Philosophical Quotes - Page 46

Where a man can live, he can also live well.

In the sort of screen dappled with different states of mind which my consciousness would simultaneously unfold while I read, and which ranged from the aspirations hidden deepest within me to the completely exterior vision of the horizon which I had, at the bottom of the garden, before my eyes, what was first in me, innermost, the constantly moving handle that controlled the rest, was my belief in the philosophical richness and beauty of the book I was reading, and my desire to appropriate them for myself, whatever that book might be.

Not a physical migration, but a cultural, psychological, philosophical migration back to Africa, which means the restoring our common bond will give us the spiritual strength and the incentive to strengthen our political and social and economic position right here in America, and to fight for the things that are ours by right here on this continent.

Logic must look after itself. In a certain sense, we cannot make mistakes in logic.

Philosophy aims at the logical clarification of thoughts. Philosophy is not a body of doctrine but an activity. A philosophical work consists essentially of elucidations.

People are deeply imbedded in philosophical, i.e., grammatical confusions. And to free them presupposes pulling them out of the immensely manifold connections they are caught up in.

You get tragedy where the tree, instead of bending, breaks.

When one is frightened of the truth then it is never the whole truth that one has an inkling of.

A philosophical problem has the form: I don't know my way about.

Newton, Pascal, Bossuet, Racine, F?nelon -- that is to say, some of the most enlightened men on earth, in the most philosophical of all ages -- have been believers in Jesus Christ; and the great Cond?, when dying, repeated these noble words, "Yes, I shall see God as He is, face to face!".

... I shall go on making sublime and philosophical discoveries, and employing myself in deep, abstract studies.

While the miser is merely a capitalist gone mad, the capitalist is a rational miser.

People habituate themselves to let things pass through their minds, as one may speak, rather than to think of them. Thus by use they become satisfied merely with seeing what is said, without going any further. Review and attention, and even forming a judgment, becomes fatigue; and to lay anything before them that requires it, is putting them quite out of their way.

The good is, like nature, an immense landscape in which man advances through centuries of exploration.

The memory of how we work will endure beyond the products of our work.

So much of what we try to do is get to a point where the solution seems inevitable: you know, you think "of course it's that way, why would it be any other way?" It looks so obvious, but that sense of inevitability in the solution is really hard to achieve.

That's an interesting thing about an object. One object speaks volumes about the company that produced it and its values and priorities.

Where all is but dream, reasoning and arguments are of no use, truth and knowledge nothing.

Where there is no property there is no injustice.

If one has not read the newspapers for some months and then reads them all together, one sees, as one never saw before, how much time is wasted with this kind of literature.

It is our philosophical set of the sail that determines the course of our lives. To change our current Direction, we have to change our philosophy, not our circumstances.

Everything that exists is born for no reason, carries on living through weakness, and dies by accident

I hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.

Take from the philosopher the pleasure of being heard and his desire for knowledge ceases.

Put a chair against the door, and turn the lights down low Write a letter to yourself, no one will ever know