“No notice is taken of a little evil, but when it increases it strikes the eye.” LittlesEyeEvilTakenIncreasePhilosophicalStrikesWickednessGood Against Evil Book:Politics Source: Politics
“Philosophical questions are not by their nature insoluble. They are, indeed, radically different from scientific questions, because they concern the implications and other interrelations of ideas, not the order of physical events; their answers are interpretations instead of factual reports, and their function is to increase not our knowledge of nature, but our understanding of what we know.” KnowsIdeasDifferentScienceOrderUnderstandingAnswersEventsConcernFunctionIncreasePhilosophicalReportsInterpretationImplicationsFactualPhilosophical Questions Author:Susanne Katherina Langer
“It is by no means certain that we advance our philosophical quest by reading Plato or Aristotle. It may increase our knowledge of history but not of the world.” WorldMayMeanCertainReadingIncreasePhilosophicalQuestsPlato Author:Jostein Gaarder
“It shows nobility to be willing to increase your debt to a man to whom you already owe much.” MenShowsWillingIncreasePhilosophicalDebtNobility Author:Marcus Tullius Cicero
“The excessive increase of anything causes a reaction in the opposite direction.” CausesOppositesIncreasePhilosophicalReactionsPlatoAction And ReactionExcessiveness Author:Plato