“There are no philosophical problems, there is only a suite of interconnected linguistic cul de sacs created by language's inability to reflect the truth.” ProblemLanguagePhilosophicalInabilityInterconnected Author:Victor Pelevin
“What you believe matters, however. It’s all anyone has to act on. And since what you do is who you are, your actions define you. If you don’t believe anything is true simply because you can’t logically prove what’s true, you won’t do anything. You won’t be anything. You’ll end up spending your life in a rocking chair looking out at the horizon waiting for an answer that never comes. You might as well be dead. It’s an old philosophical problem.” IfsBelieveWellsEndsMatterProblemMightActionWaitingAnswersProvePhilosophicalWho You AreDon't BelieveSpendingChairsHorizonTrue YouDefine YouRocking Chairs Author:Russell Banks
“Eventually, Aristotle appeared among the Greeks. He improved the methods of logic and systematized its problems and details. He assigned to logic its proper place as the first philosophical discipline and the introduction to philosophy. Therefore he is called the First Teacher.” FirstsPhilosophyProblemTeacherDisciplineLogicPhilosophicalMethodDetailsGreekIntroduction Author:Ibn Khaldun
“The message that 'love' will solve all of our problems is repeated incessantly in contemporary culture - like a philosophical tom tom. It would be closer to the truth to say that love is a contagious and virulent disease which leaves a victim in a state of near imbecility, paralysis, profound melancholia, and sometimes culminates in death.” LoveSometimesStatesProblemWould BeCultureLove IsDiseaseMessagesPhilosophicalVictimProfoundSolveContemporaryTomsContagiousParalysisIncessantlyImbecility Author:Quentin Crisp
“People who have cut their teeth on philosophical problems of rationality, knowledge, perception, free will and other minds are well placed to think better about problems of evidence, decision making, responsibility and ethics that life throws up.” PeopleThinkingMindWellsProblemDecisionResponsibilityCuttingPerceptionEthicsEvidencePhilosophicalTeethDecision MakingFree WillRationality Author:Simon Blackburn