's not what this is about.

Many have imagined republics and principalities which have never been seen or known to exist in reality; for how we live is so far removed from how we ought to live, that he who abandons what is done for what ought to be done, will rather bring about his own ruin than his preservation.

More valuable than treasures in a storehouse are the treasures of the body. The most valuable of all are the treasures of the heart.

Buddhism is reason. Reason will win over your lord.

The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.

Descartes may have been wrong about dualism, but he appears to have been correct in believing that our thoughts can exert a physical influence on, or at least cause a physical reaction in, our brains. We become, neurologically, what we think.

When, in an 1892 lecture before a group of teachers, William James declared that "the art of remembering is the art of thinking," he was stating the obvious.14 Now, his words seem old-fashioned. Not only has memory lost its divinity; it's well on its way to losing its humanness. Mnemosyne has become a machine.

Every intellectual technology, to put it another way, embodies an intellectual ethic, a set of assumptions about how the human mind works or should work.

It's easy, today, to chuckle at Aristotle's error. But it's also easy to understand how the great philosopher was led so far astray. The brain, packed neatly into the bone-crate of the skull, gives us no sensory signal of its existence. We feel our heart beat, our lungs expand, our stomach churn—but our brain, lacking motility and having no sensory nerve endings, remains imperceptible to us. The source of consciousness lies beyond the grasp of consciousness.

We've reached the point where a Rhodes Scholar like Florida State's Joe O'Shea—a philosophy major, no less—is comfortable admitting not only that he doesn't read books but that he doesn't see any particular need to read them.

We feel our heart beat, our lungs expand, our stomach churn—but our brain, lacking motility and having no sensory nerve endings, remains imperceptible to us. The source of consciousness lies beyond the grasp of consciousness.