Your Favourite Philosophy Quote
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The question "why" is essentially the ultimate, the first, and the greatest philosophical quote because it embodies philosophy in and of itself. If we never asked "why does this work", "why is the sky blue", "why do birds fly and we don't", "why do I die if that red stuff comes out", and other such questions, we wouldn't know the answers. We would not have the knowledge that our species so lustily cares for and seeks after.
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There are so many favourite Quotes but i love this one most by Will Durant:
India was the motherland of our race, and Sanskrit the mother of Europe's languages: she was the mother of our philosophy; mother, through the Arabs, of much of our mathematics; mother, through the Buddha, of the ideals embodied in Christianity; mother, through the village community, of self-government and democracy. Mother India is in many ways the mother of us all. Nothing should more deeply shame the modern student than the recency and inadequacy of his acquaintance with India....This is the India that patient scholarship is now opening up like a new intellectual continent to that Western mind which only yesterday thought civilization an exclusive Western thing.
:m: After reading Quotes of innumerous scientists and intellectuals of the world about Hinduism and India, now i feel Will Durant was so right. :m:
India was the motherland of our race, and Sanskrit the mother of Europe's languages: she was the mother of our philosophy; mother, through the Arabs, of much of our mathematics; mother, through the Buddha, of the ideals embodied in Christianity; mother, through the village community, of self-government and democracy. Mother India is in many ways the mother of us all. Nothing should more deeply shame the modern student than the recency and inadequacy of his acquaintance with India....This is the India that patient scholarship is now opening up like a new intellectual continent to that Western mind which only yesterday thought civilization an exclusive Western thing.
:m: After reading Quotes of innumerous scientists and intellectuals of the world about Hinduism and India, now i feel Will Durant was so right. :m:
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"I think therefore I am"
-Decartes
-Decartes
I'm pretty sure that's Douglas Adams from the Hitchhiker's Guide.Hapsburg said:
Sorry Graham, those quotes are old. Still good ones though.Hapsburg said:
Here's one of my favorites:
"Beer: the cause of, and solution to, all of lifes problems."
-Homer J. Simpson
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Rational thought is interpretation according to a scheme which we cannot escape.
There are no moral phenomena at all, but only a moral interpretation of phenomena.
To be truthful means using the customary metaphors
- in moral terms, the obligation to lie according to fixed convention.
- Herr Doktor Professor Wilhelm Friedrich Nietzsche
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Rational thought is interpretation according to a scheme which we cannot escape.
There are no moral phenomena at all, but only a moral interpretation of phenomena.
To be truthful means using the customary metaphors
- in moral terms, the obligation to lie according to fixed convention.
- Herr Doktor Professor Wilhelm Friedrich Nietzsche
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Theoryofrelativity said:
I hate it when people quote philosophy in a philosophical discussion, as if philosophy is a field filled with experts. Bah! If you don't have your own ideas, don't bother, I say. I always get into these bouts with my girlfriend, who insists on giving me something from Aristotle or Plato (she's very Catholic, and Catholics don't like any philosophers but the Greeks, so it's limited at that). The argument usually consists of me trying to get what she thinks on the subject out of her, but she has chosen to differ to some imaginary authority. So frustrating!
"If I am blind, need you strike a blind man across the face?"
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- Denis Diderot
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"It is not worth an intelligent man's time to be in the majority. By definition, there are already enough people to do that."
-- G. H. Hardy
-- G. H. Hardy