Quotes About Philosophy

If nothing matters, why rage?

Principle five behind the Startup Way philosophy is continuous transformation: All of this requires the development of a new organizational capability: the ability to rewrite the organization's DNA in response to new and diverse challenges. It would be a shame to transform only once. When a company has figured out how to transform, it can - and should - be prepared to do it many more times in the future.

How are you sure we're alive?

Plato theorized that the world could be described in three dimensions. The first dimension is the world of the ideal forms (which is the primary reality). The second is the material world created by God. The third is psychological, which is a reflection of the ideal through material.

Poincaré [was] the last man to take practically all mathematics, pure and applied, as his province. ... Few mathematicians have had the breadth of philosophic vision that Poincaré had, and none in his superior in the gift of clear exposition.

As Whitehead has observed, "No Roman lost his life because he was absorbed in the contemplation of a mathematical diagram.

Commenting on the return of Descartes' remains to his native France, Jacobi remarks that "It is often more convenient to possess the ashes of great men than to possess the men themselves during their lifetime.

This queer crotchet [of Hamilton's] that algebra is the science of pure time has attracted many philosophers, and quite recently it has been exhumed and solemnly dissected by owlish metaphysicians seeking the philosopher's stone in the gall bladder of mathematics.

Religion, like philosophy, is a living thing. If it isn't allowed to change with the times, if it is left to calcify, it will surely become irrelevant

The death of the spirit is the price of progress.

The first principle of Gnosticism is the nonrecognition of reality.

The spirit as system requires the murder of God; and, conversely, in order to commit the murder of God the system is fashioned.

Coining a new language, either by giving new meanings to familiar terms or by inventing new technical terms, is one of the most effective devices for eclipsing reality.

El mundo occidental atraviesa una grave crisis, un proceso de descomposición cuya causa es la secularización del espíritu, la separación de un espíritu mundanizado respecto de sus raíces religiosas.

Philosophy springs from the love of being; it is man's loving endeavor to perceive the order of being and attune himself to it. Gnosis desires dominion over being; in order to seize control of being the gnostic constructs his system. The building of systems is a gnostic form of reasoning, not a philosophical one.

Popper is philosophically so uncultured, so fully a primitive ideological brawler, that he is not able to even approximately to reproduce correctly the contents of one page of Plato. Reading is of no use to him; he is too lacking in knowledge to understand what the author says.

Tu es comme tous les jeunes gens, tu attends le grand amour et la vraie philosophie. Au singulier. Rien qu'au singulier. C'est cela le travers de la jeunesse : le singulier.

La souffrance physique on la subit, la souffrance morale on la choisit.

Il n'y a pas de solution à la vie sinon vivre.

Enfin, le soufisme n'était pas une maladie, ce qui m'a déjà rassuré un peu, c'était une façon de penser -même s'il y a des façons de penser qui sont aussi des maladies, disait souvent monsieur Ibrahim.

It was Plato who bridged the gap between poetry and philosophy; for, in his work, appearance, despised by his Eleatic and Sophist predecessors, became a reflected image of perfection. He set poets the task of writing philosophically, not only in the sense of giving instruction, but in the sense of striving, by the imitation of appearance, to arrive at its true essence and to show its insufficiency measured by the beauty of the Idea.

Vico, who looks at the whole of human history and says, "mind made all this

It is what it is

Socialism is the abolition of human self-alienation, the return of man as a real human being.