Philosophy Quotes - Page 8

• Let children read whatever they want and then talk about it with them. If parents and kids can talk together, we won't have as much censorship because we won't have as much fear.

  Judy Blume

  Children, Freedom, Kids

  FaceBook post by Judy Blume from Apr 16, 2013

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• I don't know anything that gives me greater pleasure, or profit either, than talking or listening to philosophy. But when it comes to ordinary conversation, such as the stuff you talk about financiers and the money market, well, I find it pretty tiresome personally, and I feel sorry that my friends should think they're being very busy when they're really doing absolutely nothing. Of course, I know your idea of me: you think I'm just a poor unfortunate, and I shouldn't wonder if your right. But then I dont THINK that you're unfortunate - I know you are.

  Plato

  Sorry, Thinking, Talking

  Plato (2013). “Plato - Dialogues”, p.29, Read Books Ltd

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  Nihilism has no substance. There is no such thing as nothingness, and zero does not exist. Everything is something. Nothing is nothing.

  Victor Hugo

  Zero, Nihilism, Doe

  Victor Hugo (1980). “Les misérables”, Viking Pr

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• The business of philosophy is to circumnavigate human nature.

  Julius Charles Hare

  Human Nature, Humans

  Julius Charles Hare, Augustus William Hare (1861). “Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers: From the Fifth London Ed”, p.434

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• There is nothing so absurd or ridiculous that has not at some time been said by some philosopher. Fontenelle says he would undertake to persuade the whole public of readers to believe that the sun was neither the cause of light or heat, if he could only get six philosophers on his side.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Believe, Science, Light

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• And this activity alone would seem to be loved for its own sake; for nothing arises from it apart from the contemplating, while from practical activities we gain more or less apart from the action. And happiness is thought to depend on leisure; for we are busy that we may have leisure, and make war that we may live in peace.

  Aristotle

  War, May, Sake

  Aristotle, Aeterna Press (2015). “Nicomachean Ethics”, p.209, Aeterna Press

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• Philosophy cannot raise the commonalty up to her level: so, if she is to become popular, she must sink to theirs.

  Augustus William Hare

  Levels, Raises, Ifs

  Augustus William Hare (1827). “Guesses at Truth”, p.295

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• Art has no need of philosophical arguments, it does not follow the signposts of philosophical systems; Art like life, dictates systems to philosophy.

  Naum Gabo

  Art, Philosophical, Doe

  Naum Gabo (2000). “Gabo on Gabo: Texts and Interviews”

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• Those sciences which govern the morals of mankind, such as Theology and Philosophy, make everything their concern: no activity is so private or so secret as to escape their attention or their jurisdiction.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Secret, Attention, Ethics

  Michel de Montaigne (1991). “The essays of Michel de Montaigne”, Lane, Allen

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• We often have need of a profound philosophy to restore to our feelings their original state of innocence, to find our way out of the rubble of things alien to us, to begin to feel for ourselves and to speak ourselves, and I might almost say to exist ourselves.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Science, Profound, Feelings

  "Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook B 49, 1799.

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• Philosophy is the replacement of category-habits by category-disciplines.

  Gilbert Ryle

  Discipline, Replacements, Habit

  'The Concept of Mind' (1949) introduction

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• Philosophers should be, as Seneca put it, 'lawyers for humanity'. Make what you think and feel count; the examined life has global dimensions.

  Martha C. Nussbaum

  Thinking, Humanity, Dimensions

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• Get the hell out of my way!

  Ayn Rand

  Strength, Courage, Military

  Ayn Rand (2011). “Ayn Rand Novel Collection”, p.2340, Penguin

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  If all mankind minus one were of one opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind.

  John Stuart Mill

  Freedom, Differences, Expression

  On Liberty ch. 2 (1859)

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• My philosophy of life is that if we make up our mind what we are going to make of our lives, then work hard toward that goal, we never lose - somehow we win out.

  Ronald Reagan

  Inspirational, Motivational, Leadership

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• Some are slaves of ambition or money, but others are interested in understanding life itself. These give themselves the name of philosophers , and they value the contemplation and discovery of nature beyond all other pursuits.

  Pythagoras

  Ambition, Discovery, Names

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• The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Motivational, Education, School

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• You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts.

  Khalil Gibran

  Spiritual, Thought Provoking, Listening

  Khalil Gibran (2014). “The Prophet - Der Prophet”, p.96, Lulu.com

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• Without philosophy man cannot know what he makes; without religion he cannot know why.

  Eric Gill

  Men, Knows

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• Experience has repeatedly confirmed that well-known maxim of Bacon's that 'a little philosophy inclineth a man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion.' At the same time, when Bacon penned that sage epigram... he forgot to add that the God to whom depth in philosophy brings back men's minds is far from being the same from whom a little philosophy estranges them.

  George Santayana

  God, Men, Mind

  George Santayana (1954). “The Life of Reason ; Or, The Phases of Human Progress. One-volume Ed”

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• To be or not to be?' That is not the question. What is the question? The question is not one of being, but of becoming. 'To become more or not to become more' This is the question faced by each intelligence in our universe.

  Truman G. Madsen

  Intelligence, Becoming, Meaning Of Life

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• Philosophy will clip an angel's wings.

  John Keats

  Angel, Wings, Literature

  'Lamia' (1820) pt. 2, l. 229

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• Philosophy begins in wonder. And, at the end, when philosophic thought has done its best, the wonder remains.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Done, Wonder, Ends

  Alfred North Whitehead (1968). “Modes of Thought”, p.168, Simon and Schuster

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• There is superficial conflict but deep concord between science and theistic religion, but superficial concord and deep conflict between science and naturalism

  Alvin Plantinga

  Science, Agreement, Religion

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• I think we ought always to entertain our opinions with some measure of doubt. I shouldn't wish people dogmatically to believe any philosophy, not even mine.

  Bertrand Russell

  Inspirational, Believe, Thinking

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