Quotes About Philosophy

Even the DEVIL is only eighty percent EVIL, and not one hundred percent.

I am a Marxist--of the Groucho tendency.

Life is a sexually transmitted disease.

Money for the wise is a necessity of life, not a reason to live

Philosophy is a game with objectives and no rules. Mathematics is a game with rules and no objectives.

Not even God is wise enough.

Et in Arcadia ego [I too am in Arcadia].

I deny everything and affirm naught but myself: because the sole truth of which I have material and moral proof and tangible, comprehensible and intelligible evidence, the only real, startling, non-arbitrary truth not susceptible to interpretation, is myself. I am. There I have a positive fact. Everything else is abstraction and, in mathematics, would be designated as "x", and unknown quantity; and I need not trouble myself with it.

E acabamos fatalmente por desembocar na pergunta essencial, que se encontra por detrás de todas as outras quando todas as outras se afastam ou foram afastadas e que é, se me permitem, Quem Sou Eu? Interrogo-me e a resposta consiste, obcecantemente, invariavelmente, assim: Uma Merda.

The idea, in essence, is that cultural activity began and remains deeply embedded in feeling. The favorable and unfavorable interplay of feeling and reason must be acknowledged if we are to understand the conflicts and contradictions of the human condition.

A metafísica e a ciência não são pois rivais, mas colaboradoras na obra do conhecimento, e a concepção metafísica e a científica não devem ser representadas como duas esferas opostas, mas como dois círculos concêntricos.

Plato, who expressed the view that no one should be more than four times richer than the poorest member of the society.

All art preserves mysteries which aesthetic philosophers tackle in vain.

Is it better for a man to have chosen evil than to have good imposed upon him?

It is as inhuman to be totally good as it is to be totally evil.

It may not be nice to be good, little 6655321. It may be horrible to be good. And when I say that to you I realize how self-contradictory that sounds. I know I shall have many sleepless nights about this. What does God want? Does God want goodness or the choice of goodness? Is a man who chooses the bad perhaps in some way better than a man who has the good imposed upon him? Deep and hard questions, little 6655321.

Betti wrote on philosophy, theology, and law, and many regard him as third in importance behind Gadamer and Ricoeur in twentieth-century hermeneutics. He argues that hermeneutics fosters "open-mindedness" and "receptiveness" to such an extent that the subject should be obligatory in all universities. It nurtures tolerance, mutual respect, and reciprocal listening one to another with patience and integrity.

No theory adequately covers reality.

By age seventeen he [Seymoure Sthulman]'d convinced himself that every human being he saw was a parasite, captive to the dictates of consumption. But as he reconstructs Zeno's translation, he realizes that the truth is infinitely more complicated, that we all are beautiful even as we are all part of the problem, and that to be a part of the problem is to be human.

he that knows all that Learning ever writ, knows only this--that he knows nothing yet. [Antonius Diogenes, trans. by Zeno Ninis]

Even if you don't believe in it, I do. Otherwise what's it all been for?

Boil the words you already know down to their bones," Rex says, "and usually you find the ancients sitting there at the bottom of the pot, staring back up." Who says such things? And still Zeno steals glances: Rex's mouth, his hair, his hands; there is the same pleasure in gazing at this man as in gazing at a fire.

Foucault's pendulum would

I suppose that is the point, no? To make us wonder?