Philosophy – Page 3 – A Pondering Mind

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

“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

out the door with the backpack containing only with the basics of necessities in order to find seek/ search/ and/or locate the meaning of truth that is does it truly exist or is it a figment of our collective imagination if so then can we say that the human race is living in a worldContinue reading “Wondering Evermore”

“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”

Bertrand Russell

Thursday Evening Quote

Brainy Quote

Monday Evening Quote

Wilhelm von Humbolt Russian Philosopher Born: June 22, 1767 – Died: April 8, 1835 Brainy Quote

Jose Ortega y Gasset Quote

Jose Ortega y Gasset – Spanish Philosopher. Born: May 9, 1883, Died: OCTOBER 18, 1955

Socrates Quote

“Employ your time in improving yourself by other men’s writing so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for.” -Socrates

Georg C. Lichtenberg Quote

Born: July 1, 1742 – Died: February 24, 1799 German scientist, satirist and Anglophile.

Quote

“This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.” – Dalai Lama http://www.bquot.es/s/84

Quote

“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

Opinion

Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance. Plato

Free Thinking

Others indeed may talk, and write, and fight about liberty, and make outward pretense to it; but the free-thinker alone is truly free. George Berkeley

Wealth

Wealth is like sea-water; the more we drink, the thirstier we become; and the same is true of fame. Sir Arthur Charles Clarke

I Live

I live for today. Tomorrow I will, that is if it comes, as we never know what will happen. Yesterday, why dwell on it. It’s done. It’s history. What ever happened, happened. So why worry about it. Move on. That’s my philosophy.

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November 7, 1913 – January 4, 1960 Philosopher

Observation

The Indian philosopher J. Krishnamurti once remarked that observing without evaluating is the highest form of human intelligence. When I first read this statement, the thought, ‘What nonsense!’ shot through my mind before I realized that I had just made an evaluation. — Marshall Rosenberg

Advice

Look, I really don’t want to wax philosophical, but I will say that if you’re alive, you got to flap your arms and legs, you got to jump around a lot, you got to make a lot of noise, because life is the very opposite of death. And therefore, as I see it, if you’reContinue reading “Advice”

Teach

Source

Philosophy and Art ….

Philosophy and Art both render the invisible visible by imagination. — George Henry Lewes

The Zen philosophy …..

The Zen philosophy posits that ‘human beings suffer’ and ‘the cause of suffering is desire.’ The way to put an end to suffering is to stop wanting everything, all the time. — Karl Albrecht

Truth

Socrates showed us that thinking the truth is not enough. Truth demands to be lived. –Americ Azevedo

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”