Philosophy Quotes - Page 176

The unprecedented success of Keynesianism is due to the fact that it provides an apparent justification for the 'deficit spending' policies of contemporary governments. It is the pseudo-philosophy of those who can think of nothing else than to dissipate the capital accumulated by previous generations.

There are philosophies which are unendurable not because men are cowards, but because they are men.

The falsest of all philosophies is that which, under the pretext of delivering men from the embarrassment of their passions, counsels idleness and the abandonment and neglect of themselves.

In good philosophy, the word cause ought to be reserved to the single Divine impulse that has formed the universe.

From the failure of the humanist tradition to participate fully or to act decisively, civilizations may perhaps crumble or perish at the hands of barbarians. But unless the humanist tradition itself in some form survives, there can really be no civilization at all.

The only thing constantly changing is change, and change is always changing for the worse.

The injuries we do in kind are visited upon us often. In the science of the mind, trying hard to move a shadow.

I want the principles of a timeless muse, I want to eradicate my negative views.

I want to be happy and free, living and loving for me.

You think that way as you begin to get grayer and you see pretty plainly that the game is not going to end as you planned.

Modern man lives increasingly in the future and neglects the present.

The late Président de Montesquieu told me that he knew how to be blind--he had been so for such a long time--but I swear that I do not know how to be deaf: I cannot get used to it, and I am as humiliated and distressed by it today as I was during the first week. No philosophy in the world can palliate deafness.

'Twas strange that one so young should thus concern His brain about the action of the sky; If you think 'twas philosophy that this did, I can't help thinking puberty assisted.

I hope to bring ancient philosophy and new scientific thinking together, to provide a new perspective of nature, especially the relationship between nature and man.

Others of us are lost. We're forever seeking. We torture ourselves with philosophies and ache to see the world. We question everything, even our own existence. We ask a lifetime of questions and are never satisfied with the answers because we don't recognize anyone as an authority to give them. We see life and the world as an enormous puzzle that we might never understand, that our questions might go unanswered until the day we die, almost never occurs to us. And when it does, it fills us with dread.

I was never a "big thinker". One of my philosophies in Linux has always been to not worry about the future too much, but make sure that we make the best of what we have now - together with keeping our options open for the future and not digging us into a hole.

There is more hope in a heather rose than in all the tons of Teutonic philosophy.

To me personally the only function of philosophy is to teach us to take life more lightly and gayly than the average businessman does, for no businessman who does not retire at fifty, if he can, is in my eyes a philosopher.

Any good practical philosophy must start out with the recognition of our having a body.

the blessings of matrimony, like those of poverty, belong rather to philosophy than reality.

My fundamental philosophy is that you owe it to society to transfer to them any knowledge you have that might be useful.

He who despises painting has no love for the philosophy in nature.

The British philosopher Bertrand Russell said that philosophy went downhill after Democritus and did not recover until the Renaissance.

Man's mind cannot grasp the causes of events in their completeness, but the desire to find the causes is implanted in man's soul.

School gives you the freedom to explore different philosophies, religions, aspects of yourself, and subjects.