All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delu
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All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.
Philosophers, for the most part, are constitution
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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.
Philosophy is a state of fermentation, a process
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Philosophy is a state of fermentation, a process without final outcome.
Get married, in any case. If you happen to
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Get married, in any case. If you happen to get a good mate, you will be happy; if a bad one, you will become philosophical, which is a fine thing in itself.
Philosophy will clip an angel's wings,
Conque
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Philosophy will clip an angel's wings,
Conquer all mysteries by rule and line,
Empty the haunted air, and gnomed mine -
Unweave a rainbow.
When I study philosophical works I feel I am swall
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When I study philosophical works I feel I am swallowing something which I don't have in my mouth.
Religion is a man using a divining rod. Phi
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Religion is a man using a divining rod. Philosophy is a man using a pick and shovel.
To teach how to live with uncertainty, yet withou
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To teach how to live with uncertainty, yet without being paralyzed by hesitation, is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy can do.
Nobody can have the consolations of religion or p
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Nobody can have the consolations of religion or philosophy unless he has first experienced their desolations.
When he to whom one speaks does not understand, a
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When he to whom one speaks does not understand, and he who speaks himself does not understand, that is metaphysics.
If everybody contemplates the infinite instead of
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If everybody contemplates the infinite instead of fixing the drains, many of us will die of cholera.
I was thrown out of college for cheating on the m
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I was thrown out of college for cheating on the metaphysics exam: I looked into the soul of another boy.
Learning Zen is a phenomenon of gold and dung.
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Learning Zen is a phenomenon of gold and dung. Before you understand it, it's like gold; after you understand it, it's like dung.
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