Quotes About Philosophy

Is dirt nice? Is death nice? Above all is dying nice? And, in the end, we must ask, is God nice? I doubt it.

They do say that socialism is the ideal philosophy-just as long as you have capitalists to pay for it.

?nsan?n önemli anlarda dilsizle?en bir filozof oldu?unu ke?fetmesinden daha korkunç bir ?ey olamaz.

Bir ?eyi ne denli az anlarsan, o denli çok sayg? gösteriyor, onun kar??s?nda boyun e?iyorsun. Hitler'i Nietzsche'den, Napolyon'u da Pestalozzi'den daha iyi tan?yorsun. Sana göre bir kral, Sigmund Freud'dan daha önemlidir.

All human philosophy is riddled with the nightmare of searching in vain.

Briç oynamam, kuramlar?m? yaymak için kokteyl partileri de vermem. Ö?retilerim do?ruysa kendi kendilerine yay?lacaklard?r.

Mutluluk önemlidir ama anlam daha önemlidir.

However great an evil immorality may be, we must not forget that it is not without its beneficial consequences. It is only through extremes that men can arrive at the middle path of wisdom and virtue.

The sensual and spiritual are linked together by a mysterious bond, sensed by our emotions, though hidden from our eyes. To this double nature of the visible and invisible world -- to the profound longing for the latter, coupled with the feeling of the sweet necessity for the former, we owe all sound and logical systems of philosophy, truly based on the immutable principles of our nature, just as from the same source arise the most senseless enthusiasms.

For even if we know very little that is certain about spirit or soul, the true nature of the body, of materiality, is totally unknown and incomprehensible to us.

If something possesses no capacity for activity whatever, it is nothing; it may be wholly penetrated, but it cannot be touched. Therefore passivity and reaction are everywhere equal.

To judge a man means nothing other than to ask: What content does he give to the form of humanity? What concept should we have of humanity if he were its only representative?

Modul în care un om î?i accept? destinul este mai important decît însu?i destinul s?u.

Aristotle taught that the brain exists merely to cool the blood and is not involved in the process of thinking. This is true only of certain persons.

Aristotle was famous for knowing everything. He taught that the brain exists merely to cool the blood and is not involved in the process of thinking. This is true only of certain persons.

The most interesting thing in the world is another human being who wonders, suffers and raises the questions that have bothered him to the last day of his life, knowing he will never get the answers.

Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art.

The greatest question of our time is not communism vs. individualism, not Europe vs. America, not even the East vs. the West; it is whether men can bear to live without God.

Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art; it arises in hypothesis and flows into achievement.

Contrary to the rules of philosophers of science, who advise testing hypotheses by trying to refute them, people (and scientists, quite often) seek data that are likely to be compatible with the beliefs they currently hold. The confirmatory bias of System 1 favors uncritical acceptance of suggestions and exaggeration of the likelihood of extreme and improbable events. If

Contrary to the rules of philosophers of science, who advise testing hypotheses by trying to refute them, people (and scientists, quite often) seek data that are likely to be compatible with the beliefs they currently hold.

An unbiased appreciation of uncertainty is a cornerstone of rationality

Scholars in other disciplines found it useful, and the ideas of heuristics and biases have been used productively in many fields, including medical diagnosis, legal judgment, intelligence analysis, philosophy, finance, statistics, and military strategy.

Happiness does not have a simple meaning and should not be used as if it does.