Quotes About Philosophy

It is now no mystery that some quite influential philosophers were mentally ill.

Indeed neither life nor science bothers about "essences"-they leave "essences" to metaphysics, which is neither life nor science.

Logic is the youth of mathematics, mathematics is the manhood of logic." This brilliant mot of the eminent philosopher of mathematics is no

Ethics is too fundamentally important a factor in civilization to depend upon a theological or a legal excuse; [pg 035] ethics must conform to the natural laws of human nature.

There are two ways to slide easily through life: to believe everything or to doubt everything; both ways save us from thinking.

There are two ways to slide easily through life: Namely, to believe everything, or to doubt everything; both ways save us from thinking.

The demiurge is a hybrid

Acaso el último y verdadero sentido de la creación del artista consista en extender un velo sobre el sinsentido de la vida.

Let us alone. Time driveth onward fast,And in a little while our lips are dumb.Let us alone. What is it that will last?All things are taken from us, and becomePortions and parcels of the dreadful Past.

We cannot think first and act afterward. From the moment of birth we are immersed in action, and can only fitfully guide it by taking thought.

It is not paradox to say that in our most theoretical moods we may be nearest to our most practical applications

It is a safe rule to apply that, when a mathematical or philosophical author writes with a misty profundity, he is talking nonsense.

The deliberate aim at Peace very easily passes into its bastard substitute, Anesthesia.

No period of history has ever been great or ever can be that does not act on some sort of high, idealistic motives, and idealism in our time has been shoved aside, and we are paying the penalty for it.

Beware the fallacy of misplaced concreteness.

Every philosophy is tinged with the coloring of some secret imaginative background, which never emerges explicitly into its train of reasoning.

Human life is driven forward by its dim apprehension of notions too general for its existing language.

Philosophy is the product of wonder.

The misconception which has haunted philosophic literature throughout the centuries is the notion of 'independent existence.' There is no such mode of existence; every entity is to be understood in terms of the way it is interwoven with the rest of the universe.

Philosophy begins in wonder. And at the end when philosophic thought has done its best the wonder remains.

the only simplicity to be trusted is the simplicity to be found on the far side of complexity.

There are no whole truths; all truths are half-truths. It is trying to treat them as whole truths that plays the devil.

The point about zero is that we do not need to use it in the operation of daily life. No one goes out to buy zero fish.

We cannot think first and act afterwards. From the moment of birth we are immersed in action and can only guide it by taking thought.