Quotes About Philosophy

If you are happy in a dream, Ammu, does that count? Estha asked. Does what count? The happiness does it count?. She knew exactly what he meant, her son with his spoiled puff. Because the truth is, that only what counts, counts.....If you eat fish in a dream, does it count? Does it mean you've eaten fish?

If you're happy in a dream…does that count? The happiness–does it count?

If you're happy in a dream, Ammu, does that count?' Estha asked. 'Does what count?' 'The happiness—does it count?' She knew exactly what he meant, her son with his spoiled puff. Because the truth is, that only what /counts/ counts. The simple, unswerving truth of children. If you eat fish in a dream, does it count? Does it mean you've eaten fish?

Socrates asked the key question: why should we be moral?

If you're happy in a dream, does that count? The happiness - does it count?

Of the four things that were Possible in Human Nature, Rahel thought that Infinnate Joy sounded the saddest.

Gandhi actually said everything and it's opposite. To cherry pickers, he offers such a bewildering variety of cherries that you have to wonder if there was something the matter with the tree.

If you are happy in a dream, Ammu, does that count? Estha asked. Does what count? The happiness does it count?

Life may have no meaning. Or even worse, it may have a meaning of which I disapprove.

We are running up against the difficulty of maintaining a coherent philosophical distinction between giving people the right to stop external or artificial processes that prolong their lives and giving them the right to stop the natural, internal processes that do so. At root, the debate is about what mistakes we fear most—the mistake of prolonging suffering or the mistake of shortening valued life.

Josiah Royce wrote a book with the title The Philosophy of Loyalty.

As Montaigne wrote, observing late-sixteenth-century life, "To die of age is a rare, singular, and extraordinary death, and so much less natural than others: it is the last and extremest kind of dying.

Josiah Royce

We are running up against the difficulty of maintaining a coherent philosophical distinction between giving people the right to stop external or artificial processes that prolong their lives and giving them the right to stop the natural, internal processes that do so

The lesson seems almost Zen: you live longer only when you stop trying to live longer. *

The second type of failure the philosophers call ineptitude—because in these instances the knowledge exists, yet we fail to apply it correctly.

Ronald Dworkin

Neff's philosophy is, as he put it, "hard on behavior but soft on the person.

The main objection to killing people as a punishment...is that killing people is wrong

Tenses are a way of ordering the chaos around time.

I thought of the African way of perceiving life, as experience to be lived rather than as problem to be solved.

At the same time we organize behind specific and urgent issues, we must also develop and maintain an ongoing vision, and the theory following upon that vision, of why we struggle—of the shape and taste and philosophy of what we wish to see.

The white fathers told us: I think, therefore I am. The Black mother within each of us — the poet — whispers in our dreams: I feel, therefore I can be free.

theology, the doctrine of God, which is always attacked and ridiculed by philosophy, which claims to be wisdom itself. And medicine, which always questions the validity of philosophy, and doesn't consider theology a science but a superstition…