Quotes about philosophy
philosophy teaching men
The energy available for each individual man is his income, and the philosophy which can teach him to be content with penury should be capable of teaching him also the uses of wealth. Frederick Soddy
philosophy ideas people
Frankly, I do not like the idea of conversations to define the term "unconditional surrender."The German people can have dinned into their ears what I said in my Christmas Eve speech--in effect, that we have no thought of destroying the German people and that we want them to live through the generations like other European peoples on condition, of course, that they get rid of their present philosophy of conquest. Franklin D. Roosevelt
philosophy philosophical profound
The science of systematics has long been affected by profound philosophical preconceptions, which have been all the more influential for being usually covert, even subconscious. George Gaylord Simpson
philosophy writing rocks
Everyone eventually winds up writing about themselves - the problem is finding the best way to go about it. To write about oneself literally, in the first person, presumes a more interesting personal life and philosophy than most rock lyricists possess. John Lennon was good for one great album based on musical direct address, 'Plastic Ono Band. Jon Landau
philosophy eye thinking
When I open my eyes I must sigh, for what I see is contrary to my religion, and I must despise the world which does not know that music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy. Ludwig van Beethoven
philosophy difficulty knows
The difficulty in philosophy is to say no more than we know. Ludwig Wittgenstein
philosophy logical clarification
The object of philosophy is the logical clarification of thought.
philosophy philosopher consciousness
The philosopher strives to find the liberating word, that is, the word that finally permits us to grasp what up to now has intangibly weighed down upon our consciousness.
philosophy theory activity
Philosophy is not a theory but an activity.
philosophy book blue
Russell's books should be bound in two colours, those dealing with mathematical logic in red - and all students of philosophy should read them; those dealing with ethics and politics in blue - and no one should be allowed to read them.
philosophy glasses firsts
I'm doing philosophy like an old woman, first I'm looking for my pencil, then I'm looking for my glasses, then I'm looking for my pencil again.
philosophy philosophical bottles
What is your aim in philosophy? To show the fly the way out of the fly-bottle.
philosophy want sound
Sometimes, in doing philosophy, one just wants to utter an inarticulate sound.
philosophy irritation long
Philosophy hasn't made any progress? - If somebody scratches the spot where he has an itch, do we have to see some progress? Isn't genuine scratching otherwise, or genuine itching itching? And can't this reaction to an irritation continue in the same way for a long time before a cure for the itching is discovered?
philosophy skills philosopher
It is one of the chief skills of the philosopher not to occupy himself with questions which do not concern him.
philosophy doors trying
Philosophy is like trying to open a safe with a combination lock: each little adjustment of the dials seems to achieve nothing, only when everything is in place does the door open.
philosophy tasks analysis
The sole remaining task for philosophy is the analysis of language.
philosophy philosophical body
Philosophy aims at the logical clarification of thoughts. Philosophy is not a body of doctrine but an activity. A philosophical work consists essentially of elucidations.
philosophy use may
Philosophy may in no way interfere with the actual use of language; it can in the end only describe it.
philosophy common-sense three
Philosophy can be said to consist of three activities: to see the commonsense answer, to get yourself so deeply into the problem that the common sense answer is unbearable, and to get from that situation back to the commonsense answer.
philosophy limits unthinkable
Philosophy limits the thinkable and therefore the unthinkable.
philosophy simple thinking
Philosophy unravels the knots in our thinking; hence its results must be simple, but its activity is as complicated as the knots that it unravels.
philosophy giving tasks
Philosophy is not a body of doctrine but an activity. ...Without philosophy thoughts are, as it were, cloudy and indistinct: its task is to make them clear and to give them sharp boundaries.
philosophy opposites important
A good guide will take you through the more important streets more often than he takes you down side streets; a bad guide will do the opposite. In philosophy I'm a rather bad guide.
philosophy philosophical mean
In philosophy it is always good to put a question instead of an answer to a question. For an answer to the philosophical question may easily be unfair; disposing of it by means of another question is not.
philosophy fighting expression
Philosophy, as we use the word, is a fight against the fascination which forms of expression exert upon us.
philosophy philosophical silence
Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.
philosophy philosophical mean
Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language.
philosophy garden tree
I am sitting with a philosopher in the garden; he says again and again 'I know that that’s a tree', pointing to a tree that is near us. Someone else arrives and hears this, and I tell him: 'This fellow isn’t insane. We are only doing philosophy.
philosophy philosophical humor
A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes.
philosophy passion men
The falsest of all philosophies is that which, under the pretext of delivering men from the embarrassment of their passions, counsels idleness and the abandonment and neglect of themselves. Luc de Clapiers
philosophy philosopher sincerity
Clearness marks the sincerity of philosophers.
philosophy atheism causes
In good philosophy, the word cause ought to be reserved to the single Divine impulse that has formed the universe. Louis Pasteur