Quotes and Sayings About Philosophical
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The traditional disputes of philosophers are, for the most part, as unwarranted as they are unfruitful. The surest way to end them is to establish beyond question what should be the purpose and method of a philosophical enquiry. And this is by no means so difficult a task as the history of philosophy would lead one to suppose. For if there are any questions which science leaves it to philosophy to answer, a straightforward process of elimination must lead to their discovery.
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That's an interesting philosophical question. When your boner goes away, is that one gone... forever?
-- Adam Carolla -
The greatness of Christianity did not lie in attempted negotiations for compromise with any similar philosophical opinions in the ancient world, but in its inexorable fanaticism in preaching and fighting for its own doctrine.
-- Adolf Hitler -
Let us say in passing that since (philosophical) remedies are often worse than the malady, our age, in order to be cured of the Plato sickness, has swallowed such doses of a relativist, vaguely skeptical, lightly spiritualist and insipidly moralist medicine, that it is in the process of gently dying, in the small bed of its supposed democratic comfort.
-- Alain Badiou -
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I've taken a philosophical position on e-mail. Although I think it's a wonderful communication technology, and it has a lot of good uses, it is abused quite a lot.
-- Alan Lightman -
There is but one truly serious philosophical problem and that is suicide.
-- Albert Camus -
The most important thing you do everyday you live is deciding not to kill yourself.
-- Albert Camus -
One of the only coherent philosophical positions is thus revolt. It is a constant confrontation between man and his own obscurity.
-- Albert Camus -
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He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.
-- Albert Einstein -
When I study philosophical works I feel I am swallowing something which I don't have in my mouth.
-- Albert Einstein -
Think occasionally of the suffering of which you spare yourself the sight.
-- Albert Schweitzer -
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The thinking (person) must oppose all cruel customs, no matter how deeply rooted in tradition and surrounded by a halo. When we have a choice, we must avoid bringing torment and injury into the life of another.
-- Albert Schweitzer -
We need a boundless ethics which will include animals also.
-- Albert Schweitzer -
It is inconceivable to me that an ethical relation to land can exist without love, respect, and admiration for land, and a high regard for its value. By value, I of course mean something far broader than mere economic value; I mean value in the philosophical sense.
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Henry's universe was modeled on the highball. It was a mixture in which half a pint of the fizziest philosophical and scientific ideas all but drowned a small jigger of immediate experience, most of it strictly sexual. Broken reeds are seldom good mixers. They're far too busy with their ideas, their sensuality and their psychosomatic complaints to be able to take an interest in other people - even their own wives and children. They live in a state of the most profound voluntary ignorance, not knowing anything about anybody, but abounding in preconceived opinions about everything.
-- Aldous Huxley -
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I slept with faith and found a corpse in my arms on awakening; I drank and danced all night with doubt and found her a virgin in the morning.
-- Aleister CrowleySource : "The Book of Lies". Book by Aleister Crowley, 1913.
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Men and women are not free to love decently until they have analyzed themselves completely and swept away every mystery from sex; and this means the acquisition of a profound philosophical theory based on wide reading of anthropology and enlightened practice.
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One day, someone showed me a glass of water that was half full. And he said, "Is it half full or half empty?" So I drank the water. No more problem.
-- Alejandro Jodorowsky -
Our new government is founded upon exactly the opposite idea; its foundations are laid, its corner- stone rests, upon the great truth that the negro is not equal to the white man; that slavery subordination to the superior race is his natural and normal condition. This, our new government, is the first, in the history of the world, based upon this great physical, philosophical, and moral truth.
-- Alexander H. StephensSource : Alexander H. Stephens' “Corner Stone” Speech, teachingamericanhistory.org. March 21, 1861.
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This is a major, wide-ranging, and comprehensive book. A philosophical investigation that is also a literary and historical study, Truth and Truthfulness asks how and why we have come to think of accuracy, sincerity, and authenticity as virtues. Bernard Williams' account of their emergence is as detailed and imaginative as his defense of their importance is spirited and provocative. Williams asks hard questions, and gives them straightforward and controversial answers. His book does not simply describe and advocate these virtues of truthfulness; it manifests them.
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The map is not the territory.
-- Alfred KorzybskiSource : Science and Sanity (1933).
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So many worlds, so much to do, so little done, such things to be.
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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 -
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The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato.
-- Alfred North Whitehead -
In everything, there is a share of everything
-- AnaxagorasSource : Anaxagoras, Patricia Curd (2007). “Anaxagoras of Clazomenae: Fragments and Testimonia : a Text and Translation with Notes and Essays”, p.54, University of Toronto Press
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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 -
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A myth is far truer than a history, for a history only gives a story of the shadows, whereas a myth gives a story of the substances that cast the shadows.
-- Annie BesantSource : Annie Besant (2016). “Esoteric Christianity”, p.92, BookRix
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Thinking in terms of risk certainly has its unsettling aspects (...), but it is also a means of seeking to stabilise outcomes, a mode of colonising the future. The more or less constant, profound and rapid momentum of change characteristic of modern institutions, coupled with structured reflexivity, mean that on the level of everyday practice as well as philosophical [Seitenwechsel] interpretation, nothing can be taken for granted. What is acceptable/appropriate/recommended behaviour today may be seen differently tomorrow in the light of altered circumstances or incoming knowledge-claims.
-- Anthony Giddens