Quotes About Philosophy

Si somos capaces de ser más fuertes que la muerte, no es en la fiesta de la vida, sino dominando el infinito mismo por medio del pensamiento.

Human efforts are ineffective" (N'atthi purisakare) was the slogan of the Âjîvikä(s).

The world only hides on thing, says Clément Rosset, and that is that it has nothing to hide. It is sufficient onto itself for its own unveiling. Meaning only appears as the result of the representations and interpretations man may give to it.

Nadamos en pleno utilitarismo teleológico: hay verdades que son indeseables porque no son rentables, y hay mentiras que son necesarias.

There is no hidden meaning to life ... looking for one is our problem solving brain chasing its tail

I'm not "happy" but I'm not unhappy about it.

This seems scientific and disarmingly undogmatic, but it ignores the fact that it is impossible to prove something doesn't exist.

If a man will begin with certainties, he will end in doubts," said Francis Bacon, "but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.

For at the very moment you have Now, it flees. It is gone. It is, on the instant, Then. Surely.

The German philosopher Nietzsche said that there are many more unhappy marriages than unhappy people. It isn't lack of love which makes for unhappy marriages, but lack of friendship within the marriage. Friendship is far more demanding than marriage, which is, after all, only a contract dealing with property and inheritance (from 'Bell of the Desert' by Alan Gold)

There is a sort of aesthetic poverty about conservatism

But what is the past? Could it be, the firmness of the past is just illusion? Could the past be a kaleidoscope, a pattern of images that shift with each disturbance of a sudden breeze, a laugh, a thought? And if the shift is everywhere, how would we know?

Some make light of decisions, arguing that all possible decisions will occur. In such a world, how could one be responsible for his actions? Others hold that each decision must be considered and committed to, that without commitment there is chaos. Such people are content to live in contradictory worlds, so long as they know the reason for each.

I propose to consider the question, "Can machines think?"

What makes a monster and what makes a man?

Behind this mask there is more than just flesh. Beneath this mask there is an idea... and ideas are bulletproof.

They say that life's a game, & then they take the board away.

A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.

It's always good to have a dog at your side. You can chatter away and people will just assume you're talking to your dog. Today my dog and I were having a philosophical discussion, even though I doubted seriously that we'd be mistaken for Diogenes and Rataplan.

Satchell Paige once posed the question, "How old would you be if you didn't know how old you are?

Watkins, S.B.,

Human nature is tabula rasa (a blank slate).7

Everything's dead, but good, because it's dead before coming alive, not dead after being alive. That's how I look at it.

We die, he said. We die, I said. And knowing this how do we live? Knowing this, we live. We live.