“Like many students, I found the drudgery of real experiments and the slowness of progress a complete shock, and at my low points I contemplated other alternative careers including study of the philosophy or sociology of science.” RealPhilosophyFoundCareersStudyProgressStudentsLowsIncludingExperimentsAlternativesShockSociologyDrudgerySlownessSociologicalLow Points Author:Paul Nurse
“As the Republican Party has moved farther and farther to the right, I have found myself increasingly at odds with the Republican philosophy and more in line with the philosophy of the Democratic Party.” PhilosophyFoundLinesPartyRepublicanMovedDemocraticOddsRepublican PartyDemocratic Party Author:Arlen Specter
“Faith marches at the head of the army of progress. -It is found beside the most refined life, the freest government, the profoundest philosophy, the noblest poetry, the purest humanity.” PhilosophyGovernmentFaithHumanityFoundProgressArmyMarchRefined Author:Theodore T. Munger
“More and more it seems to me that the philosopher, being of necessity a man of tomorrow and the day after tomorrow, has always found himself, and had to find himself, in contradiction to his today: his enemy was ever the ideal of today. So far all these extraordinary furtherers of men whom one calls philosophers, though they themselves have rarely felt like friends of wisdom but rather like disagreeable fools and dangerous question marks, have found their task, their hard, unwanted, inescapable task, but eventually also the greatness of their task, in being the bad conscience of their time.” MenHardPhilosophySeemsTodayFoundFeltEnemyDangerousGreatnessFoolTomorrowConscienceIdealsTasksMarkExtraordinaryPhilosopherContradictionDisagreeableUnwantedQuestion Mark Author:Friedrich Nietzsche
“Each of the parts of philosophy is a philosophical whole, a circle rounded and complete in itself. In each of these parts, however, the philosophical Idea is found in a particular specificality or medium. The single circle, because it is a real totality, bursts through the limits imposed by its special medium, and gives rise to a wider circle. The whole of philosophy in this way resembles a circle of circles. The Idea appears in each single circle, but, at the same time, the whole Idea is constituted by the system of these peculiar phases, and each is a necessary member of the organisation.” WayGivingIdeasRealPhilosophyWholeFoundSpecialParticularLimitsMembersPhilosophicalCirclesMediumsPeculiarPhasesOrganisationTotality Author:Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
“I have heard a good story of Charles Fox. When his house was on fire, he found all efforts to save it useless, and, being a good draughtsman, he went up to the next hill to make a drawing of the fire,--the best instance of philosophy I ever heard of.” PhilosophyStoriesNextFoundHouseEffortFireHeardDrawingInstanceHillsUselessFoxesGood StoryResignation Author:Robert Southey
“I read The Conspiracy Against the Human Race and found it incredibly powerful writing. For me as a reader, it was less impactful as philosophy than as one writers ultimate confessional: an absolute horror story, where the self is the monster.” WritingHumansSelfPhilosophyStoriesFoundPowerfulRaceReaderHorrorUltimateAbsolutesMonstersHuman RaceConspiracyHorror Stories Author:Nic Pizzolatto
“I come from the philosophy of: "Whatever happens to me is the greatest thing that could happen, no matter what." Sometimes in the moment I have a regret, but then I have found myself every time down the line saying to myself: "I wouldn't be here if it weren't for that so called failure."” IfsSometimesMatterPhilosophyMomentsHappensFoundLinesRegretNo Matter WhatWhatever Happens Author:Jim Carrey
“The result of civilization, at the Sandwich Islands and elsewhere, is found productive to the civilizers, destructive to the civilizees. It is said to be compensation--a very philosophical word; but it appears to be very much on the principle of the old game, "You lose, I win": good philosophy for the winner.” SaidPhilosophyFoundGamesWinningLosesResultsPrinciplesCivilizationPhilosophicalWinnerIslandsDestructiveProductiveElsewhereColonialismCompensationSandwichesGood Philosophy Author:Herman Melville
“Leisure, the highest happiness upon earth, is seldom enjoyed with perfect satisfaction, except in solitude. Indolence and indifference do not always afford leisure; for true leisure is frequently found in that interval of relaxation which divides a painful duty from an agreeable recreation; a toilsome business from the more agreeable occupations of literature and philosophy.” PhilosophyEarthFoundLiteraturePerfectDutySolitudeHighestPainfulSatisfactionEnjoyedIndifferenceOccupationDividesLeisureRelaxationRecreationIntervalsIndolence Author:Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann
“The idea of discussing psychological and philosophical ideas in a visual medium was really exciting to me. I thought I was going to go into philosophy...and suddenly I found this way to combine that with my love for visual mediums.” WayIdeasPhilosophyFoundExcitingPhilosophicalPsychologicalMediumsVisualsDiscussing Author:Andrew Neel
“Men who allow their love of power to give them a distorted view of the world are to be found in every asylum: one man will think he is the Governor of the Bank of England, another will think he is the King, and yet another will think he is God. Highly similar delusions, if expressed by educated men in obscure language, lead to professorships of philosophy; and if expressed by emotional men in eloquent language, lead to dictatorships.” IfsThinkingMenWorldGivingPhilosophyFoundLanguageViewsEmotionalKingsEnglandEducatedDelusionOne ManGovernorsDictatorshipObscureEloquentAsylumsEducated ManProfessorship Book:Power: A New Social Analysis Source: Power: A New Social Analysis
“I lived in the world of poetry and ideas. I thought life was all about art and philosophy. In the military, I suddenly found out about the real world.” WorldArtIdeasRealPhilosophyFoundMilitaryReal WorldThoughts On Life Author:Shahin Najafi
“I do not presume that I have found the best philosophy, I know that I understand the true philosophy.” KnowsPhilosophyFound Book:Letters to Friend and Foe Source: Letters to Friend and Foe
“At one point I took a copy of Berkeley's Principles from my father's library. That was the first philosophy book I read. I found it fascinating and wanted to read more philosophy.” FirstsBookPhilosophyWantedFoundFatherPrinciplesLibraryFascinatingCopiesBerkeley Author:Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra