Quotes About Philosophy

Just carrying a ruler with you in your pocket should be forbidden, at least on a moral basis. The ruler is the symbol of the new illiteracy. The ruler is the symptom of the new disease, disintegration of our civilisation.

I like teams which repeat their style, clubs that are synonymous with one style.

It has been demonstrated that no system, not even the most inhuman, can continue to exist without an ideology.

What does it mean, exactly, for a given system to be a 'neural correlate of consciousness'?

There was a time when 'science' meant the systematic pursuit of knowledge through experimentation and observation. But it's rapidly becoming a synonym for progressive politics and materialist philosophy.

King-ian nonviolence is a way of thinking and living and is not confined to the work of social and systemic change.

The moral systems of religion, I think, are super important.

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Closure is overrated. Closure doesn't exist.

In Buddhist philosophy, the "holding tank" that the body represents is called the alaya, the universal unconscious. As the unconscious, the body holds all the karmic seeds that we ourselves have sown and that must, on our journey to realization, eventually ripen into the light of consciousness to be fully engaged, felt, and thus worked through and completed.

Aristotle urged people to seek "the golden mean" between extremes, "moderation in all things" (which we interpret as including moderation in the pursuit of moderation). But why should this golden mean in general be desirable? Clyde Coombs and George Avrunin (1977) have enunciated a very simple principle that implies moderation: "Good things satiate and bad things escalate.

Infinito —y no histórico— es Aquiles por su cólera y su amor, independientemente de que haya o no existido; como infinito será Cristo por su impracticable filosofía, regístrelo o no la Historia. Esas metáforas, esas imágenes, pertenecen a la eternidad.

Più in alto salivo, più in alto andavo, più mi era chiaro che il mondo sarebbe andato avanti a esistere anche senza di me, e che tutti gli dei sarebbero scomparsi con l'umanità. Perché sono proprio gli uomini che creano gli dei.

Life is a battle between faith and reason in which each feeds upon the other, drawing sustenance from it and destroying it.

Nothing which is true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history therefore we must be saved by faith.

We have, on the whole, more liberty and less equality than Russia has. Russia has less liberty and more equality. Whether democracy should be defined primarily in terms of liberty or equality is a source of unending debate.

There are no simple congruities in life or history. The cult of happiness erroneously assumes them.

Even as rigorous a determinist as Karl Marx, who at times described the social behaviour of the bourgeoisie in terms which suggested a problem in social physics, could subject it at other times to a withering scorn which only the presupposition of moral responsibility could justify.

Doamne, da-mi senitatea de a accepta lucrurile pe care nu le pot schimba, curajul de a schimba lucrurile pe care pot sa le schimb si intelepciunea de a sti sa le deosebesc.

If less is more, maybe nothing is everything.

Ik verveel me niet. Ik ben ongelukkig.' 'Omdat je in geluk gelooft. Iedereen die in geluk gelooft is ongelukkig.

Intelligence is perhaps but a malady,-a beautiful malady; the oyster's pearl.

And there is neither beginning nor end, nor past nor future; there is only a present, at the same time static and ephemeral, multiple and absolute. It is the vital ocean in which we all share, according to our strength, our needs or our desires.

C'est le passé. L'avenir sombre dans le passé dès qu'il a cessé d'être futur. Le présent n'existe pas. Vouloir l'éterniser, c'était éterniser le néant. C'est ce que j'ai fait !