“In constant pursuit of money to finance campaigns, the political system is simply unable to function. Its deliberative powers are paralyzed.” ~ John Rawls, Philosopher, 1921 – 2002
Tag Archives: Philosopher
“Lawyers sometimes tell the truth. They’ll do anything to win a case.” ~Jeremy Bentham
Jeremy Bentham, Philosopher, 1748 – 1832
“There is no such thing as freedom of choice unless there is freedom to refuse.” ~David Hume
Bricks
“A concept is a brick. It can be used to build a courthouse of reason. Or it can be thrown through the window.” ~ Gilles Deleuze, Philosopher, 1925 – 1995
“No matter how thin you slice it, there will always be two sides.” ~Baruch Spinoza
Two Ways To Be Fooled
“There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn’t true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true.” ~ Soren Kierkegaard
Words
Words differently arranged have a different meaning, and meanings differently arranged have different effects. ~ Blaise Pascal
The Poor
The poor don’t know that their function in life is to exercise our generosity. ~ Jean-Paul Sartre
The secret of theory is that truth does not exist. ~Jean Baudrillard
More And More Information
We live in a world where there is more and more information, and less and less meaning. ~ Jean Baudrillard, French philosopher, Born: June 27, 1929 – Died: March 6, 2007
Freedom Of Choice
“When we can’t think for ourselves, we can always quote” ~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
Living
What is called a reason for living is also an excellent reason for dying. ~Albert Camus
Hell isn’t other people. Hell is yourself. ~Ludwig Wittgenstein
Treasured Wealth
Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations. ~Henry David Thoreau
The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth. ~Albert Camus
Senseless To Think Of Complaining
It is therefore senseless to think of complaining since nothing foreign has decided what we feel, what we live, or what we are. `~Jean-Paul Sartre
“Rules for Happiness: something to do, someone to love, something to hope for.” ~Immanuel Kant
Immanuel Kant, Philosopher, Born: April 22, 1724 – Died: February 12, 1804
People
To know what people really think, pay regard to what they do rather than what they say. ~Rene Descartes
Shoes
“Our incomes are like our shoes; if too small, they gall and pinch us; but if too large, they cause us to stumble and to trip.” ~ John Locke
Life After Death
“The real question of life after death isn’t whether or not it exists, but even if it does what problem this really solves.” ~ Ludwig Wittgenstein, Philosopher ~ 1889 – 1951
“Nothing is everything that doesn’t happen at this very moment.” ~ Martin Heidegger
Boundaries
“A boundary is not that at which something stops, but that from which something begins.” ~ Martin Heidegger, Philosopher ~ 1889 – 1976
Dreaming
“It is possible that I am dreaming right now and that all of my perceptions are false.” ~ Rene Descartes, Philosopher ~ 1596 – 1650
“I know that I exist; the question is, What is this ‘I’ that ‘I’ know.” ~Rene Descartes
Fear
“To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.” ~ Bertrand Russell
“There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.” ~ Bertrand Russell
“The wise man can change his mind; the stubborn one, never.” ~Immanuel Kant
Sometimes people don’t want to hear the truth because they don’t want their illusions destroyed. ~Friedrich Nietzsche
I don’t know why we are here, but I’m pretty sure it is not in order to enjoy ourselves. ~Ludwig Wittgenstein
There is a life and there is a death, and there are beauty and melancholy between. ~Albert Camus
To Be
“To be is to be perceived (Esse est percipi).” Or, “If a tree falls in the forest and no one is there to hear it, does it make a sound?” ~ George Berkeley
“All perception is a gamble.” ~Edmund Husserl
People Know What They Do
“People know what they do; frequently they know why they do what they do; but what they don’t know is what what they do does.” ~ Michel Foucault, Philosopher – Born: October 15, 1926 – Died: June 25, 1984
“Ignorance leads to fear, fear leads to hate, and hate leads to violence. This is the equation.” ~Averroes
Averroes, Philosopher – Born: April 14, 1126-Died: December 10, 1198
The body
“The body is to be compared, not to a physical object, but rather to a work of art.” ~ Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Philosopher ~ 1908-1961
“All consciousness is consciousness of something” ~Edmund Husserl
Two People
“Whenever two people meet, there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself, each man as the other person sees him, and each man as he really is.” ~ William James
Time is the most unknown of all unknown things. ~Aristotle
Life is a shipwreck, but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats. ~Voltaire
“What worries you, masters you.” ~ John Locke
“Life is a constant process of dying.” ~Arthur Schopenhauer
“Just remember, once you’re over the hill you begin to pick up speed.” ~Arthur Schopenhauer
Majority Of Men
“The majority of men… are not capable of thinking, but only of believing, and… are not accessible to reason, but only to authority.” ~ Arthur Schopenhauer, Philosopher – 1788-1860
