It is the man of science, eager to have his every opinion regenerated, his every idea rationalized, by drinking at the fountain of fact, and devoting all the energies of his life to the cult of truth, not as he understands it, but as he does not yet understand it, that ought properly to be called a philosopher.
It is my bad luck that this has happened to me.’ No, you should rather say: ‘It is my good luck that, although this has happened to me, I can bear it without pain, neither crushed by the present nor fearful of the future.’ Because such a thing could have happened to any man, but not every man could have borne it without pain. So why see more misfortune in the event than good fortune in your ability to bear it?
Things that seem morally obvious and intuitive now weren’t necessarily so in the past; many started with nonconforming reasoning.
When faith in our freedom gives way to fear of our freedom, silencing the minority view becomes the operative protocol.
Do you mean that you think you can find out the answer to it? said the March Hare.Exactly so, said Alice.Then you should say what you mean, the March Hare went on.I do, Alice hastily replied; at least–at least I mean what I say–that’s the same thing, you know.You might just as well say, added the Dormouse, which seemed to be talking in its sleep, that ‘I breathewhen I sleep’ is the same thing as ‘I sleep when I breathe!
He who looks the higher is the more highly distinguished, and turning over the great book of nature (which is the proper object of philosophy) is the way to elevate one’s gaze.
Dua kebaikan yang berbeda tidak mungkin berada pada satu intensitas yang sama. Sesederhana itu.
Beginning to think is beginning to be undermined. Society has but little connection with such beginnings. The worm is in man’s heart. That is where it must be sought. One must follow and understand this fatal game that leads from lucidity in the face of existence to flight from light.
There’s no longer a monolithic evil empire somewhere, spreading a different philosophy of life. That doesn’t exist.
We must strive to encourage East and West not only to move towards each other but also to encourage them to find a new philosophy, a philosophy which will serve as a tool determining the future of Planet Earth – our common and only shelter.
I’m working harder than ever now, and I’m putting on my pants the same as I always have. I just get up every day and try to do a little better than the day before, and that is to run a great restaurant with great food, great wine, and great service. That’s my philosophy.
All I’m trying to say is that if you’re not willing to observe this, if you’re just going to condemn it, you’re never going to see it. It’s there, whether you like it or not. This is stupid life-force we’re dealing with here, he said. Think how old it is, Jim. Think how huge it is. Understanding it doesn’t make any difference.
Unfortunately, religion often works to shrink and tame the very wild and mysterious forces that first drew our wonder. In the process of making the inexplicable safe for the masses, the possibilities for real illusion-piercing insight becomes reduced. One might say that they are only available to those who dare to ride the breaking crest of direct life-altering experience.
I long for the slightest evidence of it that doesn’t require me to relinquish reason, because a natural mystery and reason to face it make the happiest combination of all.
Should philosophy guide experiments, or should experiments guide philosophy?
Let philosophy resolutely aim to be as scientific as possible, but let her not forget her strong kinship with literature.
No one has ever properly understood me, I have never fully understood anyone; and no one understands anyone else
Philosophy has to be enquiring; it can take nothing on faith, and its methods are based not on the blind acceptance of authority, but on establishing truths by reason and argument.
Before this moment, I have never wished to be something other than what I am. Never felt so keenly the lack of hands with which to touch, the lack of arms with which to hold.Why did they give me this sense of self? Why allow me the intellect by which to measure this complete inadequacy? I would rather be numb than stand here in the light of a sun that can never chase the chill away
We breathe for the sake of breathing, eat and drink for the sake of eating and drinking, we take shelter for the sake of taking shelter, we study to satisfy our curiosity, we take a walk for the walk. All that’s not for the sake of living, it is living. Life is a sincerity.
I don’t know why everyone feels the pressure to look young. Personally, I hate it. I don’t want to inject Botox and look young forever. It’s living in denial and anything that has an undercurrent of this philosophy is bad for your growth.
It is an acknowledged truth in philosophy that a just theory will always be confirmed by experiment.
Whether a thought is spoken or not it is a real thing and it has power, Tuek said. You might find the line between life and death among the Fremen to be too sharp and quick.
Everything starts with writing. And then to support your vision, your ideas, your philosophy, your jokes, whatever, you’ve gotta perform them and/or direct them, or sometimes just produce them.
Consciousness is a mystery that faces the mystery of potential and transforms it into actuality. We do that with every choice we make. Our choices determine the destiny of the world. By making a choice, you alter the structure of reality.
