Philosophy Quotes

the matter is as it is in all other cases: if it is naturally in you to be a good orator, a notable orator you will be when you have acquired knowledge and practice ...

~ Plato

Speech has both an individual and a social side, and we cannot conceive of one without the other.

~ Ferdinand De Saussure

the theorem of incompleteness . . . [shows] there is nothing on this level of existence that can fully explain this level of existence.

~ Pat Cadigan

Proofs are to mathematics what spelling (or even calligraphy) is to poetry. Mathematical works do consist of proofs, just as poems do consist of words.

~ V.i. Arnold

Therefor I doubt not but, if it had been a thing contrary to any man’s right of dominion, or to the interest of men that have dominion, ‘that the three angles of a triangle should be equal to two angles of a square,’ that doctrine should have been, if not disputed, yet by the burning of all books of geometry suppressed, as far as he whom it concerned was able.

~ Thomas Hobbes

Philosophers and psychiatrists should explain why it is that we mathematicians are in the habit of systematically erasing our footsteps. Scientists have always looked askance at this strange habit of mathematicians, which has changed little from Pythagoras to our day.

~ Gian-Carlo Rota

The physical method becomes a philosophy when it asserts there is no higher knowledge than the empirical knowledge of scientific phenomena. The mathematical method becomes a philosophy when it asserts that some higher knowledge is needed to explain scientific facts, and that higher knowledge is mathematics.

~ Fulton J. Sheen

If you blend in, you don't stand out.

~ Anthony T. Hincks

How can I be myself, when others expect me to be someone else?

~ Anthony T. Hincks

I enjoy being a lemming,we line up to do everything together.

~ Anthony T. Hincks

All too often it's easier to be someone else than just being yourself.

~ Anthony T. Hincks

Don't like me for what I am.Just like me for who I am.

~ Anthony T. Hincks

No permanence is ours; we are a waveThat flows to fit whatever form it finds:Through day or night, cathedral or caveWe pass forever, craving form that binds.

~ Hermann Hesse

Why do people kill others just like them with such ferocity simply because they worship a different god? What harm were they doing? People suffer in these wars and dozens, hundreds, thousands, millions even lose their lives. Whatever happened to the survival instinct? One could just about understand the violent battle for wealth or territory but how are we supposed to understand the battle for a belief?

~ Vadim Zeland

You can convert this human system into absolute receptivity, where you can perceive life in ways that you have never believed possible. If you keep all your ideas, emotions and your nonsense aside, maybe you can take a step, move one inch. One little step existentially is worth more than all the scriptures that you can read on the planet. One little step is far more important than all the philosophies that you can spout.

~ Sadhguru

Share your love, share your happiness; you will be rich and a great success.

~ Debasish Mridha

Every heart, it have its own ache.

~ Lynn Cullen

We don't want to give people straight answers. We'd rather they question things for themselves.

~ Deborah Curtis

SOLVE BY RESOLVE -Use lessons learned from failed attempts to reinforce commitment

~ Kamil Ali

To be whole is to be part,true voyage is return.

~ Hafiz

My darling I still love you,no matter that you're gone.You'll always be with me,forever and ever more.

~ Anthony T Hincks

If we had the chance to live forever, life would lose its charm for something better.

~ Debasish Mridha

When you're asked to stay out of a bar you don't just punch the owner--you come back with your army and tear the place down, destroy the whole edifice and everything it stands for. No compromise. If a man gets wise, mash his face. If a woman snubs you, rape her. This is the thinking, if not the reality, behind the whole Hell's Angels act.

~ Hunter S. Thompson

Today’s temple of truth will become the prison of tomorrow.

~ William Meader

A person who always finds something wrong is most likely thinking wrong.

~ Debasish Mridha

All of his (Nanak's) progressive thinking attained absolution at the age of 30, when he had the transcendental experience, quite similar to that of Mohammed and Joan of Arc, that was about to rock the very foundation of orthodox Hinduism in India.

~ Abhijit Naskar

The idea of Plato that philosophers must be the rulers and directors of society is practiced in India.

~ Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan

The greatest skeptic must now admit that the land and sea-borne trade of India had given her a world-wide fame not only for her gold, spices and silk, but for her religions and philosophies also.

~ Virchand Gandhi

Hume hummed in his head. Reason versus passion- David versus Goliath. Let the Goliath win for one last time. But the world is full of the Davids, the begging bastards, passing of their defeat as a win over the favorites. Why the world sides with the under-doggies. A favorite is nobody's favorite, but one's one. As if he has to pay a toll tax for his tolls.

~ Aporva Kala

The contrast between genetic and environmental, between nature and nurture, is not a contrast between fixed and changeable. It is a fallacy of biological determinism to say that if differences are in the genes, no change can occur.

~ Richard C. Lewontin

In the ensuing chapters, we will look in some detail at particular manifestations of the modern scientific ideology and the false paths down which it has led us. We will consider how biological determinism has been used to explain and justify inequalities within and between societies and to claim that those inequalities can never be changed. We will see how a theory of human nature has been developed using Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection to claim that social organization is also unchangeable because it is natural. We will see how problems of health and disease have been located within the individual so that the individual becomes a problem for society to cope with rather than society becoming a problem for the individual. And we will see how simple economic relationships masquerading as facts of nature can drive the entire direction of biological research and technology.

~ Richard C. Lewontin

Death can ride the wind,and he can also walk the streets,looking for those listed,or those he accidently meets.A touch or a whisper,the smell of his breath,it's what lets us know,he beckons that we're next.And hide he doth find,in a closet or a chest,because our days were numbered,'cause death doesn't jest.

~ Anthony T Hincks

If you have hung yourself out to dry, it means that you are still wet behind the ears.

~ Anthony T.hincks

Be yourself!What harm can it do?

~ Anthony T Hincks

If you want to be unique.Just be yourself.

~ Anthony T. Hincks

To connect is to dissolve the imaginary pyramids of artificial privilege.

~ Stefan Molyneux

The greatest gift you can ever give is yourself.

~ Michelle Templet

My aim is not to be consistent with my previous statements on a given question, but to be consistent with truth as it may present itself to me at a given moment. The result has been that I have grown from truth to truth.

~ Mahatma Gandhi

The word 'inauthentic' is used by Heidegger to describe the ostrich-like attitude of the man who seeks to escape from his inescapable self-responsibility by becoming an anonymous member of a crowd. This is the normal attitude of nearly everybody. To be 'authentic' a man must be constantly and deliberately aware of his total responsibility for what he is. For example, a judge may disclaim personal responsibility for sentencing people to punishment. He will say that as a judge it is his duty to punish. In other words it is as an anonymous representative of the Judiciary that he punishes, and it is the Judiciary that must take the responsibility. This man is inauthentic. If he wishes to be authentic he must think to himself, whenever he sits on the Bench or draws his salary, 'Why do I punish? Because, as a judge, it is my duty to punish. Why am I a judge? Is it perhaps my duty to be a judge? No. I am a judge because I myself choose to be a judge. I choose to be one who punishes in the name of the Law. Can I, if I really wish, choose not to be a judge? Yes, I am absolutely free at any moment to stop being a judge, if I so choose. If this is so, when a guilty man comes up before me for sentence, do I have any alternative but to punish him? Yes, I can get up, walk out of the courtroom, and resign my job. Then if, instead, I punish him, am I responsible? I am totally responsible.

~ Nanavira Thera

lose weight, eat backwards.

~ Benny Bellamacina