Quotes About Philosophy

Obviously no two creation stories can both be true. All of those invented by the many known thousands of religions and sects in fact have certainly been false. A great many educated citizens have realized that their own faiths are indeed false, or at least questionable in details. But they understand the rule attributed to the Roman stoic philosopher Seneca the Younger that religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful.

Perhaps the time has come for ethics to be removed temporarily from the hands of the philosophers and biologicized - made part of the new synthesis.

Si nuestra especie tiene un alma, ésta reside en las humanidades.

Ethical philosophers intuit the deontological canons of morality by consulting the emotive centers of their own hypothalamic-limbic system... Only by interpreting the activity of the emotive centers as a biological adaptation can the meaning of the ethical canons be deciphered.

One of its most distinguished practitioners, Alexander Rosenberg, has recently argued that philosophy in fact addresses just two issues: the questions that the sciences—physical, biological, and social—cannot answer, and the reasons for that incapacity.

To explore and affiliate with life is a deep and complicated process in mental development. To an extent still undervalued in philosophy and religion, our existence depends on this propensity, our spirit is woven from it hope rises on its currents.

If we have to translate it, wu-wei is probably best rendered as something like "effortless action" or spontaneous action.

My central argument is that getting drunk, high, or otherwise cognitively

Just as a novelist may sometimes wonder why he invents characters who do not exist and makes them do things which do not matter, so a philosopher may wonder why he invents cases that cannot occur in order to determine what must be the case.

Colors fade, temples crumble, empires fall, but wise words endure.

God is the cause that is 'cause of itself' (essence) and the Universe is the effect existing within the cause (existence). Essence involves existence.

Ah well, he thought, we do what we can. It makes little difference but we have to do it anyway. Stern's words, he suddenly realized. Stern's very own words spoken to him long ago, whispered now in the shadows in another time and place altogether. Strange, he thought. Time is.

Man maketh a death which Nature never made.

By night an atheist half believes a God.

By night an atheist half believes in God.

Men without an organized system of thought will always be at the mercy of men who have one.

A visionary psychologist examines and analyses, in all dimensions of the subject's nature, with the knowledge and ability of spirituality, philosophy, and politics, apart from its professional study. Otherwise, it represents only as a robot that circulates the content as its programme.

Adopting such philosophy and slogan, which describe, let everyone live, and live, for their living, show a marvelous humane leadership.

Education teaches a system of life, not a vision of philosophy since it holds a gift of God

Having no reason is also a reason.

Human life is itself a philosophy, loaded with knowledge and science in its brain.

Life owns own purpose, each one of us, breathes and struggles under that philosophy; thus, it defines; indeed, a conflict of self-interest in all dimensions.

Love is not a vertical philosophy; however, it fragrances a beautiful and energetic feeling, which breezes in each one of us.

Note: Whenever I study Albert Einstein's Quotes, I realize he was only a theoretical physicist but not a philosopher in the context of literature. What do you think about it? Weak people revenge Strong people forgive Intelligent people ignore - Albert Einstein Weak people stay powerless Strong people revenge Intelligent people forgive - Ehsan Sehgal