Quotes About Philosophy

It was also Hegel who established the view that the different philosophic systems that we find in history are to be comprehended in terms of development and that they are generally one-sided because they owe their origins to a reaction against what has gone before.

Human beliefs, like all other natural growths, elude the barrier of systems.

The crisis that the world finds itself in as it swings on the hinge of a new millennium is located in something deeper than particular ways of organizing political systems and economies.

It has generally been assumed that of two opposing systems of philosophy, e.g., realism and idealism, one only can be true and one must be false; and so philosophers have been hopelessly divided on the question, which is the true one.

I always give RZA that support as far as saying he brought Wu-Tang to the table. It was his philosophy. He picked certain dudes to be part of this group, and he said, 'This is what it's going to be called.'

I constantly want to know - what is a table, or what is a cat?

Common sense says that chairs and tables exist independently of whether anyone happens to perceive them or not.

In Arab Islamic society, it is traditionally taboo to criticize the lifestyle or personal philosophy of any practicing Muslim.

When 'Apollo 13' appeared as an opportunity and I began to tackle that in as authentic a way as I possibly could, I really became enthralled by the philosophical side of space travel and why we need to explore - what it means to us here on Earth - all of those things. I became a huge proponent.

I don't think tackling is a quality. It is a recurso, something you have to resort to, not a characteristic of your game.

We don't see the game as a tactical game.

For Guardiola, the system and tactics can change but not the approach, attitude, or philosophy.

As soldiers need not only courage but tactics also, so does a philosopher need not only courage and philosophy but discernment also, to tell what his right time of dying is - so that he neither seek it nor flee it.

I'm a Buddhist, so one of my biggest beliefs is, 'Everything changes, don't take it personally.'

If we had this back, and in full measure; if society were infused by it, through and through, and men lived its life, and in its life, philosophy would take care of itself and the nature of our institutions would not matter.

I have in later years taken to Euclid, Whitehead, Bertrand Russell, in an elemental way.

Nothing that has been thought can ever be taken back.

Human affairs are not serious, but they have to be taken seriously.

We don't compete with the Grammys. The Grammys compete with us. They have taken the stance that anybody who performs on 'The American Music Awards' cannot appear on 'The Grammys.' I don't agree with that philosophy.

Postmodernism is, of course, the dead end from which hauntology starts - but one of its role is to denaturalise what postmodernism has taken for granted, to conceive of postmodernism as a condition in the sense of a sickness.

Logic takes care of itself; all we have to do is to look and see how it does it.

A philosopher who is not taking part in discussions is like a boxer who never goes into the ring.

I like Jacques Derrida; I think he's funny. I like my philosophy with a few jokes and puns. I know that that offends other philosophers; they think he's not taking things seriously, but he comes up with some marvellous puns. Why shouldn't you have a bit of fun while dealing with the deepest issues of the mind?

The questions of philosophy proper are human desires and fears and aspirations - human emotions - taking an intellectual form.