Philosophical Quotes - Page 23

The mere passage of time makes us all exiles.

Each forward step we take we leave some phantom of ourselves behind.

It takes time for change to take place. But then when huge changes are taking place, they are extraordinary. And it requires a kind of philosophical thinking, thinking in terms of epochs.

You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.

Death and life have their determined appointments; riches and honors depend upon heaven.

We know very little, and yet it is astonishing that we know so much, and still more astonishing that so little knowledge can give us so much power.

It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence which could support this.

Ambition is the immoderate desire for honor.

It is commonly said that if rational argument is so seldom the cause of conviction, philosophical apologists must largely be wasting their shot. The premise is true, but the conclusion does not follow. For though argument does not create conviction, the lack of it destroys belief. What seems to be proved may not be embraced; but what no one shows the ability to defend is quickly abandoned. Rational argument does not create belief, but it maintains a climate in which belief may flourish.

Change in all things is sweet.

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.

To affirm life is to deepen, to make more inward, and to exalt the will-to-life. At the same time the man who has become a thinking being feels a compulsion to give every will-to-live the same reverence for life that he gives to his own. He experiences that other life as his own. He accepts as being good: to preserve life, to raise to its highest value life which is capable of development; and as being evil: to destroy life, to injure life, to repress life which is capable of development. This is the absolute, fundamental principle of the moral, and it is a necessity of thought.

Philosophy is at once the most sublime and the most trivial of human pursuits.

The Web is now philosophical engineering. Physics and the Web are both about the relationship between the small and the large.

Well-ordered self-love is right and natural.

How then did we come to the "standard model"? And how has it supplanted other theories, like the steady state model? It is a tribute to the essential objectivity of modern astrophysics that this consensus has been brought about, not by shifts in philosophical preference or by the influence of astrophysical mandarins, but by the pressure of empirical data.

Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.

The uninitiated are those who believe in nothing except what they can grasp in their hands, and who deny the existence of all that is invisible.

Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.

Most artists, or at least most of the ones I know, deny having a philosophical outlook that they try to translate into their works. Some had thought of the work of Cezanne and others as being a 'painted epistemology.' But Cezanne himself denied this and Daniel-Henri Kahnwiler, the art critic and art dealer, insisted that none of the many painters he had known had a philosophical culture.

The New Atheists are not open or willing to go where the evidence leads, unless that evidence sustains their own naturalistic assumptions. They have covertly reduced all philosophical thought and deduction to-- ironically-fait h!

If particulars are to have meaning, there must be universals.

Tardiness often robs us opportunity, and the dispatch of our forces.

In the Bible, there is no mention of the Trinity. . . . We get to know God, not through our proud philosophical concepts, but through Christ.

Each thing is of like form from everlasting and comes round again in its cycle...