Philosophy Quotes - Page 35

• I have read somewhere or other, - in Dionysius of Halicarnassus, I think, - that history is philosophy teaching by examples.

  Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke

  Teaching, Thinking, Historical

  "Letters on the study and use of history" by Henry St. John Bolingbroke, (letter 2), 1752.

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• A philosophy of the history of the human race, worthy of its name, must begin with the heavens and descend to the earth, must be charged with the conviction that all existence is one-a single conception sustained from beginning to end upon one identical law.

  Friedrich Ratzel

  Law, Names, Race

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• Great steps in human progress are made by things that don't work the way philosophy thought they should. If things always worked the way they should, you could write the history of the world from now on. But they don't, and it is those deviations from the normal that make human progress.

  Charles Kettering

  Writing, Science, Historical

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• History abhors determinism but cannot tolerate chance.

  Bernard DeVoto

  Art, History, Historical

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• I am not a pessimist but a pejorist (as George Eliot said she was not an optimist but a meliorist); and that philosophy is founded on my observation of the world, not on anything so trivial and irrelevant as personal history.

  A. E. Housman

  Historical, Personal History, World

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• My philosophy is to take one day at a time. I don't worry about the future. Tomorrow is even out of sight for me.

  Bobby Darin

  Sight, Worry, One Day At A Time

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• My whole philosophy in survival is to take down brush as soon as you get in a situation.

  Joe Teti

  Survival, Brushes, Situation

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• The things that matter in this country have been reduced in choice, there are two political parties, there are a handful insurance companies, there are six or seven information centers.. but if you want a bagel there are 23 flavors. Because you have the illusion of choice!

  George Carlin

  Country, Party, Two

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• When fascism comes to America, it will not be in brown and black shirts. It will not be with jack-boots. It will be Nike sneakers and Smiley shirts. Germany lost the Second World War. Fascism won it. Believe me, my friend.

  George Carlin

  Nike, War, Believe

  "Real Time" with Bill Maher, September 9, 2005.

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• Our philosophy has been to be fiscally conservative, so we can be operationally aggressive. We're not using borrowed money to grow. So we'll put up a store just to get there before the competition. If it doesn't work, we'll close it and lose a little equity. It won't kill us.

  Wayne Huizenga

  Money, Competition, Littles

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• That's kind of what we have here. I think we've just grown apart, we have different philosophies, and we're going in different directions.

  Lance Burton

  Thinking, Different, Kind

  "'Dance Crew' winners land weekly Vegas show". www.hollywoodreporter.com. September 7, 2010.

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• I don't really have a life philosophy; my thing is just rebelling against pretty much organized religion. That is my main thing, because personally I think it's a crutch for people that are too weak to get through life on their own. I'm the kind of guy that says if I don't see it, then it doesn't work. And nobody can show me God.

  Kerry King

  Thinking, People, Guy

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• I have not been able to discover the cause of those properties of gravity from phenomena, and I frame no hypotheses; for whatever is not deduced from the phenomena is to be called a hypothesis, and hypotheses, whether metaphysical or physical, whether of occult qualities or mechanical, have no place in experimental philosophy.

  Isaac Newton

  Science, Quality, Able

  Letter to Robert Hooke, 5 Feb. 1676

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• Philosophy itself cannot but benefit from our disputes, for if our conceptions prove true, new achievements will be made; if false, their refutation will further confirm the original doctrines.

  Galileo Galilei

  Thinking, Achievement, Doctrine

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• The Greek word for philosopher (philosophos) connotes a distinction from sophos. It signifies the lover of wisdom (knowledge) as distinguished from him who considers himself wise in the possession of knowledge. This meaning of the word still endures: the essence of philosophy is not the possession of the truth but the search for truth. ... Philosophy means to be on the way. Its questions are more essential than its answers, and every answer becomes a new question.

  Karl Jaspers

  Wise, Mean, Essence

  "Way to Wisdom: An Introduction to Philosophy". Book by Karl Jaspers, 1951.

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• Philosophy can only be approached with the most concrete comprehension.

  Karl Jaspers

  Taxi, Concrete, Comprehension

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• But I think that of all the literature that I studied, the book that did more than any other to fire my enthusiasm was The Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey published by his wife.

  Kwame Nkrumah

  Book, Fire, Literature

  "The Autobiography of: Kwame Nkrumah".

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• For those who want to understand the issues of the environmental crisis, Encounters with the Archdruid is a superb book. McPhee reveals more nuances of the value revolution that dominates the new age of ecology than most writers could pack into a volume twice as long. I marvel at his capacity to listen intently and extract the essence of a man and his philosophy in the fewest possible words.

  Stewart Udall

  Book, Men, Essence

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• The phenomenological world is not the bringing to explicit expression of a pre-existing being, but the laying down of being. Philosophy is not the reflection of a pre-existing truth, but, like art, the act of bringing truth into being.

  Maurice Merleau-Ponty

  Art, Reflection, Expression

  Maurice Merleau-Ponty (1962). “Phenomenology of Perception”, p.19, Psychology Press

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• Philosophy as science, as serious, rigorous, indeed apodictically rigorous science -- the dream is over.

  Edmund Husserl

  Dream, Serious

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• What philosophy worthy of the name has truly been able to avoid the link between poem and theorem?

  Michel Serres

  Names, Links, Able

  Michel Serres, Bruno Latour (1995). “Conversations on Science, Culture, and Time”, p.34, University of Michigan Press

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• The only philosophy is that of language, the only religion is that of the word.

  Michel Serres

  Language

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• There is no perfect knowledge which can be entitled ours, that is innate; none but what has been obtained from experience, or derived in some way from our senses.

  William Harvey

  Medicine, Perfect, Soma

  William Gilbert, Galileo Galilei, William Harvey (1984). “The Selected writings of William Gilbert, Galileo Galilei, William Harvey ; illustrated by Marc Yankus”

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• Most of these feminists are radical, frustrated lesbians, many of them, and man-haters, and failures in their relationships with men, and who have declared war on the male gender. The biblical condemnation of feminism has to do with its radical philosophy and goals. That's the bottom line.

  Jerry Falwell

  War, Biblical, Men

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• For what reason then do the realists show themselves so unfriendly toward philosophy? Because they misunderstand their own calling and with all their might want to remain restricted instead of becoming unrestricted! Why do they hate abstractions? Because they themselves are abstract since they abstract from the perfection of themselves, from the elevation of redeeming truth!

  Max Stirner

  Hate, Perfection, Calling

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