“The spirit of Plato dies hard. We have been unable to escape the philosophical tradition that what we can see and measure in the world is merely the superficial and imperfect representation of an underlying reality.” WorldHas BeensHardPhilosophyRealitySpiritDiesTraditionPhilosophicalImperfectRepresentationSuperficialPlato Book:The Mismeasure of Man (Revised & Expanded) Source: The Mismeasure of Man (Revised & Expanded)
“Das Ganze der Erfahrung gleicht einer Geheimschrift und die Philosophie der Entzifferung derselben. The whole of experience is like a cryptograph, and philosophy is like the deciphering of it.” PhilosophyWholeDies Author:Arthur Schopenhauer
“Only lifeless mechanisms move along faultlessly straight lines and compass circles. In art the surest way to destroy is to canonize one given form and one philosophy: that which is canonized quickly dies of obesity, of entropy.” WayInspirationalArtPhilosophyMovingFormDiesLiteratureGivenLinesCirclesMechanismCompassObesityStraight LinesEntropyLifeless Author:Yevgeny Zamyatin
“One's philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes. In stopping to think through the meaning of what I have learned, there is much that I believe intensely, much I am unsure of. In the long run, we shape our lives and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And, the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility.” ThinkingBelieveLongEndsPhilosophyRunningDiesChoicesI BelieveProcessResponsibilityOur LivesShapesLong RunsI Have LearnedStoppingUnsure Author:Eleanor Roosevelt
“I am only about half alive - a large part of my strength is consumed in sitting up or walking. My nervous system is a shattered wreck, and I am absolutely bored & listless save when I come upon something which peculiarly interests me. However - so many things do interest me, & interest me intensely, in science, history, philosophy, & literature; that I have never actually desired to die, or entertained any suicidal designs, as might be expected of one with so little kinship to the ordinary features of life.” LittlesPhilosophyMightDiesLiteratureInterestHalfAliveDesignWalkingOrdinarySittingExpectedNervousBoredFeaturesSuicidalConsumedWrecksShatteredNervous SystemKinshipSitting Up Author:H. P. Lovecraft
“I thought I was going to die a few times. On the Freedom Ride in the year 1961, when I was beaten at the Greyhound bus station in Montgomery, I thought I was going to die. On March 7th, 1965, when I was hit in the head with a night stick by a State Trooper at the foot of the Edmund Pettus Bridge, I thought I was going to die. I thought I saw death, but nothing can make me question the philosophy of nonviolence.” YearsStatesPhilosophyNightDiesSawsFeetSticksBridgesMarchStationsBusNonviolenceBeatenMontgomeryGreyhoundsGreyhound Bus Author:John Lewis
“Genuine philosophical problems are always rooted outside philosophy and they die if these roots decay.” IfsPhilosophyProblemDiesRootsPhilosophicalGenuineRootedDecay Book:Conjectures and Refutations: The Growth of Scientific Knowledge Source: Conjectures and Refutations: The Growth of Scientific Knowledge