Philosophy Quotes

We don’t think, we think we think

~ Natasha Tsakos

Thinking, it seems, is a difficult undertaking RjS

~ Rassool Jibraeel Snyman

What do the words “plant” and “plan” have in common? Yes, correct, it’s the word PLAN. Mind Gardening is a mindful thinking and planning philosophy.

~ Stan Jacobs

Perfectionists are neurotic people. The world is perfectly beautiful in its imperfection.

~ Rahul Karn

A little thinking is a dangerous thing.

~ Salman Rushdie

pg.90 of Philosophy in the Flesh: We are basing our argument on the existence of at least three stable scientific findings--the embodied mind, the cognitive unconscious, and metaphorical thought. Just as the ideas of cells and DNA in biology are stable and not likely to be found to be mistakes, so we believe that there is more than enough converging evidence to establish at least these three results. Ironically, these scientific results challenge the classical philosophical view of scientific realism, a disembodied objective scientific realism that can be characterized by the following three claims:1. There is a world independent of our understanding of it.2. We can have stable knowledge of it.3. Our very concepts and forms of reason are characterized not by our bodies and brains, but by the external world in itself. It follows that scientific truths are not merely truths as we understand them, but absolute truths. Obiviously, we accept (1) and (2) and we believe that (2) applies to the three findings of cognitive science we are discussing on the basis of converging evidence. But those findings themselves contradict (3).

~ George Lakoff

Feelings that would not have disgraced a leader who, now that the snow has begun to fall and the mountain-top is covered in mist, knows that he must lay himself down and die before morning comes, stole upon him, paling the colour of his eyes, giving him, even in the two minutes of his turn on the terrace, the bleached look of withered old age. Yet he would not die lying down; he would find some crag of rock, and there, his eyes fixed on the storm, trying to the end to pierce the darkness, he would die standing. He would never reach R.

~ Virginia Woolf

The test of real and vigorous thinking, the thinking which ascertains truths instead of dreaming dreams, is successful application to practice.

~ John Stuart Mill

I tried to think outside the box but couldn't open the lid.

~ Alan Dapre

I do not know by what power I think; but well I know that I should never have thought without the assistance of my senses. That there are immaterial and intelligent substances I do not at all doubt; but that it is impossible for God to communicate the faculty of thinking to matter, I doubt very much. I revere the Eternal Power, to which it would ill become me to prescribe bounds. I affirm nothing, and am contented to believe that many things are possible than are usually thought so.

~ Voltaire

Ideas matter—and philosophy is the art of thinking about them rigorously. In my view, that should be done in as public a forum as possible.

~ Sam Harris

Most of the people will try to prove your right ideas as wrong, so share your ideas carefully or not at all.

~ Amit Kalantri

As it is, the lover of inquiry must follow his beloved wherever it may lead him.

~ Plato

Coincidences, in general, are great stumbling-blocks in the way of that class of thinkers who have been educated to know nothing of the theory of probabilities---that theory to which the most glorious objects of human research are indebted for the most glorious of illustration.

~ Edgar Allan Poe

Nothing is Lie until you get to know the truth, as nothing is false in Dream until you get to know that i'm Dreamer.

~ The Ek

Always think backwards before moving forwards

~ Benny Bellamacina

Be transparent like glass, be flexible like water, and be attractive like a magnet.

~ Debasish Mridha

Love me!Hate me!I don't care which because either way,you're still talking about me!

~ Anthony T. Hincks

People think that I'm a nice guy.The truth is that I'm so nasty that I don't allow anyone else to hate me, except myself.

~ Anthony T. Hincks

Don't hate me for being different.Just be thankful I'm not you.

~ Anthony T. Hincks

Hatred is increased by being reciprocated, and can on the other hand be destroyed by love.

~ Baruch Spinoza

When someone hates you, send them flowers.

~ Debasish Mridha

People say hate is like a poison — but they're wrong. It's like a drug. You never forget your first hit, how it seduces you with its strength and power, and takes you completely by storm. It colors your world in light and meaning, until you wonder how you ever managed to get by without it. And then, eventually, you get to a point where you can't. It takes over your life, until hating becomes your reason for living.

~ Nenia Campbell

Life is so transient, finite, and fragile that there is no time to hate anyone.

~ Debasish Mridha

We often hate others because we fail to understand them.

~ Debasish Mridha

Without virtue, it is hard to bear the results of good fortune suitably. Those who lack virtue become arrogant and wantonly aggressive when they have these other goods. They think less of everyone else, and do whatever they please. They do this because they are imitating the magnanimous person though they are not really like him.

~ Aristotle On The Megalopsychos

People will try to break you, hate you, ignore youBut if you accept them with love, nothing will touch you.

~ Debasish Mridha

Hate never can win a heart,Only love can do that.

~ Debasish Mridha

You might hate a successful person, but you can not hate a true hero.

~ Amit Kalantri

Religion is tied to the deepest feelings people have. The love that arises from that stewing pot is the sweetest and strongest, but the hate is the hottest, and the anger is the most violent.

~ Orson Scott Card

There's something immoral about abandoning your common sense in matters of social importance.

~ A.e. Samaan

Anatomy lab, in the end, becomes less a violation of the sacred and more something that interferes with happy hour, and that realization discomfits. In our rare reflective moments, we were all silently apologizing to our cadavers, not because we sensed the transgression but because we did not.

~ Paul Kalanithi

The continuing belief that the world is fundamentally just is implied in the very complaint that there has been an injustice.

~ Alain De Botton

I can never look at these apparent contradictions between the great laws of nature without a feeling of physical uneasiness which amounts to suffering. Were mankind reduced to the necessity of choosing between two parties, one of whom injures his interest, and the other his conscience, we should have nothing to hope from the future. Happily, this is not the case; and to see Aristus regain his economical superiority, as well as his moral superiority, it is sufficient to understand this consoling maxim, which is no less true from having a paradoxical appearance, “To save is to spend.

~ Frédéric Bastiat

Something is objective if it is independent of people’s opinions. If it holds or is true independently of what anybody thinks then it is objective. It is subjective if it is dependent upon people’s opinions.

~ William Lane Craig

To say that the holocaust was objectively wrong, is to say that the holocaust was wrong even though the Nazis who carried it out thought that it was right, and it would still have been wrong, even if the Nazis had won World War II and succeeded in brainwashing or exterminating everybody who disagreed with them, so that everyone in the world thought that the holocaust was right and good. To say that the holocaust was objectively wrong, means that it's wrong regardless of the outcome of World War II. The premise is that if there is no God, then moral values or duties are not objective in that sense.

~ William Lane Craig

The most popular form of atheism is a philosophy called naturalism. Naturalism is the view that science and science alone determines what exists. What exists is what our best scientific theories of the world require. If something is not required by our best scientific theories of the world, then it does not exist. But this is devastating for ethics because moral values are not required by science. Science is morally neutral. You cannot find moral values in a test tube. So it follows immediately, from the perspective of naturalism, that moral values do not really exist. They are just subjective illusions of human beings.

~ William Lane Craig

When greed transcends rationale, morality becomes irrelevant.

~ Duop Chak Wuol

...the one certain thing in life is that no one can make the truth untrue simply because it hurts.

~ David Weber

Egoism holds, therefore, is that each man's happiness is the sole good--that a number of different things are each of them the only good thing there is--an absolute contradiction! No more complete and thorough refutation of any theory could be desired.

~ G.e. Moore