Quotes About Philosophy

That neither our thoughts, nor passions, nor ideas formed by the imagination, exist without the mind, is what every body will allow.

I can never decide whether my dreams are the result of my thoughts, or my thoughts the result of my dreams.

The main difference in the effectiveness of teaching comes from the thoughts the teacher has had during the entire time of his or her existence and brings into the classroom. A teacher concerned with developing humans affects the students quite differently from a teacher who never thinks about such things.

Hillary Clinton bothers me a lot. I realized the other day that her thoughts sound a lot like Karl Marx. She hangs around a lot of Marxists. All her friends are Marxists.

Reason enables us to get around in the world of ideas, but cannot prescribe our thoughts.

Not one man in a thousand has the strength of mind or the goodness of heart to be an atheist.

Sixty-four thousand dollars for a question, I hope they are asking you the meaning of life.

Really, there's hardly anything to say about anything. I mean, you could say it all, all that mattered, in a few sentences.

The point is, there is no point." Philip spoke up surprisingly. "No one here gets out alive. And over a sufficient period of time, all choices tend to normalize on a curve of random distribution." "You mean if you wait long enough, nothing happens?

Einstein said, "There are two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.

The differences between Plato and Aristotle had already been much debated. The argument stretched back to ancient Greece, where Aristotle had criticized and corrected Plato, the teacher with whom he began to study in 367 BC, when he was seventeen and Plato around sixty.

The natural world we perceive through our senses is, for Plato, a defective and incomplete version of this more perfect and timeless realm in the same way that (in the famous metaphor from Book 7 of The Republic) the images seen by the prisoners shackled in their cave are the shadows of the real objects for which the prisoners, in their ignorance, mistake them.

Soon after Plato's death, Aristotle attacked the theory in On Philosophy, later expanding his criticism in his Metaphysics. He denied that a form could exist without matter, and the realm of Forms possessed, he believed, no objective validity. Plato put forth nothing but words—what Aristotle disparaged as "empty phrases and poetical metaphors.

Nothing is lost; destruction is only a name for a change of substance Lucretius, On the Nature of Things, c. 50 BC

An adult's mentality or philosophy about children is what guides and governs his or her response when a student is not doing well. Many schools have adopted a kids do well if they can mentality. Regrettably, many are still stuck in the kids do well if they want to rut.

Not afraid to die , but not the fear of death

The issue is the same today. What is our standard; by what standard shall we approach the problems of philosophy and the problems of everyday life? If we begin with anything other than the ontological Trinity, with the sovereignty of God as intellectually applied and systematically delineated in every aspect and avenue of human thought, we end with the destruction of Christian theology and the deterioration of Christian life.

A professor, who had left teaching soon after World War II, lectured to a group of students at a major Western university a few years ago on the decline of liberty. To his shock, one of the first questions asked by a student was simply this: "What's so wonderful about liberty? What makes you think it is necessary for man?" For the students, security was a necessary social objective; liberty was not.

Mysticism is always incapable of dealing with the problems of culture because it is a denial of their validity.

For twelve hundred years Mullahs have been writing proofs of the existence of God. Believe me, I've taught theology for a long time - none of them is real proof. The only real proof can come through illumination.

knowledge of our own mortality

Nada de filosofías, nada de finalidades trascendentes, ni de abstracciones sensibilizadas, humanizadas y universalizadas. Eso, estoy seguro, hiere vuestros tímpanos delicados hechos para la música y el amor.

No sabemos explicarnos por qué el halcón devora a la paloma, y nuestra ignorancia se retuerce contra el Creador del Cielo y de la tierra, origen de la justicia y fuente de todo bien.

A ideia de que a medicina é uma luta contra a morte está errada. A medicina é uma luta pela vida boa, da qual a morte faz parte.