Quotes About Philosophize

To think is to forget a difference, to generalize, to abstract.

To think is to ignore the differences, to generalize, to abstract.

To ridicule philosophy is really to philosophize.

To ponder is not to brood or grieve or even meditate. It is to wonder at a deep level.

Think and wonder, wonder and think.

Philosophize: you are a mistress, part of a great hysterical you mean historical tradition.

Indeed!" I murmured.

How very paltry and limited the normal human intellect is, and how little lucidity there is in the human consciousness, may be judged from the fact that, despite the ephemeral brevity of human life, the uncertainty of our existence and the countless enigmas which press upon us from all sides, everyone does not continually and ceaselessly philosophize, but that only the rarest of exceptions do.

He fell prey to a common fallacy. He wanted to philosophize, that is, to play God; for what is philosophy, in the end, but the desire to understand things to a degree greater than science permits?

Writer does nothing, But think deeply.

To ridicule philosophy is really to philosophize.

But you who philosophize disgrace and criticize all fears Take the rag away from your face Now ain't the time for your tears.

There is something stunningly narrow about how the Anthropic Principle is phrased. Yes, only certain laws and constants of nature are consistent with our kind of life. But essentially the same laws and constants are required to make a rock. So why not talk about a Universe designed so rocks could one day come to be, and strong and weak Lithic Principles? If stones could philosophize, I imagine Lithic Principles would be at the intellectual frontiers.

The degeneration of philosophical schools in its turn is the consequence of the mistaken belief that one can philosophize without having been compelled to philosophize by problems outside philosophy. …

It is nonsense to speak of 'higher' and 'lower' pleasures. To a hungry man it is, rightly, more important that he eat than that he philosophize.

I still seem to hear Sniatynski's words: "Do not philosophize her away, as you have philosophized away your abilities and your thirty-five years of life." I know it leads to nothing, I know it is wrong, but I do not know how not to think. 13

It's cool to think about stuff bigger than ourselves" -Chris