Philosophical Quotes - Page 36

Reason well from the beginning and then there will never be any need to look back with confusion and doubt.

They lived freely among the students, they argued with the men over philosophical, sociological and artistic matters, they were just as good as the men themselves: only better, since they were women.

Some people say What's the use of the term if it has to be so fully documented and constrained and footnoted and all the rest. My response to that is: there is no theological word that does not have to be similarly footnoted and constrained: justification, spirit, sanctification etc. Any term can be distorted or domesticated or fly off the handle because of another alien philosophical structure that's imposed on the text and so on. Inerrancy is no different from what we find in every other theologically loaded word.

The partition separating life from death is so tenuous. The unbelievable fragility of our organism suggests a vision on a screen: a kind of mist condenses itself into a human shape, lasts a moment and scatters.

The object of the superior man is truth.

A fool marvels at rare things, but a wise man at common ones.

If at first you don't succeed, then drag racing isn't for you.

No philosophical theory which I have yet come across is a radical improvement on the words of Genesis, that 'In the beginning God made Heaven and Earth'.

The philosophical idea that there are no more distances, that we are all just one world, that we are all brothers, is such a drag! I like differences.

Music is the melody whose text is the world.

Because people have no thoughts to deal in, they deal cards, and try and win one another's money. Idiots!

He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god.

Courage is a mean with regard to fear and confidence.

Men and women are not free to love decently until they have analyzed themselves completely and swept away every mystery from sex; and this means the acquisition of a profound philosophical theory based on wide reading of anthropology and enlightened practice.

We are all but recent leaves on the same old tree of life and if this life has adapted itself to new functions and conditions, it uses the same old basic principles over and over again. There is no real difference between the grass and the man who mows it.

Let us say in passing that since (philosophical) remedies are often worse than the malady, our age, in order to be cured of the Plato sickness, has swallowed such doses of a relativist, vaguely skeptical, lightly spiritualist and insipidly moralist medicine, that it is in the process of gently dying, in the small bed of its supposed democratic comfort.

Neither a borrower nor a lender be.

I am only a philosopher, and there is only one thing that a philosopher can be relied on to do, and that is, to contradict other philosophers.

It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.

No one knows enough to be a pessimist

See without looking, hear without listening, breathe without asking.

In strife who inquires whether stratagem or courage was used?

I think that there is an ongoing conspiracy in the philosophical community, an organized form of self-deception, as in a cult, to simply all together pretend that we knew what "first-person perspective" (or "quale" or "consciousness") means, so that we can keep our traditional debates running on forever.

Moral science is better occupied when treating of friendship than of justice.

Reason in man is rather like God in the world.