Philosophers, for example, often fail to recognize that their remarks about the universe apply also to themselves and their remarks. If the universe is meaningless, so is the statement that it is so.
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Quote:- Philosophers' Syndrome: mistaking a failure of the imagination for an insight into necessity.
Consciousness Explained
Author:- Daniel C. Dennett
Category:- philosophy
Quote:- Philosophically, Quotes absorb a sea of meaning; whereas, an insightful swimmer swims down into the bottom and fetches visionary diamonds of context, which aspire and inspire the hearts and minds of readers.
Author:- Ehsan Sehgal
Category:- best
Quote:- Philosophizing is simply one way of being afraid, a cowardly pretense that doesn't get you anywhere.
Journey to the End of the Night
Author:- Louis-Ferdinand Celine
Category:- philosophy
Quote:- Philosophobia: Fear of Philosophy Ambiguity
The Reformation
Author:- Lucy Carter
Category:- philosophy
Quote:- Philosophy . . .consists chiefly in suggesting unintelligible answers to insoluble problems.
The Education of Henry Adams
Author:- Henry Adams
Category:- philosophy
Quote:- Philosophy ... is a science, and as such has no articles of faith; accordingly, in it nothing can be assumed as existing except what is either positively given empirically, or demonstrated through indubitable conclusions.
Parerga and Paralipomena
Author:- Arthur Schopenhauer
Category:- knowledge,philosophy,science
Quote:- Philosophy [nature] is written in that great book which ever is before our eyes -- I mean the universe -- but we cannot understand it if we do not first learn the language and grasp the symbols in which it is written. The book is written in mathematical language, and the symbols are triangles, circles and other geometrical figures, without whose help it is impossible to comprehend a single word of it; without which one wanders in vain through a dark labyrinth.
Author:- Galileo
Category:- science
Quote:- Philosophy and science have not always been friendly toward the idea of God, the reason being they are dedicated to the task of accounting for things and are impatient with anything that refuses to give an account of itself. The philosopher and the scientist will admit that there is much that they do not know; but that is quite another thing from admitting there is something which they can never know, which indeed they have no technique for discovering.
Author:- A. W. Tozer
Category:- science,philosophy
Quote:- Philosophy begins in wonder. And at the end when philosophic thought has done its best the wonder remains.
Author:- Alfred North Whitehead
Category:- philosophy
Quote:- Philosophy cannot and should not give us an account of faith, but should understand itself and know just what it has indeed to offer, without taking anything away, least of all cheating people out of something by making them think it is nothing.
Author:- Søren Kierkegaard
Category:- philosophy
Quote:- Philosophy cannot be extinguished, though men will try ... The spirit seeks the light, that is its nature. It wishes to return to its origin, and must forever try to reach enlightenment.
The Dream of Scipio
Author:- Iain Pears
Category:- philosophy
Quote:- Philosophy cannot be taught; it is the application of the sciences to truth.
The Count of Monte Cristo
Author:- Alexandre Dumas
Category:- philosophy
Quote:- Philosophy does not claim to secure for us anything outside our control. Otherwise it would be taking on matters that do not concern it. For as wood is the material of the carpenter, and marble that of the sculptor, so the subject matter of the art of life is the life of the self.
Discourses and Selected Writings
Author:- Epictetus
Category:- philosophy
Quote:- Philosophy does not promise to secure anything external for man, otherwise it would be admitting something that lies beyond its proper subject-matter. For as the material of the carpenter is wood, and that of statuary bronze, so the subject-matter of the art of living is each person's own life.
Author:- Epictetus
Category:- best,philosophy
Quote:- 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?
Culture and Value
Author:- Ludwig Wittgenstein
Category:- philosophy