Quotes About Philosophy

My indirect exposure to war for most of my life constantly pushed me toward seeking, and becoming comfortable with, a pro-peace philosophy, as well as refusing to be intimidated by the false charges that such a position is unpatriotic, un-American, and expresses a lack of concern for military personnel.

For any thinking person, it (perpetual happiness) is untenable. If you're a thinking person, your upbeat sometimes, said sometimes.

Protagoras first wrote a phrase to which we shall have to return many times in this book: "Man is the measure of all things." As Toynbee writes, if we were to take that phrase out of Greek language and put it into Judeo-Christian language, "we should say the Hellenes saw in Man 'the Lord of Creation,' and worshipped him as an idol in the place of God.

Philosophers used to speculate about what they called the meaning of life. (That is now the job of mystics and comedians.)

That was the way he had lived his whole life. To him things were simple. You reached out and took, and if you felt like it, you gave, with the intensity you wanted to give with.

If we are all a part of god," she says, "then God must indeed be horrible.

SOCRATES: I appreciate that, Agathon, and of course I have prepared well for our dialogue. These discussions are my main way of becoming the best Socrates I can be. But if I just wanted to speak my own thoughts out loud, I could talk to a mirror, without the bother of leaving my house. I've come here because I'll only be sure I've done my best thinking, when I hear others, and submit to the exhilarating discipline of the dialogue. All of us are smarter than any of us.

Socrates immersed himself in the cutting-edge intellectual work of his day, then transcended it. He took advantage of the fact that the most exciting thinkers in the Western world were drawn to Athens. He sought them out, learned what they had to teach, then challenged what he had learned to enhance his own understanding.

There are no logical contradictions in the Christian faith. If there were even one logical contradiction at the center of the Christian faith, the Christian faith would be necessarily false.

If you play games with the law of non-contradiction, then every time you open your mouth and say anything, you're cheating. Every time you make a choice in life you're cheating.

OS AXIOMAS, EMBORA BÁSICOS PARA TODAS AS PROVAS, SÃO ELES MESMOS NÃO-PROVADOS OU ATÉ MESMO NÃO PROVÁVEIS... SE OS AXIOMAS SÃO NEGADOS, AS PROPOSIÇÕES DEDUZIDAS A PARTIR DOS AXIOMAS NÃO EXISTEM, VISTO QUE NÃO HÁ NADA A PARTIR DO QUE ELAS POSSAM SER DERIVADAS; A VALIDADE DO SISTEMA INTEIRO TORNA-SE SUSPEITO... OS AXIOMAS DE UMA PESSOA DETERMINAM OS SEUS TEOREMAS.

Sade never understood how exceptional he was in not feeling frightened of freedom.

But we dare not adopt our political philosophy uncritically from some non-Christian source. It must emerge from our normative biblical framework and our painstaking, extensive socioeconomic and political analysis.

The ultimate determinant in the struggle now going on for the world will not be bombs and rockets but a test of wills and ideas-a trial of spiritual resolve the values we hold, the beliefs we cherish and the ideals to which we are dedicated.

How do you tell a Communist? Well, it's someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-Communist? It's someone who understands Marx and Lenin.

One's philosophy is not best expressed in words it is expressed in the choices one makes...and the choices we make are ultimately our responsibility.

we are reluctant to admit that the poetic imagination sets the bounds for human thought. At the heart of philosophy's quarrel with poetry is the fear that the imagination goes all the way down—that there is nothing we talk about that we might not have talked of differently.

To reach truth that one cannot be argued out of is to escape from the linguistically expressible to the ineffable. Only the ineffable—what is not describable at all—cannot be described differently.

philosophy and poetry can coexist peaceably if both sides are willing to give up on the attempt to transcend human finitude.

I wondered if walking was not a form of dancing.

Todos necesitamos la belleza para que la vida nos sea soportable. Lo expresó muy bien Fernando Pessoa: «La literatura, como el arte en general, es la demostración de que la vida no basta.» No basta, no. Por eso estoy redactando este libro. Por eso lo estás leyendo.

Every one of the "great" belief systems of the world, Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Buddhism and Confucianism, insists on women's inferiority as an article of faith. Individual

She believed, of course ... because without something to believe in, life would be intolerable.

One of Tobasonakwut's favorite phrases is andopawatchigan , which means seek your dream, but is lots more complicated. It means that first you have to find and identify your dream, often through fasting, and then that you also must carry out exactly what your dream tells you to do in each detail. And then the philosophy comes in, for by doing this repeatedly you will gradually come into a balanced relationship with all of life.