“What yoga philosophy and all the great Buddhist teachings tells us is that solidity is a creation of the ordinary mind and that there never was anything permanent to begin with that we could hold on to. Life would be much easier and substantially less painful if we lived with the knowledge of impermanence as the only constant.” IfsMindPhilosophyWould BeSuccessTeachingCreationEasierOrdinaryYogaConstantPainfulBuddhistPermanentImpermanenceSolidity Book:Yoga Mind, Body & Spirit: A Return to Wholeness Source: Yoga Mind, Body & Spirit: A Return to Wholeness
“I am only about half alive - a large part of my strength is consumed in sitting up or walking. My nervous system is a shattered wreck, and I am absolutely bored & listless save when I come upon something which peculiarly interests me. However - so many things do interest me, & interest me intensely, in science, history, philosophy, & literature; that I have never actually desired to die, or entertained any suicidal designs, as might be expected of one with so little kinship to the ordinary features of life.” LittlesPhilosophyMightDiesLiteratureInterestHalfAliveDesignWalkingOrdinarySittingExpectedNervousBoredFeaturesSuicidalConsumedWrecksShatteredNervous SystemKinshipSitting Up Author:H. P. Lovecraft
“Logical investigations can obviously be a useful tool for philosophy. They must, however, be informed by a sensitivity to the philosophical significance of the formalism and by a generous admixture of common sense, as well as a thorough understanding both of the basic concepts and of the technical details of the formal material used. It should not be supposed that the formalism can grind out philosophical results in a manner beyond the capacity of ordinary philosophical reasoning. There is no mathematical substitute for philosophy.” ShouldWellsPhilosophyUsedUnderstandingResultsCommonMaterialsOrdinaryConceptsCapacityToolsPhilosophicalDetailsCommon SenseMathematicalGenerousReasoningLogicalSignificanceSubstitutesInvestigationFormalSensitivityGrindThoroughThorough Understanding Author:Saul Kripke
“I have nothing but respect for people who travel the world to make art and put exotic Indians in front of linen backdrops, but it's always been my philosophy to try to make art out of the everyday and ordinary.” PeopleWorldTryingArtPhilosophyFrontsOrdinaryEverydayExoticTravel The WorldBackdropLinen Author:Sally Mann
“Philosophy teaches us to look at the world again. It brings out at a theoretical level what all plain, common, ordinary people, in a sense, know already.” PeopleKnowsWorldLooksPhilosophyLevelsCommonTeachOrdinaryOrdinary PeopleTheoretical Book:Impossible Objects Source: Impossible Objects
“The doctrine (of) maintaining that the language of daily life, with words used in their ordinary meanings, suffices for philosophy . . . I find myself totally unable to accept . . . . Because it makes almost inevitable the perpetuation amongst philosophers of the muddle-headedness they have taken over from common sense.” PhilosophyUsedLanguageCommonAcceptingTakenOrdinaryPhilosopherDoctrineCommon SenseInevitableDaily LifeMaintainingMuddle Author:Bertrand Russell
“Men who neglect philosophy while busying themselves with ordinary affairs are like the Suitors [in the Odyssey] who desired Penelope but went to bed with her maids.” MenPhilosophyBedOrdinaryAffairNeglectMaidsOdysseySuitors Author:Gorgias
“Philosophy... is indeed outrageous, inherently so. It seeks to disquiet the foundations of our lives and to offer us in recompense nothing better than itself- and this on the basis of no expert knowledge, of nothing closed to the ordinary human being, once... [one] lets himself or herself be informed by the process and ambition of philosophy.” HumansPhilosophyProcessHuman BeingsOur LivesOffersAmbitionOrdinaryBasesFoundationExpertsOutrageousRecompense Author:Stanley Cavell
“A worldview is not the same things a formal philosophy, otherwise it would only be for philosophers. Even ordinary people have a set of convictions about how reality functions and how they should live. Some convictions are conscious while others are unconscious but together they form a consistent picture of reality.” PeopleShouldPhilosophyRealityTogetherFormOrdinaryConsciousFunctionPhilosopherConvictionUnconsciousConsistentFormalOrdinary PeopleWorldview Author:Nancy Pearcey