Tapi Tuhan juga seperti punya jatah waktu yang boleh kita habiskanberdua. Sia-sia bertahan, sia-sia melawan.
Absurdity is one of the most human things about us: a manifestation of our most advanced and interesting characteristics.
Mankind is made of two kinds of people: wise people who know they’re fools, and fools who think they are wise.
Culture had worked in her own case, but during the last few weeks she had doubted whether it humanized the majority, so wide and so widening is the gulf that stretches between the natural and the philosophic man, so many the good chaps who are wrecked in trying to cross it.
I remember when I was a freshman in college, I was still somewhat bothered by… worried… about religion. I remember going to this professor of philosophy and telling him that I had lost my faith.
One has only as much morality as one has philosophy and poetry.
Most of us try to do too much because we are secretly afraid we will not be able to do anything at all.
Trebuie sa te departezi putin de tine ca sa te poti apropia de ceilalti.
I don’t think there is any philosophy that suggests having polio is a good thing.
The rich fop Francis of Assisi was bored all his life―until he fell in love with Christ and gave all his stuff away and became the troubadour of Lady Poverty.
I make music that I know that people will enjoy, and balance the ideas and philosophy that we put in music with music that when we play it live, people can move to it and groove to it.
When a youth was giving himself airs in the Theatre and saying, ‘I am wise, for I have conversed with many wise men,’ Epictetus replied, ‘I too have conversed with many rich men, yet I am not rich!’.
On ne peut opposer absraitement le spectacle et l’activité sociale effective.
Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try!
A miracle is often the willingness to see the common in an uncommon way.
As a designer, when someone wears my clothes, the biggest compliment I can receive is that the woman looks amazing because my designs have flattered her, not taken over her. I take that philosophy to heart myself each morning when I am getting ready for the day.
Molecules dissolve and pass away, but consciousness survives the death of the matter on which it rides.
My reason for preferring the darkness is that in the dark you have to describe yourself. In the daylight other people describe you.
No man is crushed by misfortune unless he has first been deceived by prosperity
Violence is spiritual junk food, and boredom is spiritual anorexia.
To all appearances he was just drifting. In actuality he was just drifting.
Tolerating organized crime promotes the cheap philosophy that everything is a racket. It promotes cynicism among adults. It contributes to the confusion of the young and to the increase of juvenile delinquency.
For any given problem, if there’s a simple solution it will already have been applied. So, perhaps, the solution isn’t as simple as you think.
Of Equality–as if it harm’d me, giving others the same chances and rights as myself–as if it were not indispensable to my own rights that others possess the same.
The Encyclopedia–the advance artillery of reason, the armada of philosophy, the siege engine of the enlightenment…
To see a world in a grain of sand and heaven in a wild flower, hold infinity in the palm of your hand and eternity in an hour.
Because each of you has his or her own death, you carry it with you in a secret place from the moment you’re born, it belongs to you and you belong to it.
We join spokes together in a wheel, but it is the center hole that makes the wagon move.We shape clay into a pot, but it is the emptiness insidethat holds whatever we want.We hammer wood for a house, but it is the inner spacethat makes it livable.We work with being, but non-being is what we use.
I have a genuine philosophy. I do not want to make negative pictures about people, and so I do everything I can to help make them feel comfortable in front of the camera. That is what is going to control your picture, because you are alone if your subject is not with you. And that’s the simple answer to getting a good picture.
It is remarkable how long men will believe in the bottomlessness of a pond without taking the trouble to sound it.
I never could read Foucault. I find philosophy tedious. All of my knowledge comes from reading novels and some history. I read Being and Nothingness and realized that I remembered absolutely nothing when I finished it. I used to go to the library every day and read every day for eight hours. I’d dropped out of high school and had to teach myself. I read Sartre without any background. I just forced myself and I learned nothing.
The best portion of a good man’s life: his little, nameless unremembered acts of kindness and love.
Let’s say I have a mystical soul and a rational brain, and, like Montaigne, I am incapable of choosing between them. I don’t know if I believe in God, but I am often tempted to believe.
Philosophy is the critically reflective, systematically articulated attempt to illumine our human experience in depth and set it in a vision of the whole.
Pursue not the outer entanglements; Dwell not in the inner void; Be serene in the oneness of things; And dualism vanishes by itself.
If you don’t want anyone to know about your existence, you might as well kill yourself. You’re taking up space, air.
A breeze, a forgotten summer, a smile, all can fit into a storefront window.