Quotes About Philosophy

La vie oscille, comme un pendule, de la souffrance à l'ennui

Schopenhauer on Hegel: A flat-headed, insipid, nauseating, illiterate charlatan.

thoughts die the moment they are embodied by words

Exigir la inmortalidad del individuo es querer perpetuar un error hasta el infinito

University philosophy is, as a rule, mere juggling. Its real aim is to impart to the students, in the deepest ground of their thought, that tendency of mind which the ministry that appoints to the professorships regards as consistent with its views.

Più intelligenza avrai, più soffrirai.

man is the only animal which causes pain to others with no other object than causing pain…No animal ever torments another for the sake of tormenting: but man does so, and it is this which constitutes the diabolical nature which is far worse than the merely bestial

The middle ages showed us the results of thinking without experimentation, our present century shows us what experimentation without thinking leads to.

Free will is an illusion. Humans are nothing but moist robots.

Reality is overrated and impossible to understand with any degree of certainty. What you do know for sure is that some ways of looking at the world work better than others. Pick the way that works, even if you don't know why.

Because everything you perceive is a metaphor for something your brain is not equipped to fully understand. God is as real as the clothes you are wearing and the chair you are sitting in. They are all metaphors for something you will never understand.

Most important, understand that goals are for losers and systems are for winners.

Okay, I can accept the idea that God doesn't have a personality exactly like people. Maybe we just assume God has a personality because it's easier to talk about it that way. But the important point is that something had to create reality. It's too well-designed to be an accident.

To be fair to Nietzsche, he probably meant the word 'stronger' to include anything that makes you more capable. I'd ask him to clarify, but ironically he ran out of things that didn't kill him.

I encourage you to remain skeptical about any details in this book, but it might help you to know I'm in good company—philosophically speaking—on the big picture: Humans think they are rational, and they think they understand their reality. But they are wrong on both counts.

normative ethics refers to the discipline that produces moral norms or rules as its end product.

Ethical egoism is the theory that the morality of an act is determined by one's self-interest.

Some have even suggested that the Bible is entirely egoistic and simply changes the categories of what constitutes a person's self-interest. However, that is too strong a statement. While the Bible never condemns self-interest, it does require that it be balanced with concern for others (Phil. 2:4). It is one thing to occasionally appeal to rational self-interest as the Bible does, but quite another to claim that egoism is a sufficient ethical system, as do thoroughgoing ethical egoists.

A final criticism of Kant is that his categorical imperative is only a procedural morality and does not offer any guidance in terms of the content of morality.

And what of ourselves? Are we really completely outside this mechanism? The people who come after us, won't they find aspects of sacrificial thinking even in the way we use anti-sacrificial theory?

Faith and reason are indeed complementary faculties that we use to think about the truth. When any winged creature (or mechanism) tries to fly on just one wing, it falls to the ground. In a similar way, when we human beings try to wing it with just one faculty, we crash.

Norman Geisler, R. C. Sproul, and Francis Schaeffer

I can't wait to have words with the Gray King when this shit is all finished, Locke whispered. There's a few things I want to ask him. Philosophical questions. Like, 'How does it feel to be dangled out a window by a rope tied around your balls, motherfucker?

Man was big enough to kill himself, thanks. No gods need apply.