Quotes About Philosophy

Clearly the world wasn't as natural as we had always assumed. Someone or something had designed it, a joker perhaps, or if geology really was responsible, then blind physical forces had no less a sense of humour than the gods, which is not implausible.

Maybe. Occam's disposable Bic razor might suggest so.

La ambigüedad desempeña un papel central e imprescindible, y su carácter universal no refleja otra cosa que su inevitabilidad.

Wise is the man who contents himself with the spectacle of the world.

Sábio é o que se contenta com o espetáculo do mundo

Wise is he who is satisfied with the spectacle of the world.

Vivir era estarse muriendo y morir era empezar la vida, morir era empezar en serio y vivir era perder el tiempo

aunque mi papá no crea en la nostalgia ni en el rencor «porque el tiempo no existe», y el pasado está a punto de pasar, y el presente es el futuro: 3:00 p.m.

El tiempo no existe —anota en las hojas de papel periódico que siempre ha usado— porque no sólo es una ficción, sino que le ha estado sucediendo a cada cual». Sin embargo, son las 8:30 p.m.

I believe what I believe is what makes me what I am

Would I be any less real if I lived only in your mind?

Nllum magnum ingenium sine mixtr dmentiae fuit. (Seneca

Bonus vir nm est nisi qu bonus est omnibus. (Publilius Sent.)

Facis tua computat anns. (Juvenal

In edem es nv. (Cicero Fam.

There is no reason why pragmatists steeped in Darwinism should not be reactionary or conservative, and so it is no surprise that some have been.

Reality is divinely indifferent.

As Socrates said when his wife first railed at him, and next threw a vessel of foul water upon him, "I thought when I heard the thunder, there would come rain

The fact was, the Senate's "advise and consent" was intended, from the start, to forestall the President from remaking the Court in his image. The Senate had, for most of its two hundred years, scrutinized the philosophy and politics of nominees—not just their competence, or honesty. And when a President picked a justice for reasons of ideology, it was the Senate's duty to examine that ideology.

Linda is thirty-one years old, single, outspoken, and very bright. She majored in philosophy. As a student she was deeply concerned with issues of discrimination and social justice and also participated in anti-nuclear demonstrations. Which of two alternatives is more probable? A. Linda is a bank teller. B. Linda is a bank teller and is active in the feminist movement.

I'm in a constant process of thinking about things.

Probably the closest things to perfection are the huge absolutely empty holes that astronomers have recently discovered in space. If there's nothing there, how can anything go wrong?

God, to me, it seems, is a verb, not a noun, proper or improper.

Moreover, that materialism is absolute, for we cannot allow a Divine Foot in the door.