Quotes About Philosophy

German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer, who wrote, 'Most people take the limits of their vision to be the limits of the world. A few do not. Join them.

Gracias a mis experimentos con la vida, ahora entiendo que lo que los filósofos, místicos y salvadores inmortales llamaron «paraíso terrenal» no es un lugar que visitar sino un estado en el que habitar.

Also on my desk is a copy of Seneca's Letters from a Stoic, a truly priceless work, which was purchased by my dad for $1.95).

El liderazgo es una filosofía, una actitud, un estado de la mente, una forma de funcionar. Y es algo que está al alcance de todos al margen del lugar que ocupes en una organización.

Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse

philosophy of Marcus Aurelius and some of the work of Seneca.

As Confucius said many years ago:

Let your mind drink deeply from the works of the great philosophers, such

Albert Camus dijo una vez que «la verdadera generosidad para con el futuro consiste en entregarlo todo al presente».

Vincent van Gogh said: 'For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream.

Enjoy the process. The Sages of Sivana often spoke of this philosophy. They truly believed that a day without laughter or a day without love was a day without life.

Become a beautiful thinker. Commit to making each of your thoughts a thing of beauty. Devote yourself to coming up with stunning insights, ideas and reflections that are outright masterpieces.

Sort of pregnant. Sort of dead. Sort of Jewish. These are impossibles.

They ask how the universe is arranged, philosophers, mathematicians, and they draw pretty pictures, impossibilities on the page. They save phenomena by telling one ugly lie after another, epicycles upon epicycles, and the fools care not. It is not enough, I tell you, to ask how the cosmos is designed. We must ask why.

and you and I left with the same old question the sheer unspeakable strangeness of being here at all

For now I know that whatever bent this world around us, whether it was God or whether it was blind Chance as blind as my father, Is perfectly good, we're given a dollar of life to gamble against a dollar's worth of desire And if we win we have both but losers lose nothing

We don't know enough, we'll never know. Oh happy Homer, taking the stars and the Gods for granted.

In his opinion, humans were best when miserable, and so he had worked at being miserable his whole life, and in his generous way tried to make as many people miserable as possible.

More recently, faculty at the University of Texas condemned "Western Civilization" courses as inherently right wing, and Yale even returned a $20 million contribution rather than reinstate the course.

The great British philosopher concluded his remarks by noting that the images of God and creation found in the non-European faiths, especially those in Asia, are too impersonal or too irrational to have sustained science.

It is said that the human brain divides its functions. The right brain is devoted to sensory impressions, emotions, colors, music. The left brain deals with abstract thought, logic, philosophy, analysis. My definition of a great movie: While you're watching it, it engages your right brain. When it's over, it engages your left brain.

An honest bookstore would post the following sign above its "self-help" section: "For true self-help, please visit our philosophy, literature, history, and science sections, find yourself a good book, read it, and think about it.

I am not a believer, not an atheist, not an agnostic. I am more content with questions than answers.

Thus, Godel appears to have taken it as evident that the physical brain must itself behave computationally, but that the mind is something beyond the brain, so that the mind's action is not constrained to behave according to the computational laws that he believed must control the physical brain's behavior.