Quotes About Philosophy

It's astonishing how folks can get so worked up over something that doesn't exist.

what is is, as Grandma Win used to say, and what can't be cured must be endured, and laugh and the world laughs with you but cry and you cry alone.

I did not worry about what a man or woman personally believed, but the nation's official religion should be outwardly practiced by all its citizens. A religion was a political statement. Being a Calvinist, a papist, a Presbyterian, an Anglican labeled a person's philosophy on education, taxes, poor relief, and other secular things. The nation needed an accepted position on such concerns. Hence the fines for not outwardly conforming to the national church.

Las pruebas arqueológicas e históricas apuntan resueltamente hacia Hobbes y hacia la guerra como parte integral y duradera de la experiencia humana.

For Ashley was born of a line of men who used their leisure for thinking, not doing, for spinning brightly colored dreams that had in them no touch of reality... He looked on people, and he neither liked nor disliked them. He looked on life and was neither heartened nor saddened. He accepted the universe and his place in it for what they were and, shrugging, turned to his music and books and his better world.

He looked on people, and he neither liked nor disliked them. He looked on life and was neither heartened nor saddened. He accepted the universe and his place in it for what they were and, shrugging, turned to his music and books and his better world.

born in a line of men who used their leisure for thinking, not doing, for spinning brightly coloured dreams that had in them no touch of reality.

I would trade all of my technology for an afternoon with Socrates.

The question concerning technology is the question concerning the constellation in which revealing and concealing, in which the coming to presence of truth, comes to pass

The real technology -behind all our other technologies- is language. It actually creates the world our consciousness lives in.

It is a mania shared by philosophers of all ages to deny what exists and to explain what does not exist.

More science and more technology are not going to get us out of the present ecological crises until we find a new religion, or rethink our old one.

Philosophy fulfills the need to create for ourselves a single and complete concept of the world and of life.

Philosophy began when man ate the produce of the earth and suffered indigestion.

A theory must be tempered with reality.

And what is religion, you might ask. It's a technology of living.

I consider myself a 3-D philosopher. I am not a designer at all. I studied aerodynamics, I studied philosophy, I studied sculpture. High technology on one side, and on the other side, art.

All abstract sciences are nothing but the study of relations between signs.

These terrible sociologists, who are the astrologers and alchemists of our twentieth century.

There are more truths in twenty-four hours of a man's life than in all the philosophies.

In a way, technologies have negated the transcendental God in order to invent the machine-God. However, these two gods raise similar questions.

The sea in all its vastness is its own, real world. Man is nature's sci-fi.

Be wary of technology; it is often merely an improved means to an unimproved end.

I'm hoping the reader can see that artificial intelligence is better understood as a belief system instead of a technology.