Quotes About Philosophy

Hürriyete ve mes'uliyete inanan bir adam?n asla filozof olam?yaca??n? Ferit ilk defa o anda dü?ündü.

Sen felsefeyi b?rak, yine T?p Fakültesine dön, diyordu Mister Joe, orada tabiat?n kanunlar?yla daha yak?ndan temas edecek ve kendini daha iyi anlayacaks?n. T?pta doktor, felsefede hasta olursun.

?stikbale hükmetme?e kalkmayal?m. Yar?n madem ki do?mam??t?r, yoktur. Hiç üzerinde bütün tahminlerimizin k?ymeti de hiçtir.

Marksizmin ilmini sevmez, fakat ruhunu severdi. Asla gerçekle?miyece?ini bildi?i büyük emellerinden biri de bu ruhu o ilmihalden kurtarmakt?: Bir sat?r?n? yazmad??? ne eserler tasarlam??t?. T?ptan felsefeye atlay???n?n sebeplerinden biri bu arzu idi, felsefede kalamay???n?n sebeplerinden biri de bu iradesizlik.

On the flip side is Woody Allen's nebbish observation: "I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through not dying." Companion words include mischief and bonchief, a bad result and a good result, respectively

No, Klaus, it isn't a game. I am determined to change. I do love him. It should be enough. Besides, they always win. There must be something to their philosophy. --Lucrezia Mongfish:

If you meet the Buddha in the lane, feed him the ball.

Albert Einstein once described his rules of work: "One: Out of clutter, find simplicity. Two: From discord, find harmony. Three: In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.

Suzuki had just finished giving a talk to a group of Zen students when someone in the audience said, "You've been talking about Buddhism for nearly an hour, and I haven't been able to understand a thing you said. Could you say one thing about Buddhism I can understand?" After the laughter died down, Suzuki replied calmly, "Everything changes.

Sports is like rock 'n' roll, both are dominant cultural forces, both speak an international language, and both are all about emotions.

T]here is now a void at the heart of everything. But then there is so much more of everything now!

Whatever we are, whatever we make of ourselves, is all we will ever have – and that, in its profound simplicity, is the meaning of life.

A religion without followers is just a weird guy with strange ideas.

Whether we believe in the Devil or not is now a matter of choice. It was not always so.

But then, who's to say what is evil? "A man's beliefs are his own business. Neither the Church nor anybody else has any right to tell you how to think and how to act; that's what real freedom is about: to be able to be who you really are, not what you are expected or supposed to be," he later said.

Carlo: Do you feel that evil can be reincarnated? Ramirez: I hope so. [laughs]

You will find that reason, which always ought to direct mankind, seldom does; but that passions and weaknesses commonly usurp its seat, and rule in its stead.

So finding meaning in events is positively correlated with wellbeing but negatively correlated with foresight. That sets up a depressing possibility: Is misery the price of accuracy?

In his famous essay "Politics and the English Language," George Orwell concluded with six emphatic rules, including "never use a long word where a short one will do" and "never use the passive where you can use the active." But the sixth rule was the key: "Break any of these rules sooner than saying anything outright barbarous.

Panpsychists believe that consciousness is a fundamental and ubiquitous feature of the physical world. An increasing number of philosophers and even some neuroscientists are coming around to the idea that it may be our best hope for solving the problem of consciousness

Panpsychism is the view that consciousness is a fundamental and ubiquitous feature of physical reality.

Contemporary materialism is not a solution but a stubborn refusal to face up to the problem.

If Galileo traveled in time to the present day to hear that we are having difficulty giving a physical explanation of consciousness, he would most likely respond, "Of course you are, I designed physical science to deal with quantities not qualities!

Emerson used India to formulate his philosophy, and India used Emerson to legitimize its ancient wisdom to the modern mind.