Philosophical Quotes - Page 7

As people are walking all the time, in the same spot, a path appears.

To hate, to love, to think, to feel, to see; all this is nothing but to perceive.

We must remember that nothing in this world really belongs to us. At best, we are merely borrowers.

The whole is more than the sum of its parts.

Every man is a creature of the age in which he lives and few are able to raise themselves above the ideas of the time.

Whosoever desires constant success must change his conduct with the times.

The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing.

In truth,there was only one christian and he died on the cross.

It is nobler to declare oneself wrong than to insist on being right --especially when one is right.

Stop thinking about art works as objects, and start thinking about them as triggers for experiences.

A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.

Thinking in terms of risk certainly has its unsettling aspects (...), but it is also a means of seeking to stabilise outcomes, a mode of colonising the future. The more or less constant, profound and rapid momentum of change characteristic of modern institutions, coupled with structured reflexivity, mean that on the level of everyday practice as well as philosophical [Seitenwechsel] interpretation, nothing can be taken for granted. What is acceptable/appropriate/recommended behaviour today may be seen differently tomorrow in the light of altered circumstances or incoming knowledge-claims.

Faith has to do with things that are not seen and hope with things that are not at hand.

Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.

Faced with what is right, to leave it undone shows a lack of courage.

Man can alter his life by altering his thinking.

There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.

Semiotics is a general theory of all existing languages... all forms of communication - visual, tactile, and so on... There is general semiotics, which is a philosophical approach to this field, and then there are many specific semiotics.

Evolutionary naturalism takes the inherent limitations of science and turns them into a devastating philosophical weapon: because science is our only real way of knowing anything, what science cannot know cannot be real.

Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.

Everyone has an enemy. It's why God gave us baseball bats. Well, He gave us trees, but we knew what He meant.

Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.

Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think.

Personal beauty is a greater recommendation than any letter of reference.

Science spotlights three dimensions of nature that point to God. The first is the fact that nature obeys laws. The second is the dimension of life, of intelligently organized and purpose-driven beings, which arose from matter. The third is the very existence of nature. But it is not science alone that has guided me. I have also been helped by a renewed study of the classical philosophical arguments.