Quotes About Philosophy

A journal is not a diary, where you record the weather and the engagements of the day. A journal is a notebook in which one can, hopefully, be ontological.

There's more to life than just the things that can be explained by encyclopedias and facts. Facts alone are not adequate.

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Ontology: the word about the essence of things; the word about being.

A tree falls in the forest, thought Roxanne, staring bleakly out of the window. A man tells a woman he loves her. But if no-one is present to hear it does he really make a sound? Did it really happen?

Happiness, he said, warming his hands around a fresh cup of coffee, is a choice. "You have to brew it in yourself. Even from a lump of food, we choose each grain to suit our need. Likewise, in the philosophical manner, we choose to be who we are.

Sextus [Empericus] identifies three different types of philosophy. There are Dogmatists, who think that they know the truth. There are Academic Sceptics, who think the truth can never be known. Then there are Sceptics, who retain an open mind, not thinking truth is yet discovered, but prepared to accept that it might be.

Martha C. Nussbaum's manifesto Not for Profit: Why Democracy Needs the Humanities

Empirically speaking, we are made of star stuff. Why aren't we talking more about that?

Evolution strikes me as infinitely more spiritually profound than Genesis.

With my sort of book there's no resolution, because there's no solution. The problems aren't answered in the end because there is no answer. They're problems that are handed on to the reader, not solved for him so that he can go away thinking he lives in a beautiful world. It's not a beautiful world.

One thing I have learned, my friend, there is no such thing as the future. The future is just what we invent in the present to put an order over the past.

We have become obsessed with what is good about small classrooms and oblivious about what also can be good about large classes. It's a strange thing isn't it, to have an educational philosophy that thinks of the other students in the classroom with your child as competitors for the attention of the teacher and not allies in the adventure of learning.

It is a strange thing, isn't it, to have an educational philosophy that thinks of the other students in the classroom with your child as competitors for the attention of the teacher and not allies in the adventure of learning?

The whole Mennonite philosophy is that we forgive and we move on." To the Mennonites, forgiveness is a religious imperative: Forgive those who trespass against you. But

I'm satisfied to have an ordinary success and an ordinary life and an ordinary income. Later, I don't know.

It is decidedly not true that "nice guys finish last," as that highly original American baseball philosopher, Leo Durocher, was alleged to have said.

Unbelief in the supernatural is a belief in its own nature.

There is a science to living well and art to experiencing the good life, and it begins with wisdom.

your responsibility is simply to find how things work and those who are already successful then model their beliefs, behaviour, attitude, philosophies and actions and you'll get similar results

The SECRET to unravelling Life's MYSTERIES is thinking.

our value/belief system acts as aconditioning factor for our thinking pattern.

Your success is determined by the principles upon which you live your life.

Dread is a sympathetic antipathy and an antipathetic sympathy.