P Quotes
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“Philosophy finds it an easy matter to vanquish past and future evils, but the present are commonly too hard for it.”
“Philosophy finds itself to be no longer anything but the heir to a fabulous mystical theology, but missing a God and wiping the slate clean.”
“Philosophy finds talkativeness a disease very difficult and hard to cure. For its remedy, conversation, requires hearers: but talkative people hear nobody, for they are ever prating. And the first evil this inability to keep silence produces is an inability to listen.”
Source: Plutarch's Complete Works
“Philosophy first constructs a scheme of happiness and then tries to fit the world to it.”
Source: Philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche
“Philosophy for me is essentially atheistic. Now that's an anxious atheism. It's an atheism that is anxious because it inhabits questions that were resolved religiously in the pre-modern period.”
“Philosophy fulfills the need to create for ourselves a single and complete concept of the world and of life.”
“Philosophy gets its ugly head into everything, but I don't think we live philosophy anymore. It's done.”
“Philosophy gets on my nerves. If we analyze the ultimate ground of everything, then everything finally falls into nothingness. But I have decided to resume my lectures again and look the Hydra of doubt straight into the eye, and it be quite ominous if one values one's life.”
“Philosophy goes no further than probabilities, and in every assertion keeps a doubt in reserve.”
“Philosophy had instructed Julian to compare the advantages of action and retirement; but the elevation of his birth and the accidents of his life never allowed him the freedom of choice. He might perhaps sincerely have preferred the groves of the Academy and the society of Athens; but he was constrained, at first by the will, and afterwards by the injustice of Constantius, to expose his person and fame to the dangers of Imperial greatness; and to make himself accountable to the world and to posterity for the happiness of millions.”
Source: THE HISTORY OF THE DECLINE AND FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE (All 6 Volumes): From the Height of the Roman Empire, the Age of Trajan and the Antonines - to the Fall of Byzantium; Including a Review of the Crusades, and the State of Rome during the Middle Ages
“Philosophy had supplied Socrates with convictions in which he had been able to have rational, as opposed to hysterical, confidence when faced with disapproval.”
“Philosophy has a fine saying for everything.-For Death it has an entire set.”
Source: Tristram Shandy
“Philosophy has a great sort of appeal in terms of an artistic or aesthetic organization of concepts. It's a conceptual art.”
“Philosophy has degenerated into ideology.”
“Philosophy has forgotten about children”
Source: The Reader
“Philosophy has its bugbears, as well as superstition.”
Source: Egeria: Or Voices of Thought and Counsel, for the Woods and Wayside
“Philosophy has never been anything but a disavowal of the reality principle. Up until now, it has been the business of philosophers. Today this unreality has entered into things. This then is the end of philosophy and the beginning of something else in which reality merges with its ironic refraction.”
Source: Cool memories
“Philosophy has no end in view save truth; faith looks for nothing but obedience and piety.”
“Philosophy has often attempted to repress insolence by asserting that all conditions are leveled by death; a position which, however it may defect the happy, will seldom afford much comfort to the wretched.”
Source: The Wisdom of the Rambler, Adventurer, and Idler
“Philosophy has the curious characteristic that, although itself entrapped, locked inside the glasshouse of our constitution and our language, it is nevertheless able constantly to think beyond itself and its limits, to think itself through the walls of its glasshouse. And this thinking beyond itself, into openess – that, precisely, is metaphysics.”
Source: Metaphysics: Concept and Problems
“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.”
“Philosophy hasn't made any progress? - If somebody scratches the spot where he has an itch, do we have to see some progress? Isn't genuine scratching otherwise, or genuine itching itching? And can't this reaction to an irritation continue in the same way for a long time before a cure for the itching is discovered?”
“Philosophy, in its simplest form, is the exploration of the beauty and ugliness of life.”
“Philosophy insists that there is a joy which is absolute, which never changes.”
