A political battle is merely a skirmish fought with muskets; a philosophical battle is a nuclear war.
Philosophy - Philosophers Quotes
There is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers.
In Plato’s opinion man was made for philosophy, in Bacon’s opinion philosophy was made for man.
If you thirst to know who said, “I think, therefore I am,” your thirst I will quench; It was Rene’ Descartes, only what he actually said was, “Je pense, donc je suis,” because he was French. He also said it in Latin, “Cogito, ergo sum,” Just to show that he was a man of culture […]
Qua religion, no – in the sense of blind belief, belief unsupported by, or contrary to, the facts of reality and the conclusions of reason. Faith, as such, is extremely detrimental to human life: it is the negation of reason. But you must remember that religion is an early form of philosophy, that the first […]
What every genuine philosopher (every genuine man, in fact) craves most is Praise – although the philosophers generally call it ‘recognition’!
Now the words that he spoke seemed the wisest of philosophies There was nothing ever gained by a wet thing called a tear. When the world is too dark, and I need the light inside of me, I walk into a pub and drink fifteen pints of beer. Lyrics
If you wish to understand a philosopher, do not ask what he says, but find out what he wants.
Philosophy lives in words, but truth and fact well up in to our lives in ways that exceed verbal formulation. There is in the living act of perception always something that glimmers and twinkles and will not be caught, and for which reflection comes too late.
The more conscious a philosopher is of the weak spots of his theory, the more certain he is to speak with an air of final authority.
