Quotes About Philosophy

The world has no existence whatsoever outside of the human imagination.

How can I love all this so much and be insane?

And because without objects there can be no subject-- because the objects create the subject's awareness of himself-- quality is the event at which awareness of both subjects and objects is made possible.

there is a sense of defeat at having come so far to be stopped by a mystery that can never be fathomed.

Where's the room for free will in this mechanical universe of yours, Charles?" "There isn't any. That's why I say the universe stinks." "We have no freedom at all?" "The freedom to wriggle a little on the hook.

Death was the only question that contained its own answer, and when you asked the question and had the answer you were gone, you were nothing.

Somewhere Dostoevsky has written, "Without God, all things are possible." I can amend that. "To the invisible man, all things are possible—and uninteresting.

Living, we fret. Dying, we live.

It isn't a philosophy at all," Jack Bernstein maintained, hammering fist against palm. "It's just a gang of strong-arm men who happened to find a power vacuum and moved right in. They've got no overriding program of government. They simply do what they think is necessary to perpetuate their own rule and keep things from blowing up again. They grabbed power, and now they improvise from day to day.

Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little. Epicurus

Smith's doctrine of self-interest did more than just turn avarice into a virtue; it turned classical virtue into a vice.

Injustice becomes a matter of uncertainty, justice a matter of contractual predictability. Redistribution plays a minor part in his social philosophy, and then only as part of the machinery of macroeconomic stabilization, not as a means to an ideal goal such as equality.

Money is just an idea.

It's what is in your head that determines what is in your hands.

The Worldly Philosophers

After The Worldly Philosophers, I recommend reading The Creature from Jekyll Island by G. Edward Griffin, Paul Zane Pilzer's Unlimited Wealth, James Dale Davidson's The Sovereign Individual, Robert Preacher's The Crest of the Wave, and Harry Dent's The Great Depression Ahead.

One dad thought that the rich should pay more in taxes to take care of those less fortunate. The other said, "Taxes punish those who produce and reward those who don't produce.

Eu unul nu încerc sa schimb sistemul. Filozofia mea este c? mai bine m? schimb eu însumi decât sa schimb sistemul, pentru c? este mai uÈ™or.

and that is the model of reality my dad subscribes to.

future. After The Worldly Philosophers, I recommend reading The Creature from Jekyll Island by G. Edward Griffin, Paul Zane Pilzer's Unlimited Wealth, James Dale Davidson's The Sovereign Individual, Robert Preacher's The Crest of the Wave, and Harry Dent's The Great Depression Ahead.

The Worldly Philosophers by Robert Heilbroner.

Which would you rather be if you had the choice--divinely beautiful or dazzlingly clever or angelically good?

Who would endure life if it were not for the hope of death?

It's not what the world holds for you, it's what you bring to it.