Quotes of: Philosophically Keyword

The best way to measure the loss of intellectual sophistication - this "nerdification," to put it bluntly - is in the growing disappearance of sarcasm, as mechanic minds take insults a bit too literally.

The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms

Philosophy is best practised by people in general and not by philosophers alone. Philosophy is too often a luxury now, but in ancient Greece, carpenters, masons and beggars were the main practitioners. What I am trying to develop is a philosophical s...

Michel Onfray

Civilization is only possible for deeply unpleasant animals. It is only an ape that can be truly civilized.

The Philosopher and the Wolf: Lessons from the Wild on Love, Death, and Happiness

Other people's heads are too wretched a place for true happiness to have its seat.

Parerga and Paralipomena: Short Philosophical Essays, Vol 1: Parerga

The scientists often have more unfettered imaginations than current philosophers do. Relativity theory came as a complete surprise to philosophers, and so did quantum mechanics, and so did other things.

Robert Nozick

This queer crotchet [of Hamilton's] that algebra is the science of pure time has attracted many philosophers, and quite recently it has been exhumed and solemnly dissected by owlish metaphysicians seeking the philosopher's stone in the gall bladder o...

Eric Temple Bell

When I saw that Moses’ version of the Genesis of the world did not fit sufficiently in many ways with and the rest of the philosophers, I began to have doubts about the truth of all philosophers and started to investigate the secrets of nature.

Gerardus Mercator

The very fact of having fixed conclusions to strive for in orthodox belief does not render the Christian philosopher dogmatic but rather intellectually fruitful, willing to take and follow reason further than the putatively undogmatic unbelieving phi...

Gregory B. Sadler

Philosophy used to be a field that had content, but then 'natural philosophy' became physics, and physics has only continued to make inroads. Every time there's a leap in physics, it encroaches on these areas that philosophers have carefully sequeste...

Lawrence M. Krauss

The philosopher was eating bread and lentils for supper. He was seen by the philosopher , who lived comfortably by flattering the king. Said , ' .' Said [author:Diogenes|3213618, 'Learn to live on lentils and you will not have to be subservient to th...

Anthony de Mello

In asking philosophical questions, we use a reason shaped by the body, a cognitive unconscious to which we have no direct access, and metaphorical thought of which we are largely unaware. The fact that abstract thought is mostly metaphorical means th...

George Lakoff

Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

The Citizen of the World, Or, Letters from a Chinese Philosopher, Residing in London, to His Friends in the Country, by Dr. Goldsmith

The psychoanalytic liberation of memory explodes the rationality of the repressed individual. As cognition gives way to re-cognition, the forbidden images and impulses of childhood begin to tell the truth that reason denies.

Eros and Civilization: A Philosophical Inquiry into Freud

If is the bond binding me to life, binding society to me, connecting me with nature and man, is not money the bond of all ? Can it not dissolve and bind all ties? Is it not, therefore, also the universal of ?

Economic & Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844/The Communist Manifesto

When you beat up someone physically, you get excercise and stress relief; when you assault him verbally on the Internet, you just harm yourself.

The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms

... while we are familiar with the adverse effect of drink on an empty stomach, we are now witnessing the far worse effect of drink on an empty mind.

I Drink Therefore I am: A Philosopher's Guide to Wine

The living and efficaciously acting moral order is itself God. We require no other God, nor can we grasp any other.

Religious and Philosophical Writings of Johann Gottlieb Fichte

Socrates used to say, "Philosophers can be happy without music;" and Christians can be happier than philosophers when all outward causes of rejoicing are withdrawn.

Morning and Evening, Based on the English Standard Version

Man, made after God's image, was a nobler creation than twinkling sparks in the sky, or than the larger and more useful lamp of the moon.

More Worlds Than One: The Creed of the Philosopher and the Hope of the Christian

We don't learn anything there [school]. The difference between schoolteachers and philosophers us that school-teachers think they know a lot of stuff that they try to force down our throats. Philosophers try to figure things out together with the pup...

Sophie's World

That is an artist as I love artists, modest in his needs: he really wants only two things, his bread and his art - panem et Circen.

Twilight of the Idols, Or, How to Philosophize With the Hammer