Quotes About Philosophy

It turns out that to be a different kind of parent, you don't just need a different parenting philosophy. You need a very different view of what a child actually is.

Perhaps he was recalling the German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer, who wrote in the nineteenth century: "When we are ascending the hill of life, death is not visible: it lies down at the bottom of the other side. But once we have crossed the top of the hill, death comes in view—death, which, until then, was known to us only by hearsay.")

It quickly becomes clear that having a child in France doesn't require choosing a parenting philsophy.

Nu sunt obi?nuit s? privesc via?a ca pe o iesle ?i o cresc?torie

What's crucial about Rousseau, and many of his ideological successors, is that politics was always personal for him, unlike those whom Tocqueville faulted for indulging abstract theories.

Pankaj Mishra

equally eagerly from the nineteenth-century polymath Herbert Spencer, the first truly global thinker – who, after reading Darwin, coined the term 'survival of the fittest'. Hitler revered Atatürk (literally, 'the father of the Turks') as his guru; Lenin and Gramsci were keen on Taylorism, or 'Americanism'; American New Dealers later adapted Mussolini's 'corporatism'.

There is, plainly, no deep logic to the unfolding of time.

Nothing is permanent. This is the central teaching of the Buddha. Not a career, not an institution, not a wife, not a tree ... All is change; change is the only truth.

L'alterco si spegne, i due si guardano, poi scoppiano a ridere. Uno dice: "Egyna Tourkos", mi sono infuriato come un turco. L'altro: "Scusa, mi sono comportato come un Vlaho", un montanaro. Ecco, la Grecia è anche questo. Eraclito che scrive: "Da ciò che è in lotta nasce la più bella armonia. Tutto si realizza attraverso la discordia".

Many have said of Alchemy, that it is for the making of gold and silver. For me such is not the aim, but to consider only what virtue and power may lie in medicines.

Sorcery has been called Magic: but Magic is Wisdom, and there is no wisdom in Sorcery

ontology, epistemology, pedagogy, and ethics

We can speak and think only of what exists. And what exists is uncreated and imperishable for it is whole and unchanging and complete. It was not or nor shall be different since it is now, all at once, one and continuous.

Ex nihilo nihil fit

To be and to have meaning are the same.

Wherefore all these things are but the names which mortals have given, believing them to be true

Thou canst not recognize not-being (for this is impossible), nor couldst thou speak of it, for thought and being are the same thing.

for "to be thought" and "to be" are the same thing.

Tis necessary for thee to learn all things, both the abiding essence of persuasive truth, and men's opinions in which rests no true belief

It is the same thing that can be thought and for the sake of which the thought exists;

to gar auto noein estin te kai einai

Nada ocurre realmente en el Universo: todo está aquí y ahora".

Or how could it come into being ? If it came into being, it is not; nor is it if it is going to be in the future. Thus is becoming extinguished and passing away not to be heard of Nor is it divisible, since it is all alike, and there is no more of it in one place than in another, to hinder it from holding together, nor less of it, but everything is full of what is.