Philosophical Quotes - Page 35

• I believe there is no philosophical high-road in science, with epistemological signposts. No, we are in a jungle and find our way by trial and error, building our road behind us as we proceed.

  Max Born

  Philosophy, Believe, Science

  "Experiment and Theory in Physics" by Max Born, (p. 44), 1943.

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• See how many are better off than you are, but consider how many are worse.

  Seneca the Younger

  Thanksgiving, Gratitude, Better Off

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

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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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• Too fair to worship, too divine to love.

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

  Worship, Divine, Fairs

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• "Historians of every generation, I believe, unless they are pure antiquarians, see history against the background - the controlling background - of current events. They call upon it to explain the problems of their own time, to give to those problems a philosophical context, a continuum in which they may be reduced to proportion and perhaps made intelligible."

  Hugh Redwald Trevor-Roper

  Believe, History, Giving

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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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• He who is filled with love is filled with God himself.

  Saint Augustine

  Love, God, Spiritual

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• Money is human happiness in the abstract.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Money, Riches, Wealth

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2013). “Religion From the Essays of Arhur Schopenhauer”, p.54, Simon and Schuster

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• Laughter... the most civilized music in the world.

  Peter Ustinov

  Laughter, World, Civilized

  Dear Me (1977) ch. 3

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• We now possess four principles of morality: 1) a philosophical: do good for its own sake, out of respect for the law; 2) a religious: do good because it is God's will, out of love of God; 3) a human: do good because it will promote your happiness, out of self-love; 4) a political: do good because it will promote the welfare of the society of which you are a part, out of love of society having regard to yourself. But is this not all one single principle, only viewed from different sides?

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Religious, Character, Self

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• We have really, that I know of, no philosophical basis for high and low. Moreover, the vegetable kingdom does not culminate, as the animal kingdom does. It is not a kingdom, but a common-wealth; a democracy, and therefore puzzling and unaccountable from the former point of view.

  Asa Gray

  Science, Animal, Views

  Asa Gray (1973). “Letters of Asa Gray”

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• In my work I now have the comfortable feeling that I am so to speak on my own ground and territory and almost certainly not competing in an anxious race and that I shall not suddenly read in the literature that someone else had done it all long ago. It is really at this point that the pleasure of research begins, when one is, so to speak, alone with nature and no longer worries about human opinions, views and demands. To put it in a way that is more learned than clear: the philological aspect drops out and only the philosophical remains.

  Heinrich Hertz

  Nature, Hard Work, Science

  "Heinrich Hertz: Classical Physicist, Modern Philosopher". Book by Davis Baird, R.I.G. Hughes and Alfred Nordmann, 1998.

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• Humility is the most difficult of all virtues to achieve; nothing dies harder than the desire to think well of self.

  T. S. Eliot

  Humility, Thinking, Self

  "Shakespeare and the Stoicism of Seneca" (1927)

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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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• Light troubles speak; the weighty are struck dumb.

  Seneca the Younger

  Stupid, Adversity, Light

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

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• For greed, all nature is too little.

  Seneca the Younger

  Nature, Greed, Littles

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

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• Liberty consists in doing what one desires.

  John Stuart Mill

  Desire, Liberty, Libertarian

  On Liberty ch. 5 (1859)

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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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• Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart's desire; the other is to get it.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Life, Wisdom, Heart

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• Football is the ballet of the masses.

  Dmitri Shostakovich

  Soccer, Football, Ballet

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