Philosophical Quotes - Page 22

Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason.

Mathematics has a threefold purpose. It must provide an instrument for the study of nature. But this is not all: it has a philosophical purpose, and, I daresay, an aesthetic purpose.

To know what people really think, pay regard to what they do, rather than what they say.

The time when most of you should withdraw into yourself is when you are forced to be in a crowd.

The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows where he is going.

The consciousness of self is the greatest hindrance to the proper execution of all physical action.

Whatsoever is, is in God, and without God nothing can be, or be conceived.

True virtue is life under the direction of reason.

The reason the Romans built their great paved highways was because they had such inconvenient footwear.

It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.

The traditional disputes of philosophers are, for the most part, as unwarranted as they are unfruitful.

My position is a naturalistic one; I see philosophy not as an a priori propaedeutic or groundwork for science, but as continuous with science. I see philosophy and science as in the same boat--a boat which, to revert to Neurath's figure as I so often do, we can rebuild only at sea while staying afloat in it. There is no external vantage point, no first philosophy.

Part of what made the Macintosh great was that the people working on it were musicians and poets and artists and zoologists and historians who also happened to be the best computer scientists in the world.

I think it's in our nature to try to get beyond that next horizon. I think that when we as a species are scratching that itch we're actually following an evolutionary compulsion that is wired into us. I think good things come of it. That's the philosophical side.

I wish to die knowing that I took a fleeting instant of eternity and fashioned from it a lifetime.

The zipper displaces the button and a man lacks just that much time to think while dressing at dawn, a philosophical hour, and thus a melancholy hour.

If you suffer it is because of you, if you feel blissful it is because of you. Nobody else is responsible - only you and you alone. You are your hell and your heaven too.

Once the philosophical foundation of democracy has collapsed, the statement that dictatorship is bad is rationally valid only for those who are not its beneficiaries, and there is no theoretical obstacle to the transformation of this statement into its opposite.

Thrift is of great revenue.

The harvest of old age is the recollection and abundance of blessing previously secured.

Men exist for the sake of one another.

The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts.

Most of the propositions and questions to be found in philosophical works are not false but nonsensical.

Hamlet and Victor Frankenstein are each obsessed with death. Hamlet's whole story is a philosophical preparation for death; Victor's is an intellectual refusal to accept it.

Landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed.