Quotes About Philosophy

The march of the human mind is slow.

Only ideals are dangerous.

I had to philosophize. Otherwise, I could not live in this world.

First, anyone who seriously intends to become a philosopher must "once in his life" withdraw into himself and attempt, within himself, to overthrow and build anew all the sciences that, up to then, he has been accepting. Philosophy wisdom (sagesse) is the philosophizer's quite personal affair. It must arise as His wisdom, as his self-acquired knowledge tending toward universality, a knowledge for which he can answer from the beginning, and at each step, by virtue of his own absolute insights.

I seek not to instruct but only to lead, to point out and describe what I see. I claim no other right than that of speaking according to my best lights, principally before myself but in the same manner also before others, as one who has lived in all its seriousness the fate of a philosophical existence.

Philosophy as science, as serious, rigorous, indeed apodictically rigorous science -- the dream is over .

Why must the plastic form make up the foundation of image consciousness?

Zu den Sachen selbst!

All forms of perception, according to Husserl, presuppose an intentional structure of consciousness, and it is in this intentional structure that the primordial link between consciousness and the world is to be sought.

At every moment I convinced myself that I was gathering material for the novel of my life - all experienced from the philosophical distance of the author. Even these humiliating occasions when I was robbed could be used as material. Life was a field trip.

For these people religion is the only form of intellectuality.

Marxism is the opium of the intellectuals

There is no God. But it does not matter. Man is enough.

The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim.

The question of whether computers can think is just like the question of whether submarines can swim.

El sentimiento es la raíz y el sustento de las ideas profundas

Los estúpidos se conservan mejor físicamente porque no los corroe la ansiedad existencial a la que se ve sometida la gente más o menos lúcida.

When the philosopher's argument becomes tedious, complicated, and opaque, it is usually a sign that he is attempting to prove as true to the intellect what is plainly false to common sense

We know this apodictic rock beneath our feet. That dogmatic sun above our heads. The world of dreams, the agony of love and the foresight of death. That is all we know. And all we need to know? Challenge that statement.

I am not an atheist but an earthiest.

God is a sound people make when they're too tired to think anymore.

Where life is there is death, reasons the vulture, and where there's death there's hope.

The very poor are materialistic. It takes money to be a mystic.

When life is cheap death is rich.