“The learned compute that seven hundred and seven millions of millions of vibrations have penetrated the eye before the eye can distinguish the tints of a violet. What philosophy can calculate the vibrations of the heart before it can distinguish the colours of love?” LoveHeartPhilosophyEyeMillionsHundredSevenColourVioletVibrations Author:Bill Vaughan
“One novel in five hundred or a thousand has the quality a novel should have to make it a novel -- the quality of philosophy.” ShouldPhilosophyQualityNovelFiveThousandHundredShould HaveGolden Notebook Book:The Golden Notebook Source: The Golden Notebook
“As a Roman philosopher, Cicero, said of him a few hundred years later, Socrates 'called philosophy down from the sky and established her in the towns and introduced her into homes and forced her to investigate life, ethics, good and evil.” YearsSaidPhilosophyHomeEvilSkyEthicsHundredTownsPhilosopherGood And EvilRoman Philosophers Author:Jostein Gaarder
“The most wounding insult to an educated Russian was to be called nekulturny-uncultured-yet the same men who sat in the gilt boxes at the Moscow State Opera weeping at the end of a performance of Boris Gudunov could immediately turn around and order the execution or imprisonment of a hundred men without blinking. A strange people, made more strange by their political philosophy.” PeopleMenMadeEndsStatesPhilosophyPoliticalOrderTurnsStrangeHundredPerformancesBoxesEducatedSatInsultOperaExecutionWeepingPolitical PhilosophyImprisonmentMoscow Author:Tom Clancy
“For a very long time science and philosophy were considered part of the same continuum and it was only within the last few hundred years they've been considered different areas of inquiry, and now we're starting to go back to the idea that maybe they aren't two separate realms of inquiry.” YearsLongTwoIdeasDifferentPhilosophyLastsLong TimeHundredAreasStartingRealmsInquiryContinuumScience And Philosophy Author:Brad Warner
“To get married and have a family, is to grow up and mature. It's the only way. You can read philosophy books for a hundred years, but if you don't get married and have a family you will never get it. They soften you and shape you, mature you. Absolutely.” IfsWayYearsBookPhilosophyGrowsGrowing UpShapesMarriedHundredMature Author:Richard Matheson
“I had four hundred thousand pages of continental philosophy and lit theory in my head. And by God, I was going to use it to prove to him that I was smarter than he was.” PhilosophyUseFourTheoryThousandProvePagesHundredSmarterLitContinental Author:David Foster Wallace