Quotes About Philosophy

La felicidad nunca tiene grandeza.

The triumph of humanism is the defeat of humanity.

One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them. Finding bad reasons for what one believes for other bad reasons—that's philosophy. People believe in God because they've been conditioned to believe in God.

Porque son los detalles, como todo el mundo lo sabe, los que conducen a la virtud y a la felicidad, en tanto que las generalidades son intelectualmente consideradas como males necesarios.

Dualism…Without it there can hardly be good literature. With it, there most certainly can be no good life.

You remind me o another of those old fellows called Bradley. He defined philosophy as the finding of bad reasons for what one believes by instinct.

Philosophy teaches us to feel uncertain about the things that seems to us self-evident. Propaganda, on the other hand, teaches us to accept as self-evident matters about which it would be reasonable to suspend our judgement or to feel doubt.

You remind me of another of those old fellows called Bradley. He defined philosophy as the finding of bad reason for what one believes by instinct. As if one believed anything by instinct! One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them.

Philosophy teaches us to feel uncertain about the things that seem to us self-evident. Propaganda, on the other hand, teaches us to accept as self-evident matters about which it would be reasonable to suspend our judgment or to feel doubt.

Bernard consideraba que el Golf Electromagnético era una pérdida de tiempo. —Pues, ¿para qué es el tiempo, si no?

What fun it would be,' he thought, 'if one didn't have to think about happiness!

Crass," Dr Robert agreed, "but crass precisely because you're such inadequate materialists. Abstract materialism—that's what you profess. Whereas we make a point of being materialists concretely—materialistic on the wordless levels of seeing and touching and smelling, of tensed muscles and dirty hands. Abstract materialism is as bad as abstract idealism, it makes immediate spiritual experience almost impossible.

Can you say something about nothing? That's what it finally boils down to. I try and I try.

Moral education, ought never, in any circumstances, to be rational.

There seems to be plenty of it," was all I would answer, when the investigator asked me to say what I felt about time.

Nicht Philosophen, sondern Laubsäger und Briefmarkensammler bilden das Rückgrat der Gesellschaft.

La educación moral, que no debe nunca ser racional en modo alguno.

Finding bad reasons for what one believes for other bad reasons – that's philosophy.

He defined philosophy as the finding of bad reason for what one believes by instinct. As if one believed anything by instinct! One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them. Finding bad reasons for what one believes for other bad reasons – that's philosophy. People believe in God because they've been conditioned to believe in God.

The right to the pursuit of happiness is nothing else than the right to disillusionment phrased in another way.

Books, he said—books. One reads so many, and one sees so few people and so little of the world. Great thick books about the universe and the mind and ethics. You've no idea how many there are. I must have read twenty or thirty tons of them in the last five years. Twenty tons of ratiocination. Weighted with that, one's pushed out into the world.

in a world in which everything is available, nothing has any meaning.

Denis pursued, having ready-made ideas about everything. One had a philosophy and tried to make life fit into it. One should have lived first and then made one's philosophy to fit life...Life, facts, things were horribly complicated; ideas, even the most difficult of them, deceptively simple. In the world of ideas everything was clear; in life all was obscure, embroiled. Was it surprising that one was miserable, horribly unhappy?

What fun it would be,' he thought, 'if one didn't have to think about happiness!' With