Philosophy – Page 2 – A Pondering Mind

“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

Six Words

Think freely. Speak freely. Live freely.

Free Will

“Life is like a game of cards. The hand you are dealt is determinism; the way you play it is free will.” ~ Jawaharlal Nehru

“Who lies for you will lie against you.” ~ John Locke

For What Its Worth

Everyday is a new day, and different from yesterday. Tomorrow will be different than today.

Philosophy is common sense with big words. ~James Madison

“Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.” ~Soren Kierkegaard

Watch Your Thoughts

“Watch your thoughts, they become words. Watch your words, they become actions. Watch your actions, they become habit.” ~ Laozi

Philosophical Animal

“It is difficult to obtain the friendship of a cat. It is a philosophical animal… one that does not place its affections thoughtlessly.” ~ Theophile Gautier

“Philosophical questions are not by their nature insoluble. They are, indeed, radically different from scientific questions, because they concern the implications and other interrelations of ideas, not the order of physical events; their answers are interpretations instead of factual reports, and their function is to increase not our knowledge of nature, but our understanding ofContinue reading “Philosophical Questions”

“Those who lack the courage will always find a philosophy to justify it.” ~ Albert Camus

“If you chase two rabbits,you catch none.” ~ Confucius

Are We Human

“A philosopher once asked, “Are we human because we gaze at the stars, or do we gaze at them because we are human?” Pointless, really…”Do the stars gaze back?” Now that’s a question.” ~ Neil Gaiman

To Be A Philosopher

“To be a philosopher is not merely to have subtle thoughts, nor even to found a school, but so to love wisdom as to live according to its dictates, a life of simplicity, independence, magnanimity and trust.” ~ Henry David Thoreau

“Life is just one cup of coffee after another, and don’t look for anything else.” ~Bertrand Russell

The Wonder Remains

“Philosophy begins in wonder. And, at the end, when philosophic thought has done its best, the wonder remains.” ~ Alfred North Whitehead

“There are no whole truths: All truths are half-truths.” ~Alfred North Whitehead

To think is to differ. ~Clarence Darrow

“A person is able to understand only when he solves the problem by himself.” ~Peter Deunov

Peter Deunov, Bulgarian Philosopher – July 11, 1864 – December 27, 1944

Nothing In Nature

“Nothing in nature is by chance… Something appears to be chance only because of our lack of knowledge.” ~ Baruch Spinoza

Human Conception

“Life is life – whether in a cat, or dog or man. There is no difference there between a cat or a man. The idea of difference is a human conception for man’s own advantage.” ~ Sri Aurobindo

Science is what you know. Philosophy is what you don’t know. ~ Bertrand Russell

Government can easily exist without laws, but law cannot exist without government. ~Bertrand Russell

Only one man ever understood me, and he didn’t understand me. ~ G. W. F. Hegel

Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons. ~ Bertrand Russell

“Of all ridiculous things the most ridiculous seems to me, to be busy.” -Soren Kierkegaard

“All of humanity’s problems stem from man’s lnability to sit quietly in a room alone.” -Blaise Pascal

“You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.” ~ Friedrich Nietzsche

It is a mania shared by philosophers of all ages to deny what exists and to explain what does not exist. ~Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver. ~William James

Liberty is the right to do what I like; license, the right to do what you like. ~ Bertrand Russell

Tomorrow is nothing, today is too late; the good lived yesterday. ~ Marcus Aurelius

The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple. ~ Oscar Wilde

“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

I may not have been sure about what really did interest me, but I was absolutely sure about what didn’t. ~ Albert Camus

Not to be absolutely certain is, I think, one of the essential things in rationality. ~ Bertrand Russell

The general laws of Nature are not, for the most part, immediate objects of perception. ~ George Boole

Two Kinds Of Truth

There are two kinds of truths: truth of reasoning and truths of fact. Truths of reasoning are necessary and their opposite is impossible; those of fact are contingent and their opposite is possible. ~ Gottfried Leibniz

Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don’t know. ~ Bertrand Russell

Truth is the cry of all, but the game of few. ~George Berkeley

Common Sense

Nothing is more fairly distributed than common sense: no one thinks he needs more of it than he already has. Rene Descartes

Life Is The Fire …..

Life is the fire that burns and the sun that gives light. Life is the wind and the rain and the thunder in the sky. Life is matter and is earth, what is and what is not, and what beyond is in Eternty. ~ Lucius Annaeus Seneca

A friend should be a master at guessing and keeping still: you must not want to see everything. ~Friedrich Nietzsche

It is said that the present is pregnant with the future. ~ Voltaire

He who is firm in will molds the world to himself. ~Johann Gottlieb Fichte

The test of the artist does not lie in the will with which he goes to work, but in the excellence of the work he produces. ~Thomas Aquinas

If there is a true universal mind, must it be sane? ~Charles Fort

Wondering Evermore

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“If you are lonely when you’re alone, you are in bad company.” ~ Jean-Paul Sartre

Jean-Paul Sartre, Philosopher – Born: June 21, 1905 – Died: April 15, 1980

There are two ways to be fooled. ~ Soren Kierkegaard

“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, Philosopher – B: May 5, 1813 – D: November 11, 1855

Pondering Moment

over analyzing a subject could drive possibly drive anybody batty

All colors will agree in the dark. ~ Francis Bacon

Francis Bacon, English philosopher and statesman (1561-1626)

“No matter how thin you slice it, there will always be two sides.” ~ Baruch Spinoza

I have a simple philosophy. Fill what’s empty. Empty what’s full. And scratch where it itches. ~ Alice Roosevelt Longworth

An Honest Politician ~ Bertrand Russell, Philosopher

“An honest politician will not be tolerated by a democracy unless he is very stupid … because only a very stupid man can honestly share the prejudices of more than half the nation.” ~ Bertrand Russell

Anyone Can Become Angry ~ Aristotle

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

Schools

Know Thyself

“The aim of human life is to know thyself. Think for yourself. Question authority. Think with your friends. Create, create new realities. Philosophy is a team sport. Philosophy is the ultimate, the ultimate aphrodisiac pleasure. Learning how to operate your brain, learning how to operate your mind, learning how to redesign chaos” – Timothy Leary

Quote ~ Victor Hugo

“An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.” – Victor Hugo

Being

Philosophical Quote

See without looking, hear without listening, breathe without asking. ~W.H. Auden

Books…

Books give a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and life to everything else. -Plato

Socrates

Sometimes you put walls up not to keep people out, but to see who cares enough to break them down. Socrates

Voltaire

It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong. Voltaire

Aristotle On Madness

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Man

Man: a being in search of meaning. Plato

Edna Ferber Quote

Roast beef, medium, is not only a food. It is a philosophy. Edna Ferber

Friedrich Nietzsche Quote

I and me are always too deep in conversation. Friedrich Nietzsche

Socrates Quote

To find yourself think for yourself. Socrates

This Is More Or Less True

Wordables

Albert Camus Quote

Wordables

K.M. Douglas Quote

There’s only one thing you can do: Toss your pebble in the river, watch it ripple, and know you have moved the ocean. – K.M. Douglas — from the App: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.cimaxapp.philosophicalquotes

Friedrich Nietzsche

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Voltaire Quote

The comfort of the rich depends upon an abundant supply of the poor. – Voltaire — from the App: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.cimaxapp.philosophicalquotes

Young Children

Young children are naturally so philosophical. They ask: ‘What is real? What is truth?’ They have to learn it; they don’t automatically know it. To them, it’s a game. You can study this for years in college, and yet you probably asked it when you were four or five years old. – Sharon Creech —Continue reading “Young Children”