Source: Jnana Yoga: The Yoga of Knowledge
“Philosophy is "an unusually stubborn attempt to think clearly.”
“Philosophy is a bad master for poetry; religion worse; and politics self-serving will never serve the Muse.”
“Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language.”
Source: A companion to Wittgenstein's
“Philosophy is a bully that talks loud when the danger is at a distant; but, the moment she is pressed hard by an enemy, she is nowhere to be found and leaves the brunt of the battle to be fought by her steady, humble comrade, religion.”
“Philosophy is a corrective against sadness. Yet there still are people who believe in the profundity of philosophy!”
“Philosophy is a goddess, whose head indeed is in heaven, but whose feet are upon earth; she attempts more than she accomplishes, and promises more than she performs.”
Source: Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think
“Philosophy is a hallow bone with no flesh on it”
“Philosophy is a kind of journey, ever learning yet never arriving at the ideal perfection of truth.”
Source: Morals and Dogma : Scottish Rite in Freemasonry
“Philosophy is a more intense sort of experience than common life is, just as pure and subtle music, heard in retirement, is something keener and more intense than the howling of storms or the rumble of cities.”
Source: Little essays drawn from the writings of George Santayana
“Philosophy is a necessary activity because we, all of us, take a great number of things for granted, and many of these assumptions are of a philosophical character; we act on them in private life, in politics, in our work, and in every other sphere of our lives -- but while some of these assumptions are no doubt true, it is likely, that more are false and some are harmful. So the critical examination of our presuppositions -- which is a philosophical activity -- is morally as well as intellectually important.”
“Philosophy is a proud, sullen detector of the poverty and misery of man. It may turn him from the world with a proud, sturdy contempt; but it cannot come forward and say, here are rest, grace, pardon, peace, strength, and consolation.”
“Philosophy is a root of science. Science is a branch of a philosophical tree.”
“Philosophy is a slow process of logic and logical discourse: A bringing B bringing C and so forth. In mysticism you can jump from A to Z. But the ultimate objective is the same. It's knowledge. It's truth.”
Source: Elie Wiesel: Conversations
“Philosophy is a state of fermentation a process without final outcome.”
“Philosophy is about getting the facts right, but it is also about thinking rightly about them. Philosophy is more about the latter than the former.”
“Philosophy is an act of living.”
“Philosophy is an amazing tissue of really fine thinking and incredible, puerile mistakes. It's like one of those rubber 'bones' they give dogs to chew, damned good for the mind's teeth, but as food - no bloody good at all.”
Source: Odd John and Sirius
“Philosophy is an attempt by man to find cause and effect. Religion has the same goal”
“Philosophy is an elegant thing, if anyone modestly meddles with it; but if they are conversant with it more than is becoming, it corrupts them.”
“Philosophy is an infertile hybrid. Life is a prolific hermaphrodite.”
“Philosophy is an odd thing. When we use the word in everyday speech, you know, you sometimes hear it hilariously.”
“Philosophy is an odd thing... There is no particular Socratic or Dimechian or Kantian way to live your life. They don't offer ethical codes and standards by which to live your life.”
“Philosophy is an unusually ingenious attempt to think fallaciously.”
Source: A Fresh Look at Empiricism: 1927-42
“Philosophy is antipoetic. Philosophize about mankind and you brush aside individual uniqueness, which a poet cannot do without self-damage. Unless, for a start, he has a strong personal rhythm to vary his metrics, he is nothing. Poets mistrust philosophy. They know that once the heads are counted, each owner of a head loses his personal identify and becomes a number in some government scheme: if not as a slave or serf, at least as a party to the device of majority voting, which smothers personal views.”
Source: Some speculations on literature, history, and religion
“Philosophy is as far separated from impiety as religion is from fanaticism.”
“Philosophy is at its most engaged when it is impure. What is being recovered from the Ancient Greek model is not some lost idea of philosophy's pure essence, but the idea that philosophy is mixed up with everything else.”