Quotes About Philosophy

Fundamentalmente, la Ilustración fue un intento de los intelectuales europeos de encontrar una base común para determinar la verdad moral sin recurrir a la religión. El éxito de la ciencia animó a los filósofos morales a explorar si la razón imparcial, que había triunfado en el terreno de la ciencia, podía mostrar a los occidentales un nuevo modo de vida no sectario.

Medieval metaphysicians believed nature pointed to God. Nominalists did not.

As the American national consensus shifts from a traditional, God-centered worldview to a secular, man-centered philosophy, perspectives and priorities change. History, however, does not. It may be ignored, reinterpreted, revised, or even concealed, but the historical evidence remains unchanged: America was forged in faith.

God is dead." Friedrich Nietzsche "Nietzsche is dead." God

We come. We go. And in between we try to understand.

Modern stereotypes brand Epicureans as seekers after sensual pleasure, often associated with the motto, 'Eat, drink

Modern science begins with Heraclitus of Ephesus.

the way to truth was through the exercise of reason and rational judgement.

Pythagoras of Samos, in the later sixth century BCE

Isocrates was ninety years old in 346 BCE but as active an opinion-former as ever.

Among the last words that Isocrates ever wrote, before his death at the age of ninety-eight

the four characters: ti-ri-po-de, meaning 'two tripods'.)

Socrates had been born in Athens in 469 BCE. His career would span the entire second half of the century

For Socrates, the goal of all human beings was arete.

Medicine, Miss Landgrave, is for physical pain, not metaphysical pain.

Suppose," Helen Yokoyama said, "that some people have a philosophy of life which enables them to regard all human beings as belonging to a single family. Even though they might not know each other, even though they might live thousands of miles apart, they might still believe in their

Descartes does not champion induction, and, although he advances the corpuscularian or mechanical philosophy to the extent that he reduces physical objects to matter in motion, he makes it clear that he does not accept the reality of atoms as ultimate indivisible constituents of

Indeed, it would not be an exaggeration to state that all of modern philosophy constitutes reactions to and criticisms of Descartes' Meditations.

Knowledge begins through them and is

resolved into them.

Here is the platform and principle of the whole structure of our knowledge. <> He who could push me into contradicting the senses would have me by the throat; he could not push me further back. The senses are the beginning and the end of human knowledge:

Of all absurdities the most absurd, <> is to disavow the force and efficacy of the senses: Whatever has been seen at some time is true. And if reason cannot distinguish the cause Why those things that, seen near at hand, were square Are seen round at a distance, still it is better Through lack of argument to err in accounting For the causes of either shape Rather than to allow things clearly seen to elude your grasp, Attack the grounds of belief, and tear up the

foundations On which life and existence rest. For not only would all reasoning collapse, But so, straight away, would life itself, Unless we choose to trust the senses, And avoid precipitous places And other things of the kind that are to be shunned.9 <> As to the error and uncertainty of the

Set a plank between those two towers, of a size such as is needed for us to walk on it: there is no philosophical wisdom of such firmness as to give us the courage to walk on it as we would do if it was on the ground.