Tag Archives: Philosophy
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
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.” ~Â 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
Picture Quotes . com
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
Credit:Â http://wordables.com
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.
Quote
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”
Simple Philosophy
I have a simple philosophy. Fill what’s empty. Empty what’s full. And scratch where it itches. — Alice Roosevelt Longworth
Is God able to prevent evil, but not prevent… Epicurus
Happiness… – Aristotle
Click on image to enlarge it.
You must be logged in to post a comment.