Quotes About Philosophy

Reid's maxim, "I despise philosophy and renounce its guidance; let my soul dwell in common sense.

Evolution" is not a bad word for the version of nature that Aristotle brings to the philosophical table.14 It is a world in which all things, puppies, men, plants, and animals, are constantly altering and changing, a nature in which all of us emerge from something and grow into something else without losing our identities, either as individuals or as part of a class of individuals (so even if Rover grows up to look nothing like his earlier puppy self, he is still Rover).

One could say that Aristotle had turned Plato on his head. Instead of the individual being a pale copy of a more real abstract form, the universal is less real (indeed only a copy) of the individual.15 This reversal left Aristotle's philosophy with a built-in bias in favor of the individual: in science, in metaphysics, in ethics, and later in politics.

And almost everyone when age,Disease, or sorrows strike him,Inclines to think there is a God,Or something very like Him.

Redeneren wordt je dood. Het is overleven op intuitie of anders niet. Geloof me, bij een leven als dit moet je niet te lang stilstaan.

The Yogi and the Commissar

One may not regard the world as a sort of metaphysical brothel for emotions.

The only atheism is the denial of truth.

Otuz y?ld?r," diye devam etti, "gerçeklerle boÄŸuÅŸuyorum; ÅŸimdi düÅŸ zaman?.

Every branch of human knowledge, if traced up to its source and final principles, vanishes into mystery.

I! I who fashioned myself a sorcerer or an angel, who dispensed with all morality, I have come back to the earth.

Morality is the weakness of the mind.

My wisdom is as spurned as chaos. What is my nothingness, compared to the amazement that awaits you?

Nous ne pouvons savoir ! - Nous sommes accablés D'un manteau d'ignorance et d'étroites chimères ! Singes d'hommes tombés de la vulve des mères, Notre pâle raison nous cache l'infini ! Nous voulons regarder : - le Doute nous punit ! Le doute, morne oiseau, nous frappe de son aile... - Et l'horizon s'enfuit d'une fuite éternelle !...

For the pagan there's no hell." - Arthur Rimbaud

Morala nu-i decât o sl?biciune a creierului.

What was I in the century past: I only find myself today. The vagabonds, the hazy wars are gone. The inferior race has swept over all - the People, as they put it, Reason; Nation and Science.

Of course there is no formula for success except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings.

Lebensklugheit bedeutet: Alle Dinge möglichst wichtig, aber keines völlig ernst zu nehmen.

Unter Antinomien nicht zusammenbrechen, das ist unsere Lebensaufgabe.

Dieu est-il le rêve de l'humanité? Ce serait trop beau. L'humanité est-elle le rêve de Dieu? Ce serait trop abominable.

Patriotism, when it wants to make itself felt in the domain of learning, is a dirty fellow who should be thrown out of doors.

To desire immortality is to desire the eternal perpetuation of a great mistake

Religion is the metaphysics of the masses.