Philosophical Quotes - Page 20

• The profoundest thoughts of the philosophers have something trickle about them. A lot disappears in order for something to suddenly appear in the palm of the hand.

  Elias Canetti

  Hands, Order, Literature

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• Science is a human activity, and the best way to understand it is to understand the individual human beings who practise it. Science is an art form and not a philosophical method. The great advances in science usually result from new tools rather than from new doctrines. ... Every time we introduce a new tool, it always leads to new and unexpected discoveries, because Nature's imagination is richer than ours.

  Freeman Dyson

  Nature, Art, Philosophy

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• 'Thou shalt not kill' does not apply to murder of one's own kind only, but to all living beings and this commandment was inscribed in the human breast long before it was proclaimed from Sinai.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Compassion, Animal, Vegetarianism

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• The study of the human brain and its disease remains one of the greatest scientific and philosophical challenges ever undertaken.

  Floyd E. Bloom

  Challenges, Brain, Disease

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• Buddhism is a hundred times as realistic as Christianity it is part of its living heritage that it is able to face problems objectively and coolly; it is the product of long centuries of philosophical speculation.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Buddhism, Long, Heritage

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2016). “The Antichrist”, p.47, Friederich Nietzsche

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• In my opinion a mathematician, in so far as he is a mathematician, need not preoccupy himself with philosophy-an opinion, moreover, which has been expressed by many philosophers.

  Henri Lebesgue

  Philosophy, Math, Science

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• Indiana Jones: Archaeology is the search for fact... not truth. If it's truth you're looking for, Dr. Tyree's philosophy class is right down the hall. ... So forget any ideas you've got about lost cities, exotic travel, and digging up the world. We do not follow maps to buried treasure, and "X" never, ever marks the spot. Seventy percent of all archaeology is done in the library. Research. Reading.

  Jeffrey Boam

  Philosophy, Reading, Science

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• The traditional disputes of philosophers are, for the most part, as unwarranted as they are unfruitful.

  A.J. Ayer

  Philosopher, Disputes, Traditional

  "Language, Truth, and Logic" by A.J. Ayer, (Ch. 1), 1936.

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• It is undesirable to believe a proposition when there is no ground whatever for supposing it true

  Bertrand Russell

  Atheist, Philosophy, Believe

  Sceptical Essays (1928) "On the Value of Scepticism"

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• Happiness is the highest good

  Aristotle

  Inspirational, Highest

  Aristotle (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Aristotle (Illustrated)”, p.3126, Delphi Classics

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• Man is condemned to be free

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Freedom, Philosophy, Men

  1946 L'Existentialisme est un humanisme (Existentialism and Humanism,1948) (translated by Philip Mairet).

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• Happiness lies in virtuous activity, and perfect happiness lies in the best activity, which is contemplative

  Aristotle

  Lying, Perfect, Virtuous

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• Virtue is nothing else than right reason

  Seneca the Younger

  Virtue, Reason

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• We are too weak to discover the truth by reason alone

  Saint Augustine

  Reason, Weak

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• It is the privilege of true genius, And especially genius who opens up a new path, To make great mistakes with impunity

  Lewis Carroll

  Mistake, Genius, Path

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• We never know we are beings till we love. And then it is we know the powers and potentialities of human existence.

  Jean Toomer

  Philosophy, Existence, Humans

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• While there is such a thing as correctness in ethics, in interpretation, in mathematics, the way to understand that is not by trying to model it on the ways in which we get things right in physics.

  Hilary Putnam

  Trying, Way, Ethics

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• One can defend common sense against the attacks of philosophers only by solving their puzzles, i.e., by curing them of the temptation to attack common sense.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Common Sense, Temptation, Philosopher

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• ...if there is a widely shared concept of intentional action... a philosophical analysis of intentional action that is wholly unconstrained by that concept runs the risk of having nothing more than a philosophical fiction as its subject matter.

  Alfred Mele

  Running, Risk, Fiction

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• Now I do not myself share that superstitious reverence for the beliefs of common sense which many contemporary philosophers profess. But I think that we must start from them, and that we ought to depart from them only when we find good reason to do so.

  C. D. Broad

  Thinking, Common Sense, Philosopher

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• As so often happens in philosophy, clever people accept a false general principle on a priori grounds and then devote endless labour and ingenuity to explaining away plain facts which obviously conflict with it.

  C. D. Broad

  Clever, Philosophy, People

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• When a man is proud because he can understand and explain the writings of Chrysippus, say to yourself, 'if Chrysippus had not written obscurely, this man would have had nothing to be proud of.'

  Epictetus

  Writing, Men, Proud

  Epictetus (2009). “The Enchiridion, or Handbook: With A Selection from the Discourses of Epictetus”, p.247, The Floating Press

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• If, like Hume, I had all manner of adornment in my power, I would still have reservations about using them. It is true that some readers will be scared off by dryness. But isn't it necessary to scare off some if in their case the matter would end up in bad hands?

  Immanuel Kant

  Hands, Scare, Matter

  Immanuel Kant (2005). “Notes and Fragments”, p.207, Cambridge University Press

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• Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Laughter, Wrath, Doe

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2009). “Basic Writings of Nietzsche”, p.422, Modern Library

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• It is only a man's own fundamental thoughts that have truth and life in them.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Men, Discarded, Truth And Life

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “Essays of Schopenhauer”, p.83, Sheba Blake Publishing

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