“If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.” ~Baruch Spinoza
“To choose not to choose is still to act.” ~Jean-Paul Sartre
One Day Left
“There is only one day left, always starting over: it is given to us at dawn and taken away from us at dusk.” ~ Jean-Paul Sartre
“I rebel; therefore I exist.” ~Albert Camus
Nihilist
A nihilist is not one who believes in nothing, but one who does not believe in what exists. ~ Albert Camus
“Curiosity is the lust of the mind.” ~ Thomas Hobbes
Thomas Hobbes – Philosopher, 1588-1679
“We are our choices.” ~Jean-Paul Sartre
“If you are lonely when you’re alone, you are in bad company.” ~Jean-Paul Sartre
“I know what I can know, and am not troubled about what I cannot know.” ~Johann Gottlieb Fichte*
*Philosopher, 1762-1814
Lie Is A Lie
“But a lie is a lie, and in itself intrinsically evil, whether it be told with good or bad intents.” ~ Immanuel Kant
You only know me as you see me, not as I actually am. ~Immanuel Kant
Three Things
“Three things tell a man: his eyes, his friends and his favorite quotes” ~ Immanuel Kant
“Every word has consequences. Every silence, too.” ~Jean-Paul Sartre
“How can you be certain that your whole life is not a dream?” ~ Rene Descartes
Good Books
“The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.” ~ Rene Descartes
“It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.” ~ Aristotle
“How can great minds be produced in a country where the test of great minds is agreeing in the opinion of small minds?” ~ John Stuart Mill
People Know What They Do ~ Michel Foucault
“People know what they do; frequently they know why they do what they do; but what they don’t know is what what they do does.” ~ Michel Foucault
Jean de la Bruyere Quote: Three Events
There are only three events in a man’s life; birth, life, and death; he is not conscience of being born, he dies in pain, and he forgets to live. -Jean de la Bruyere French Philosopher
Genius And Madness
“Genius and madness have something in common: both live in a world that is different from that which exists for everyone else.” ~ Arthur Schopenhauer
Quote: Soren Kierkegaard ~ Life
Thoughts
“Thoughts become perception, perception becomes reality. Alter your thoughts, alter your reality.” – William James
Life Is Short ~ Henri Frederic Amiel
J. L. Austin Quote
“A sentence is made up of words, a statement is made in words…. Statements are made, words or sentences are used.” – J. L. Austin
Justice For All
Lies
Good Books
Animal
“I don’t care whether animals are capable of thinking; all I care about is that they are capable of suffering!” – Jeremy Bentham
Ancient Philosopher
“According to the saying of an ancient philosopher, one should eat to live, and not live to eat” – Moliere
Reading ~ Judith Butler
“We lose ourselves in what we read, only to return to ourselves, transformed and part of a more expansive world.” – Judith Butler
Thinking
“Thinking begins when you ask really difficult questions.” – Slavoj Žižek
Marriage
A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband. ~Michel de Montaigne – (1533-1592) French Philosopher & Writer
Bertrand Russell
The idea that the poor should have leisure has always been shocking to the rich. Bertrand Russell, In praise of Idleness and other essays
Albert Camus Quote
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Bertrand Russell
Monday Morning Quote
“He was a dreamer, a thinker, a speculative philosopher… or, as his wife would have it, an idiot.” – Douglas Adams http://www.bquot.es/s/2136
Friday Morning Quote
American Philosopher Born: June 25, 1908 – Died: December 25, 2000
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Jose Ortega y Gasset Quote
Jose Ortega y Gasset – Spanish Philosopher. Born: May 9, 1883, Died: OCTOBER 18, 1955
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“Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber.” – Aristotle, http://www.bquot.es/s/1503
Age Quote by Francis Bacon
Francis Bacon, Philosopher – Born: January 21, 1561.
Quote
What can be shown, cannot be said. Ludwig Wittgenstein
Opinions
“New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common.” –John Locke
Centered
Zhuangzi 369 BC – 286 BC Chinese Philosopher Source
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November 7, 1913 – January 4, 1960 Philosopher
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Danger
A world is in danger, this planet is in great danger! Sun Ra May 22, 1914-May 30, 1993 Composer, Musician, Philosopher, Pianist and Poet Quotes Wave
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Criticism
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Learning
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Socrates
Socrates Keep this in mind the next time you are about to repeat a rumor or spread gossip. In ancient Greece (469 – 399 BC), Socrates was widely lauded for his wisdom. One day an acquaintance ran up to him excitedly and said, “Socrates, do you know what I just heard about Diogenes?” “Wait aContinue reading “Socrates”
My definition of a philosopher …..
My definition of a philosopher is of a man up in a balloon, with his family and friends holding the ropes which confine him to earth and trying to haul him down. — Louisa May Alcott
