No sooner do we depart from sense and instinct to follow reason but we are insensibly drawn into uncouth paradoxes, difficulties, and inconsistencies, which multiply and grow upon us as we advance in speculation; till at length, having wandered through many intricate mazes, we find ourselves just where we were, or, which is worse, sit down in a forlorn scepticism.
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Philosophy is written in this grand book – I mean the Universe – which stands continually open to our gaze…
Philosophy is written in this grand book – I mean the Universe – which stands continually open to our gaze, but it cannot be understood unless one first learns to comprehend the language and interpret the characters in which it is written. It is written in the language of mathematics, and its characters are triangles, circles and other geometrical figures, without which it is humanly impossible to understand a single word of it.
If we did not bring to the examinations of our instincts a knowledge of their comparative dignity we could…
If we did not bring to the examinations of our instincts a knowledge of their comparative dignity we could never learn it from them.
Consciousness is either inexplicable illusion, or else revelation. – C.S. Lewis
Consciousness is either inexplicable illusion, or else revelation.
I’m a philosophy major. That means I can think deep thoughts about being unemployed. – Bruce Lee
I’m a philosophy major. That means I can think deep thoughts about being unemployed.
To ridicule philosophy is really to philosophize. – Blaise Pascal
To ridicule philosophy is really to philosophize.
Man is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness from which he emerges and the infinity in which he is…
Man is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness from which he emerges and the infinity in which he is engulfed.
To teach how to live with uncertainty, yet without being paralyzed by hesitation, is perhaps the chief thing…
To teach how to live with uncertainty, yet without being paralyzed by hesitation, is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy can do.
The point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as not to seem worth stating, and to end with…
The point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as not to seem worth stating, and to end with something so paradoxical that no one will believe it.
Philosophers, for the most part, are constitutionally timid, and dislike the unexpected. Few of them would be…
Philosophers, for the most part, are constitutionally timid, and dislike the unexpected. Few of them would be genuinely happy as pirates or burglars. Accordingly they invent systems which make the future calculable, at least in its main outlines.
What do you know and how do you know it? – Ayn Rand
What do you know and how do you know it?
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