Quotes About Philosophy

Subjectivism maintains that there are no objective moral truths.

On the whole, their message to their students remained steady: that science was good and metaphysics was bad. As Neurath put it to Feigl in 1938, "what we have in common will remain; as products of their time, the differences will fade.

One has to read Heidegger in the original to see what a swindler he was," said Popper. His philosophy was "empty verbiage put together in statements which are absolutely empty."19 On this even Carnap—not Popper's biggest fan—concurred.

the idea is that the infinite doesn't stand opposed to anything else—it is all-inclusive—while on the other hand, precisely what that is, is a way of contrasting the infinite with the finite. By definition, you can't contrast the infinite with the finite, although that's exactly what you want to do.

You'll argue he was just Putting into practice The philosophy of eye for eye. Say what you will. I don't mind: But now we know Why Justice is blind.

Life can be beautiful when you understand the inconvenience of being born.

Aquel que vive razonando termina por sentir desprecio en su alma hacia los humanos; aquel que vive atormentado por el fantasma se lo ido no alimenta ilusiones, por los recuerdos abrumado; imprime esto a menudo un gran encanto a las charlas.

J'éprouvais alternativement la nécessité de ressentir l'intensité de la vie, et un sentiment profond de vacuité. Alors, tout me paraissait dérisoire et absurde.

Is it all right to boil a sentient creature alive just for our gustatory pleasure?

Petrarch declared that all money was unstable, whirling away "possibly due to the roundness of the coins," further elaborating that money won by gambling was the least stable of all.

I think I exist, therefore I exist. I think.

I have a very simple philosophy of life: Kindness. Ferocious, unrelenting, ruthless, committed, passionate, kindness. Life is sacred everywhere. We all have better things to do than beat each other up. Arguing for the exception is to invest it with energy, it's to negotiate the loophole. The commitment to kindness must be total.

I lost my spinal column a good many years ago. There ain't no surgery can put it back. Even if there was, I wouldn't want it. I like it better this way. More comfortable.

I did not believe in god, but I was beginning to believe in miracles, miracles and whatever is the opposite of miracles, terrible wonders. Yes, this life is a whirlwind, and what can guide us through it? Not our eyes, not our ears, not our brain. What difference does it make what we believe?

Once, on a sleepless night, I elaborated a whole theory of art predicated on simply reminding the ever-forgetful mind of the most basic truths: We float in water and revolve around the sun. We are born out of a woman's body and are made of meat and bone. One day, pretty soon, we will die.

This mood makes itself felt everywhere, politically, socially, and philosophically. We are living in what the Greeks called the ????óÏ' (Kairos) – the right time – for a "metamorphosis of the gods," i.e. of the fundamental principles and symbols.

Money is not created to earn money.

good' and 'evil' are concepts humans made up in order to compare ourselves with one another. It follows that arguing about whether humans are fundamentally good or evil makes about as much sense as arguing about whether humans are fundamentally fat or thin.

when dealing with the Absolute, there can be no such thing as debt.

human existence is itself a form of debt.

It all makes perfect sense if you start from Nietzsche's initial premise. The problem is that the premise is insane.

Pure greed and pure generosity are complementary concepts; neither could really be imagined without the other;

The very fact that we don't know what debt is, the very flexibility of the concept, is the basis of its power.

The legal and philosophical question then became: what rights do human beings have simply by dint of being human – that is, what rights could they be said to have 'naturally', even if they existed in a State of Nature, innocent of the teachings of written philosophy and revealed religion, and without codified laws?