“Science remains the author of our major problem, in its gift of tremendous power that has been terribly abused; but for the wise use of this power we need more, not less, of the objective dispassionate scientific spirit. For our philosophical purposes we need more of its integrity and its basic humility, its respect at once for the fact and the mystery.” NeedsHas BeensFactsUseProblemSpiritPurposeWiseMysteryAtheismHumilityIntegrityMajorsPhilosophicalRemainsPositive AtheismObjectivesMajor ProblemsDispassionate Author:Herbert J. Muller
“Recognizing that we have the kind of blood we have because we have the kind of kidneys we have, we must acknowledge that our kidneys constitute the major foundation of our philosophical freedom. Only because they work the way they do has it become possible for us to have bones, muscles, glands and brains. Superficially, it might be said that the function of the kidney is to make urine; but in a more considered view one can say that the kidneys make the stuff of philosophy itself.” WayKindSaidPhilosophyMightStuffViewsBrainBloodMajorsFunctionPhilosophicalFoundationBonesAcknowledgeMusclesRecognizingKidneysGlands Author:Homer Smith
“My ex-wife was a philosophy major at NYU. Yeah, she and I used to have deep philosophical discussions where she would prove that I didn't exist.” PhilosophyUsedWifeProveMajorsPhilosophicalYeahDiscussionExesEx WifeNyuDeep Philosophical Author:Woody Allen
“I can be a bit of a science geek. I tend more towards reading about brain science, neuroscience. I was an English major, so I love discussing possibilities and alternate theories. Aside from the science aspect of it, the philosophical possibilities are so interesting.” I CanReadingBitsInterestingBrainPossibilityTheoryMajorsAspectPhilosophicalNeuroscienceGeekDiscussingEnglish MajorBrain Science Author:William Mapother
“Before the 3rd century you're having several philosophical schools still as a going concern. You have not only the Platonists and the Aristotelians but you have Scepticism, you have Stoicism, you even have a little bit of Epicureanism. And what happens after Plotinus is that everybody becomes a Neo-Platonist. So if we then go forward to the Islamic world for example, Plotinus is immensely influential, and Neo-Platonism becomes at least one major component of mainstream Islamic philosophy as well.” IfsWorldWellsLittlesStillsPhilosophyHappensSchoolBitsCenturyExampleMajorsLittle BitConcernPhilosophicalIslamicMainstreamStoicismComponentsInfluentialScepticismEpicureanism Author:Peter Adamson
“Despite all philosophical differences, all major world religions have the same potential to create good human beings.” WorldInspirationalHumansDifferencesHuman BeingsMajorsPhilosophicalDespiteWorld ReligionsGood Human Being Author:Dalai Lama
“This is a major, wide-ranging, and comprehensive book. A philosophical investigation that is also a literary and historical study, Truth and Truthfulness asks how and why we have come to think of accuracy, sincerity, and authenticity as virtues. Bernard Williams' account of their emergence is as detailed and imaginative as his defense of their importance is spirited and provocative. Williams asks hard questions, and gives them straightforward and controversial answers. His book does not simply describe and advocate these virtues of truthfulness; it manifests them.” ThinkingGivingDoeBookHardAsksAnswersVirtueStudyMajorsAccountsImportancePhilosophicalHistoricalWideDefenseAuthenticitySincerityInvestigationImaginativeComprehensiveControversialStraightforwardAccuracyTruthfulnessProvocativeEmergenceSpiritedHard Questions Author:Alexander Nehamas
“I love to revel in philosophical matters-especially astronomy. I study astronomy more than any other foolishness there is. I am a perfect slave to it. I am at it all the time. I have got more smoked glass than clothes. I am as familiar with the stars as the comets are. I know all the facts and figures and have all the knowledge there is concerning them. I yelp astronomy like a sun-dog, and paw the constellations like Ursa Major.” KnowsMatterFactsStarsSpacePerfectSunStudyDogFiguresMajorsClothesPhilosophicalSlaveGlassesAstronomyFamiliarFoolishnessConstellationsStar GazingPawsComets Book:The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain Source: The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain
“Some major writers have a huge impact, like Ayn Rand, who to my mind is a lousy fiction writer because her writing has no compassion and virtually no humor. She has a philosophical and economical message that she is passing off as fiction, but it really isn't fiction at all.” WritingMindHumorFictionCompassionHugeMajorsMessagesPhilosophicalImpactPassingPassingsFiction WritersNo Compassion Author:Theodore Sturgeon