Philosophical Quotes - Page 19

• If you don't want to be in an argument with someone, it is probably best to try to solve the problem, rather than lying around hoping the other person will do it for you.

  E. Lockhart

  Lying, Trying, Want

  "The Boy Book". Book by E. Lockhart, 2006.

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• There is no such thing as philosophy-free science, just science that has been conducted without any consideration of its underlying philosophical assumptions.

  Daniel Dennett

  Honesty, Integrity, Philosophy

  Daniel C. Dennett (2014). “Intuition Pumps And Other Tools for Thinking”, p.20, W. W. Norton & Company

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• I have loved to the point of madness; That which is called madness, That which to me, Is the only sensible way to love.

  Francoise Sagan

  Love, Philosophy, Criminal Mind

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• May be is very well, but Must is the master. It is my duty to show justice without recompense.

  Seneca the Younger

  Justice, May, Masters

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Football is the ballet of the masses.

  Dmitri Shostakovich

  Soccer, Football, Ballet

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• Understanding is nothing else than conception caused by speech.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Understanding, Speech, Conception

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• We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.

  Seneca the Elder

  Inspirational, Hurt, Fear

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• It is better of course to know useless things than to know nothing.

  Tom Stoppard

  Knowledge, Useless Things, Useless Stuff

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  He who learns but does not think, is lost. He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger.

  Confucius

  Education, Giving Up, Knowledge

  Confucius (1998). “论语”

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• There is a noble manner of being poor, and who does not know it will never be rich.

  Seneca the Younger

  Doe, Noble, Poverty

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• In masks outrageous and austere The years go by in single file; But none has merited my fear, And none has quite escaped my smile.

  Elinor Wylie

  Life, Smile, Years

  Elinor Wylie, Evelyn Helmick Hively (2005). “Selected Works of Elinor Wylie”, p.42, Kent State University Press

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• It is not races but individuals that are noble and courageous or ignoble and craven or considerate or persistent or philosophical or reasonable. The race gets credit when the percentage of noble individuals is high.

  Edwin Way Teale

  Race, Class, Noble

  Edwin Way Teale (1987). “Circle of the seasons: the journal of a naturalist's year”, Olympic Marketing Corp

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• In a philosophical dispute, he gains most who is defeated, since he learns most.

  Epicurus

  Philosophy, Gains, Defeated

  Epicurus (1964). “Letters: Principles Doctrines, and Vatican Sayings Translated, with an Introd. and Notes, by Russel M. Geor. Indianapolis Merrill”

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• Pretend what we may, the whole man within us is at work when we form our philosophical opinions.

  William James

  Philosophy, Men, May

  William James (2015). “Essays in Popular Philosophy: Top Essays”, p.61, 谷月社

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• Philosophy is at once the most sublime and the most trivial of human pursuits.

  William James

  Philosophy, Sublime, Pursuit

  William James, Frederick Burkhardt, Fredson Bowers, Ignas K. Skrupskelis (1979). “Some Problems of Philosophy”, p.199, Harvard University Press

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• One farmer says to me, "You cannot live on vegetable food solely, for it furnishes nothing to make the bones with;" and so he religiously devotes a part of his day to supplying himself with the raw material of bones; walking all the while he talks behind his oxen, which, with vegetable-made bones, jerk him and his lumbering plow along in spite of every obstacle.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Animal, Oxen, Vegetarianism

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• No evil propensity of the human heart is so powerful that it may not be subdued by discipline.

  Seneca the Elder

  Inspirational, Powerful, Heart

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• Consider a man riding a bicycle. Whoever he is, we can say three things about him. We know he got on the bicycle and started to move. We know that at some point he will stop and get off. Most important of all, we know that if at any point between the beginning and the end of his journey he stops moving and does not get off the bicycle he will fall off it. That is a metaphor for the journey through life of any living thing, and I think of any society of living things.

  William Golding

  Life, Moving, Fall

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• When you are laboring for others, let it be with the same zeal as if it were for yourself.

  Confucius

  Zealous, Zeal, Ifs

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• Very little of the great cruelty shown by men can really be attributed to cruel instinct. Most of it comes from thoughtlessness or inherited habit. The roots of cruelty, therefore, are not so much strong as widespread. But the time must come when inhumanity protected by custom and thoughtlessness will succumb before humanity championed by thought. Let us work that this time may come.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Strong, Animal, Men

  "Memoirs of Childhood and Youth". Book by Albert Schweitzer, 1924.

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• Necessity, the mother of invention.

  George Farquhar

  Mother, Motherhood, Invention

  "The Twin Rivals". Book by George Farquhar, 1702.

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• Philosophy is regarded by many as inseparable from speculation. ... Philosophy has proceeded from speculation to science.

  Hans Reichenbach

  Philosophy, Science, Inseparable

  Hans Reichenbach (1973). “The Rise of Scientific Philosophy”, p.7, Univ of California Press

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• How then did we come to the "standard model"? And how has it supplanted other theories, like the steady state model? It is a tribute to the essential objectivity of modern astrophysics that this consensus has been brought about, not by shifts in philosophical preference or by the influence of astrophysical mandarins, but by the pressure of empirical data.

  Steven Weinberg

  Philosophy, Science, Objectivity

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• Mathematics has a threefold purpose. It must provide an instrument for the study of nature. But this is not all: it has a philosophical purpose, and, I daresay, an aesthetic purpose.

  Henri Poincare

  Nature, Science, Purpose

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• I also ask you my friends not to condemn me entirely to the mill of mathematical calculations, and allow me time for philosophical speculations, my only pleasures.

  Johannes Kepler

  Philosophy, Science, Pleasure

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