Quotes About Philosophy

Everyday objects shriek aloud.

If one looks at a thing with the intention of trying to discover what it means, one ends up no longer seeing the thing itself, but of thinking of the question that is raised.

We spoke of a friend of ours who had died the night before, at forty-three. "But my God! I'm forty-one," a bearded banker said. "Don't worry," his wife, who is German, answered. "There is no order. It is not a line.

The world is everything that is the case. And in the second place because. Did I throw the most important thing perhaps, by accident, away?

In der Tat ist Foucaults Werk ein verwirrendes Labyrinth, in welchem der Autor, der keiner sein will und in Wahrheit nie das ist, was er zunächst zu sein scheint, umherirrt und sich verliert.

But in my opinion, all things in nature occur mathematically.

With me, everything turns into mathematics.

Some years ago I was struck by the large number of falsehoods that I had accepted as true in my childhood, and by the highly doubtful nature of the whole edifice that I had subsequently based on them. I realized that it was necessary, once in the course of my life, to demolish everything completely and start again right from the foundations if I wanted to establish anything at all in the sciences that was stable and likely to last.

But I cannot forget that, at other times I have been deceived in sleep by similar illusions; and, attentively considering those cases, I perceive so clearly that there exist no certain marks by which the state of waking can ever be distinguished from sleep, that I feel greatly astonished; and in amazement I almost persuade myself that I am now dreaming.

I think; therefore I am.

Doubt is the origin of wisdom

The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.

In order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn than to contemplate.

For I found myself embarrassed with so many doubts and errors that it seemed to me that the effort to instruct myself had no effect other than the increasing discovery of my own ignorance

At last I will devote myself sincerely and without reservation to the general demolition of my opinions.

The issue, then, is not, What is the best way to teach? but, What is mathematics really all about?... Controversies about…teaching cannot be resolved without confronting problems about the nature of mathematics.

The philosophy "Do as I say, not as I do" does not work. Modeling is more powerful than words in teaching your children how to behave. Set a good example for your child!

Probably no man will ever corral truth, but Protagoras came closer to it than Plato.

Few of us have enough wisdom for justice, or enough leisure for humanity.

What are you, a scientist, or an artist?" Wolfe was frowning at him. "If you please, Mr. Jarrett, no labels. Labels are for the things men make, not for men. The most primitive man is too complex to be labeled.

Some day, Archie, I shall be constrained Ã¢â'¬Â¦ but no. I cannot remake the universe, and must therefore put up with this one. What is, is, including you." He

At the dinner table, and with coffee in the office afterwards, Wolfe resumed on the subject he had started at lunch—Voltaire. The big question was, could a man be called great on account of the way he used words, even though he was a toady, a trimmer, a forger, and an intellectual fop.

If we are to believe in gods at all, we must believe them to be wiser and better than men.

The way my life goes, I can't tell if there are pits in my cherries or cherries among my pits, philosophically speaking.