Quotes About Philosophy

And chances are that if you wanted to do well in that final, citing Ayn Rand probably wasn't the best strategy.

Disintegrationist philosophy of government boils down to a government without limits, administered by bureaucrats without accountability.

Athens rejected the concept of individual freedom beyond the freedom to pursue the virtuous in pursuit of telos; freedom merely meant self-control, the very opposite of what we often mean by freedom today.

The Athenian system of thought establishes certain fundamental notions crucial to happiness: the notion of telos, discoverable by us; the importance of reason-led investigation, leading to the birth of science; the recognition that social ties bind us to one another.

Economy is the aestethic of practical life - morality is its logic

No to laugh, not to lament, not to detest, but to understand.

Happiness is not the reward of virtue, but is virtue itself; nor do we delight in happiness because we restrain from our lusts; but on the contrary, because we delight in it, therefore we are able to restrain them.

He that can carp in the most eloquent or acute manner at the weakness of the human mind is held by his fellows as almost divine.

Nothing exists from whose nature some effect does not follow.

God is a thing that thinks.

Benevolentia nihil aliud est, quam cupiditas ex commiseratione orta.

War is to man what maternity is to a woman. From a philosophical and doctrinal viewpoint, I do not believe in perpetual peace.

Los buenos libros son asi, capaces de resumir toda la oscuridad de la existencia en una sola gota de tinta

All of us encounter, at least once in our life, some individual who utters words that make us think forever. There are men whose phrases are oracles; who can condense in one sentence the secrets of life; who blurt out an aphorism that forms a character, or illustrates an existence.

The question is this: Is man an ape or an angel? I am on the side of the angels.

Humans build square, Quirke thought, nature in the round.

Evolution and creationism both require faith. It's just a matter of where you choose to place that faith.

I may not be quite a real being. Je ne suis peut-être pas tout à fait un être réel.

A consistent soul believes in destiny, a capricious one in chance.

Where knowledge ends, religion begins.

Man must ever be the slave of routine: but in old days it was a routine of great thoughts, and now it is a routine of little ones.

A vida é muito curta para ser pequena

The use of the divine gift of common sense would teach the opponents of the philosophy that what was shown to be fraud was not spiritualism and that a doctrine that thrives in the midst of the bitterest oppression and grows in the fire of persecution has some measure of truth in its keeping to give it vitality.

It is a mistaken notion that all spiritual truth was given to the world in one complete system nearly 2000 years ago.