Quotes About Philosophy

I reflect that all art, all beauty, is reflection.

the "human need for transcendence should be met with minimal embarrassments to reason,

Premature formulations based on a vision of reality that has been artificially censored to exclude data that fall outside the personal philosophy of the investigator must lead to dead-end conclusions.

The special virtue of freedom is not that it makes you richer and more powerful but that it gives you more time to understand what it means to be alive.

As Chris Granger, executive vice president at the NBA, explains, "Talented people are attracted to those who care about them. When you help someone get promoted out of your team, it's a short-term loss, but it's a clear long-term gain. It's easier to attract people, because word gets around that your philosophy is to help people.

Then again, you only live a few times, so why not be happy? Why be hard on yourself? Why be hard on yourself for who you had been in a previous life? Why be hard on yourself for who you had been before you'd understood the laws? Especially when you couldn't—if you were being honest with yourself—you couldn't really be sure you understood the laws now? Like maybe the laws weren't even

Czucie i wiara silniej mówi do mnie Ni? m?drca szkie?ko i oko.

When God is dead, kindness is permitted. When God is dead, kindness is all that people have.

As a system of philosophy it is not like the Tower of Babel, so daring its high aim as to seek a shelter against God's anger but it is like a pyramid poised on its apex.

Happiness never lays its finger on its pulse.

On the road from the City of Skepticism, I had to pass through the Valley of Ambiguity. (Powers of Mind, 1975)

All for ourselves, and nothing for other people, seems, in every age of the world, to have been the vile maxim of the masters of mankind.

De la paleta de conceptos que estudia la filosofía política, este libro analiza cinco: la justicia social, la libertad, la igualdad, la comunidad y la democracia.

Yo, por mi parte, no pienso tan austeramente como usted; me limito a actuar de la misma manera en que usted piensa.

Inspiration as the primary source of artistic creativity is no more than an attractive fiction, for spontaneity plays as relatively minor a role in art as it does in philosophical and scientific thinking.

No es cierto que la idea de responsabilidad presupone la idea de la personalidad?

Ideas and philosophical systems, as well as movements grounded on a definite spiritual foundation, whether true or not, can never be broken by the use of force after a certain stage, except on one condition: namely, that this use of force is in the service of a new creative idea or worldview.

La gran masa de un pueblo no se compone de filósofos y es principalmente para las masas para quienes la fe constituye la única base de una ideología moral. Los diversos sustitutos no han probado su eficiencia ni su conveniencia, para que se hubiera podido ver en ellos una provechosa compensación de las creencias religiosas existentes.

Non si può valutare l'importanza del teorico dalla realizzazione dei suoi scopi ma soltanto dalla loro verità e dall'influenza che esercitano

The significance of a political philosopher does not depend on the practical success of the plans he lays down but rather on their absolute truth and the influence they exert on the progress of mankind. If

The test of greatness as applied to a political leader is the success of his plans and his enterprises, which means his ability to reach the goal for which he sets out; whereas the final goal set up by the political philosopher can never be reached; for human thought may grasp truths and picture ends which it sees like clear crystal, though such ends can never be completely fulfilled because human nature is weak and imperfect. The

Hatred toward reifying psychology removes from the living that which would make them other than reified.

Life is a cascade of nows falling on top of one another without meaning or purpose. Of all the philosophers, only Schopenhauer ever got that right.

I may be a pessimist, but the philosophy of anti-thrift just now coming into being seems to me the greatest danger to the peace of the world.