Philosophical Quotes - Page 24

• A lot of people see doubt as legitimate philosophical posture. They think of themselves in the middle, whereas of course really, they're nowhere.

  John le Carre

  Thinking, People, Doubt

  John le Carre (2002). “The Honourable Schoolboy”, p.115, Simon and Schuster

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• I believe that my theory is correct; for whatever be the question upon which I am arguing, whether it be religious, philosophical, political, or economical; whether it affects well-being, morality, equality, right, justice, progress, responsibility, property, labor, exchange, capital, wages, taxes, population, credit, or Government; at whatever point of the scientific horizon I start from, I invariably come to the same thing—the solution of the social problem is in liberty.

  Frederic Bastiat

  Religious, Believe, Responsibility

  Frederic Bastiat (2017). “The Law”, p.39, Lulu.com

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• They lived freely among the students, they argued with the men over philosophical, sociological and artistic matters, they were just as good as the men themselves: only better, since they were women.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Men, Matter, Students

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.3689, Delphi Classics

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• Coffee makes us severe, and grave and philosophical.

  Jonathan Swift

  Coffee, Espresso, Cups

  Jonathan Swift, Thomas Roscoe (1843). “The Works of Jonathan Swift ...: Containing Interesting and Valuable Papers, Not Hitherto Published ... With Memoir of the Author”, p.55

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• The real problems of our planet are not economic or technical, they are philosophical. The philosophy of unbridled materialism is being challenged by events.

  E. F. Schumacher

  Philosophy, Real, Events

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• There are more things to alarm us than to harm us, and we suffer more often in apprehension than reality.

  Seneca the Younger

  Inspirational, Life, Happiness

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

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• True happiness is...to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.

  Seneca the Younger

  Inspirational, Motivational, Happiness

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

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• A man's as miserable as he thinks he is.

  Seneca the Younger

  Happiness, Happy, Men

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

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• One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.

  Seneca the Younger

  Friendship, Beautiful, Loyalty

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

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• Where fear is, happiness is not.

  Seneca the Younger

  Inspirational, Motivational, Happiness

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

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• Someone who knows too much finds it hard not to lie.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Lying, Knowledge, Too Much

  "Culture and Value" by Ludwig Wittgenstein, translated by Peter Winch, (64e), 1980.

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• It should not be believed that all beings exist for the sake of the existence of man. On the contrary, all the other beings too have been intended for their own sakes and not for the sake of anything else.

  Maimonides

  Nature, Animal, Men

  Moses Maimonides (2010). “The Guide of the Perplexed”, p.452, University of Chicago Press

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• Scientific evidence for God's existence is being claimed today by theists, many of whom carry respectable scientific or philosophical credentials. He who is neither a she nor an it supposedly answers prayers and otherwise dramatically affects the outcome of events. If these consequences are as significant as believers say, then the effects should be detectable in properly controlled experiments.

  Victor J. Stenger

  Prayer, Religion, Atheism

  Victor J. Stenger (2003). “Has Science Found God?: The Latest Results in the Search for Purpose in the Universe”, Pyr Books

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• The ancient Greeks did not have to wrestle with the philosophical problem of the existence of evil. They did not claim their gods were good, just magnificent.

  Margaret Visser

  Evil, Greek, Religion

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• Truth is a torch but a tremendous one. That is why we hurry past it, shielding our eyes, indeed, in fear of getting burned.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Truth, Fear, Lying

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1963). “Goethe's world view: presented in his reflections and maxims”

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• Experience praises the most happy the one who made the most people happy.

  Karl Marx

  Life, Happiness, People

  Karl Marx, Loyd David Easton, Kurt H. Guddat (1997). “Writings of the Young Marx on Philosophy and Society”, p.39, Hackett Publishing

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• You cannot step into the same river twice.

  Heraclitus

  Inspirational, Change, Rivers

  Heraclitus (2003). “Fragments”, p.97, Penguin

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• He that does good to another does good also to himself.

  Seneca the Younger

  Teamwork, Kindness, Doe

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

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• Male and female have the power to fuse into one solid, both because both are nourished in both and also because soul is the same thing in all living creatures, although the body of each is different.

  Hippocrates

  Inspiring, Animal, Vegetarianism

  "Hippocrates".

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• All art is but imitation of nature.

  Seneca the Younger

  Art, Garden, Imitation

  "Moral Letters to Lucilius (Letter LXV)". Book by Seneca the Younger, 1917.

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• Tell me what gives a man or woman their greatest pleasure and I'll tell you their philosophy of life.

  Dale Carnegie

  Philosophy, Men, Giving

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• Existentialism is about being a saint without God; being your own hero, without all the sanction and support of religion or society.

  Anita Brookner

  God, Hero, Support

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• And indeed nothing but the most determined scepticism, along with a great degree of indolence, can justify this aversion to metaphysics. For if truth be at all within the reach of human capacity, it is certain it must lie very deep and abstruse: and to hope we shall arrive at it without pains, while the greatest geniuses have failed with the utmost pains, must certainly be esteemed sufficiently vain and presumptuous. I pretend to no such advantage in the philosophy I am going to unfold, and would esteem it a strong presumption against it, were it so very easy and obvious.

  David Hume

  Strong, Pain, Philosophy

  David Hume (1874). “A Treatise on Human Nature: Being an Attempt to Introduce the Experimental Method of Reasoning Into Moral Subjects; and Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion”, p.306

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• Philosophy attempts, not to discover new truths about the world, but to gain a clear view of what we already know and believe about it. That depends upon attaining a more explicit grasp of the structure of our thoughts; and that in turn on discovering how to give a systematic account of the working of language, the medium in which we express our thoughts.

  Michael Dummett

  Philosophy, Believe, Views

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• ...it is absurd to try to confine our knowledge and belief to matters which are conclusively established by sound deductive arguments. The demand for certainty will inevitably be disappointed, leaving skepticism in command of almost every issue.

  J. L. Mackie

  Issues, Leaving, Trying

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