P Quotes
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“Philosophy may be dodged, eloquence cannot.”
“Philosophy may be sometimes hard to grasp, but it is profoundly meaningful. Mudding the waters under the pretense of doing something meaningful and great is meaningless. Language is one of the best tools of expression, but also one of the best tools to deceive, manipulate, and lead others astray. It is sometimes hard to differentiate between the two and recognize the game of deceit and manipulation. It usually happens when we need to figure out our real prowess and use the language not for real communication or expression but for personal gain, academically, or in any other way that may benefit us.”
Source: ABSOLUTE
“Philosophy may describe unreasoning, as it may describe force; it cannot hope to refute them.”
Source: The Life of Reason: Human Understanding
“Philosophy may in no way interfere with the actual use of language; it can in the end only describe it.”
Source: Philosophical Investigations
“Philosophy may raise us above grandeur, but nothing can elevate us above the ennui which accompanies it.”
“Philosophy may serve as the bridge between theology and science. All atheism is a philosophy, but not all philosophy is atheism. Philosophy ('love of wisdom') is simply a tool depending on how one uses it, and in some cases, logically understanding the nature of God and existence.”
Source: Killosophy
“Philosophy means and includes five fields of study and discourse: logic, aesthetics, ethics, politics, and metaphysics.
Logic is the study of ideal method in thought and research: observation and introspection, deduction and induction, hypothesis and experiment, analysis and synthesis - such are the forms of human activity which logic tries to underhand the guide; it is a dull study for most of us, and yet the great events in the history of understand are the improvements men have made in their methods of thinking and research.
Aesthetics is the study of ideal form, or beauty; it is the philosophy of art.
Ethics is the study of ideal conduct; the highest knowledge, said Socrates, is the knowledge of good and evil, the knowledge of good and evil, the knowledge of the wisdom of life.
Politics is the study of ideal social organization (it is not, as one might suppose, the art and science of capturing and keeping office); monarchy, aristocracy, democracy, socialism, anarchism, feminisim - these are the dramatis personae of political philosophy.
And lastly, metaphysics (which gets into so much trouble because it is not, like the other forms of philosophy, an attempt to coordinate the real in the light of the ideal) is the study of the "ultimate reality" of all things: of the real and final nature of "matter" (ontology), of "mind" (philosophical psychology), and of the interrelation of "mind" and "matter" in the processes of perception and knowledge (epistemology).”
Source: The Story of Philosophy: The Lives and Opinions of the World's Greatest Philosophers
“Philosophy means liberation from the - routine, soaring above the well known, seeing it in new perspectives, arousing wonder and the wish to fly.”
“Philosophy means nothing unless it is connected to birth, death, and the continuance of life. Anytime you are going to build a society that works, you have to begin from nature and the body.”
“Philosophy means thinking things out for oneself. Ultimately, there can be only one true philosophy, since reason is one and we all live in the same world.”
“Philosophy must be neither a job nor an office; it must be a shared passion of heart and intellect. Like art.”
Source: Runot ja aforismit
“Philosophy must indeed recognize the possibility that the people rise to it, but must not lower itself to the people.”
“Philosophy must never be divorced from action. Unless it is put into practice, philosophy is nothing more than an intellectual game.”
“Philosophy must strive to establish common sense (as Thomas Reid would have liked it) as the highest model for its method. We don't want to say that every easy or comprehensible thought and argument should be the basic criteria. This only means that skepticism has limitations.”
Source: ABSOLUTE
“Philosophy of Bread
To Lenin and Iqbal:
The East treats me as a second class citizen, the West as a third class citizen still,
life is mired in fees, rents and unending bills.
New century’s children keep on breeding, farms get smaller and farmers poorer, it’s the bankruptcy mills,
bread lines get longer, the pestilence kills
whilst the few eat money and honey,
And God laughs at the future.”
Source: Postcolonial Freedom:
“Philosophy of experienced life
The world is too tough a place…
When you propose to carry it alone...it becomes too heavy to lift.
If you decide to let it...it breaks into a trouble.
If you pamper it to stay, it becomes a spoilt place to live.
When you decide to hoist it, you suddenly get crushed.
As rhetoric as it’s proven to be; the world never give back what you actually gave to it.
...the humility of life is the fate to accept the unbearable.”
“Philosophy of science is about as useful to scientists as ornithology is to birds.”
“Philosophy of science without history of science is empty; history of science without philosophy of science is blind.”
Source: Philosophical Papers
“Philosophy offers a deeper truth that no amount of data can touch”
“Philosophy only seems to offer endless dispute, with no cakes and ale.”
Source: God: A Guide for the Perplexed
“Philosophy ought to be able to give an account of rationality that is not wholly detached from science's account of nature, even if it is not straightforwardly reducible to it.”
