Quotes About Philosophy

A little meditation in the morning or evening, an hour of church on the occasional Sunday morning, sponsor a hungry kid, a little reading or discussion now and then, and our spiritual itch is adequately scratched. No one gets hurt or does anything crazy; certainly no one unplugs themselves from the great hive and wanders off on their own.

The truth is that no belief is true, and to say that any belief is true is to open the floodgates and say that all beliefs are true.

Secondly, is there "something" to be defined or translated? Derrida resisted the suggestion that there is a concept of deconstruction, simply present to the word, outside of the word's inscription in sentences and phrases determined by the undecidables. There's no such concept simply to pass over into other words, other languages.

Unformed, monstrous, and perhaps unidentifiable, deconstruction has moved virally through fields beyond philosophy and theory. Derrida advanced its progress in architecture, art, politics and law. And especially, in literature…

Jeff Goldblum

It's not the value of the gift, but the philosophy of the giving and receiving," Francis replied. "It's a hard world, all in all, and to receive a present means someone else cares for you, that you're not alone.

Life's too short for doubt, and yet too long for faith.

I used to think of them as prolegomena for a book; now I would see a book as prolegomena for the notes.

A positive philosophy turns into a positive attitude, which turns into positive actions, which turns into positive results, which turns into a positive lifestyle. A positive life. And a negative philosophy turns into a negative attitude, which turns into negative actions, which turns into negative results, which turns into a negative lifestyle.

Your philosophy is your view of life, something beyond feelings and attitudes. Your philosophy drives your attitudes and feelings, which drive your actions.

People who only consider current thought gain information at the expense of wisdom.

Borne made me happy, but happiness never made anyone less stupid

What does the border look like?" A child's question. A question whose answer means nothing. There is nothing but border. There is no border.

What's wrong with asking questions?" "Nothing." Everything. Once the questions snuck in, whatever had been certain became uncertain. Questions opened the way for doubt.

The linguist still believed in the superstition of logic

In other words, we must distrust the rational, the logical, the sane, in an attempt to reach for something higher, for something more worthy.

Hobbes is not an absolutist precisely because he is an authoritarian. His scepticism about the power of reasoning, which applied no less to the 'artificial reason' of the Sovereign than to the reasoning of the natural man, together with the rest of his individualism, separate him from the rationalist dictators of his or any age. Indeed, Hobbes, without being himself a liberal, had in him more of the philosophy of liberalism than most of its professed defenders

Fighting isn't all there is to the Art of War. The men who think that way, and are satisfied to have food to eat and a place to sleep, are mere vagabonds. A serious student is much more concerned with training his mind and disciplining his spirit than with developing martial skills.

Thomas Jefferson

La distinción entre pasado, presente y futuro es sólo una ilusión.

The point is best made by Aristotle, who supposedly asked, "Would you rather be a happy pig or an unhappy human?" HSPs prefer the good feeling of being very conscious, very human, even if what we are conscious of is not always cause for rejoicing.

A tökéletesség nem a mi világunkhoz tartozik. Más, mint a mi világunk, vagy máshonnan ered.

Each organism raises its head over a field of corpses, smiles into the sun, and declares life good.

I've nothing, am nothing, shall be nothing, and yet I take nothing.