Quotes About Philosophy

I stepped away to find out more about myself, which I was having difficulty doing as a football player. I got a chance to travel the world. I studied Eastern philosophy, and I've grown as a person so much.

One should, perform karma with nonchalance without expecting the benefits because sooner or later one shall definitely gets the fruits.

Relax, man. If it's God you're talking about... he's been absent from the world of science since the very dawn of time.

I've often wondered if Morality is an attribute of Reason. Of course, evil is always buttressed by 'reasonable' arguments. Yet, what if True Reason is an attribute of Morality, and True Morality an attribute of Reason?

The body does whatever it wants. I am not my body; I am my mind.

Thus empiricism directed attention away from abstract principles to the data of experience. Hence, while the philosophers of the pre-Enlightenment period favoured the geometric method, reasoning deductively from first principles, their successors worked by induction, first observing particular details and arriving eventually at general truths.

Believing, with Locke, that all our knowledge comes ultimately from the senses, and is thus empirical, not metaphysical, in origin, the philosophes do not profess to know what lies behind empirical phenomena.151 They do not inquire into the ultimate nature of things.

A wise man is free from passions, though Kant admits that, as the passions are so all-pervasive, we may have to search for this wise man in the moon.

Passions of the soul are potentially valuable. Unlike the Stoics, Descartes thinks they should not be suppressed, but put to good use.

The Age of Faith: and by 'faith' understand the denial of all scientific reasoning.

Marx never had a steady income or a permanent job or a bank account… But what he couldn't earn for his own family, he won for Millions of others through his writings…

Locke has the idea that men were free to think of god in their own way, not as any religion told them to…

One of Aristotle's most interesting discoveries is that social conflicts arise from the inequality in Economic and Social conditions…

Philosophy started as Criticism of religious beliefs. By seeking logical reasons for the things in nature, mankind created the Science of philosophy…*

Even religion had to invent some kind of science for itself (Theology = The philosophy of divinity) To justify its existence.

Vegetarianism is a link to perfection and peace.

Very simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds.

Christian' makes a poor adjective

What does natural mean? Means non-artificial. Made by nature. But nature can't make things. It's not a person. Nature is the things that aren't made by people. But we're made by people, so what does that make us? Are we artificial?

Between Dog and Wolf is, among other things, a sharply etched meditation on death and its inevitable aftermath, but don't let that fool you into thinking it's maudlin of depressing—it's an absolute delight to read.

I think I got a rock in mine, 'stead of bacon." "Heh. Well, that's life for you. Sometimes you get bacon. Sometimes you get a rock. My advice to you, sir, is to eat what you can, spit out what you cain't.

the world is neither meaningful, nor absurd. it quite simply is, and that, in any case, is what is so remarkable about it.

Emerson put the development of the individual, rather than service to society, at the heart of his educational vision.

A touchstone to determine the actual worth of an "intellectual" - find out how he feels about astrology.