“Philosophy ought to question the basic assumptions of the age. Thinking through, critically and carefully, what most of us take for granted is, I believe, the chief task of philosophy, and the task that makes philosophy a worthwhile activity.”
Source: Applied Ethics
“Philosophy recovers itself when it ceases to be a device for dealing with the problems of philosophers and becomes a method, cultivated by philosophers, for dealing with the problems of men.”
Source: The Middle Works, 1899-1924: 1916-1917
“Philosophy rests on a proposition that whatever is is right. Preaching begins by assuming that whatever is is wrong.”
“Philosophy seems to me on the whole a rather hopeless business.”
Source: The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell
“Philosophy serves culture, not by the fancied gift of absolute or transcendental knowledge, but by suggesting questions which help one to detect the passion, and strangeness, and dramatic contrasts of life.”
Source: The Renaissance: Studies in Art and Poetry
“Philosophy should always know that indifference is a militant thing. It batters down the walls of cities and murders the women and children amid the flames and the purloining of altar vessels. When it goes away it leaves smoking ruins, where lie citizens bayonetted through the throat. It is not a children's pastime like mere highway robbery.”
Source: Men, Women, and Boats
“Philosophy should be an energy; it should find its aim and its effect in the amelioration of mankind.”
Source: Cosette
“Philosophy should make clear and delimit sharply the thoughts which otherwise are, as it were, opaque and blurred.”
Source: Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
“Philosophy springs from the love of being; it is man's loving endeavor to perceive the order of being and attune himself to it. Gnosis desires dominion over being; in order to seize control of being the Gnostic constructs his system. The building of systems is a gnostic form of reasoning, not a philosophical one.”
Source: The Collected Works of Eric Voegelin
“Philosophy stands in need of a science which shall determine the possibility, principles, and extent of human knowledge à priori.”
“Philosophy stands in the same relation to the study of the actual world as masturbation to sexual love.”
“Philosophy still moves too much straight ahead, and is not yet cyclical enough.”
“Philosophy studies the world, but the point is to change it.”
“Philosophy takes as her aim the state of happiness...she shows us what are real and what are only apparent evils. She strips men's minds of empty thinking, bestows a greatness that is solid and administers a check to greatness where it is puffed up and all an empty show; she sees that we are left no doubt about the difference between what is great and what is bloated.”
“Philosophy teaches a man that he can't take it with him; taxes teach him he can't leave it behind either.”
Source: Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin
“Philosophy teaches how man thinks he thinks; but drinking shows how he really thinks.”
Source: A Night of Serious Drinking
“Philosophy teaches us to bear with equanimity the misfortunes of others.”
Source: Nothing...Except My Genius
“Philosophy teaches us to look at the world again. It brings out at a theoretical level what all plain, common, ordinary people, in a sense, know already.”
Source: Impossible Objects
“Philosophy teaches us to question what we often take for granted. It challenges assumptions, opens minds, and encourages reflection. By examining life from multiple angles, we discover not only the world’s complexity but also the depth of our own understanding.”
“Philosophy teaches you to think big.”
“Philosophy tends to kindness for those who intend to write it.”
“Philosophy that satisfies its own intention, and does not childishly skip behind its own history and the real one, has its lifeblood in the resistance against the common practices of today and what they serve, against the justification of what happens to be the case.”
Source: Critical Models: Interventions and Catchwords
“Philosophy, though unable to tell us with certainty what is the true answer to the doubts which it raises, is able to suggest many possibilities which enlarge our thoughts and free them from the tyranny of custom. Thus, while diminishing our feeling of certainty as to what things are, it greatly increases our knowledge as to what they may be; it removes the somewhat arrogant dogmatism of those who have never traveled into the region of liberating doubt, and it keeps alive our sense of wonder by showing familiar things in an unfamiliar aspect.”
Source: The Problems of Philosophy
“Philosophy treats of physics where a more careful knowledge is required because the problems which come under this head are numerous... So the reader of Ctesibius or Archimedes and the other writers of treatises of the same class will not be able to appreciate them unless he has been trained in these subjects by the philosophers.”
“Philosophy triumphs easily over past evils and future evils, but present evils triumph over it.”
“Philosophy unravels the knots in our thinking; hence its results must be simple, but its activity is as complicated as the knots that it unravels.”
Source: Philosophical Occasions, 1912-1951
“Philosophy used to be a field that had content, but then natural philosophy became physics, and physics has only continued to make inroads. Every time theres a leap in physics, it encroaches on these areas that philosophers have carefully sequestered away to themselves, and so then you have this natural resentment on the part of philosophers.”
“Philosophy wasn't about facts, it was about ideas. My first essay title was something like: 'How can you know what other people are thinking?' I thought, 'Wow, what an amazing thing.' I really thought deeply for the first time.”
“Philosophy when superficially studied, excites doubt, when thoroughly explored, it dispels it.”