Philosopher Quotes - Page 22

• Maybe those nihilist philosophers are right; maybe this is all we can expect of the universe, a relentless crushing of life and spirit, because the equilibrium state of the cosmos is death.

  Unknown

  Crush, Nihilism, Spirit

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• I think architecture could be understood as the construction of realities, or the construction of worlds. One of the reasons why architects are often attracted to philosophers, partially, has to do with making sense of the world around us as well as the making of worlds, and in our case, the realities we create can be as real as concrete. These kinds of ideas, of wild imagination, go into the question of how you make a world.

  Jimenez Lai

  Real, Thinking, Imagination

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Theories of love are found in the works of scientists, philosophers, and theologians.

  Mortimer Adler

  Scientist, Found, Theory

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• Philosophers and theologians have argued for centuries over the morality of targeted assassinations - a technique that the Israelis use with some frequency - without ever reaching anything approaching consensus.

  Eric Alterman

  Technique, Use, Morality

  "Dick Cheney's Shadow Government" by Eric Alterman, www.realclearpolitics.com. July 14, 2009.

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• The theologian considers sin mainly as an offence against God; the moral philosopher as contrary to reasonableness.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Powerful, Moral, Sin

  Saint Thomas Aquinas (1951). “Philosophical Texts”, London : Oxford University Press

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• Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today - but the core of science fiction, its essence has become crucial to our salvation if we are to be saved at all.

  Isaac Asimov

  Writing, Essence, Fiction Stories

  "My Own View". "The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction". Book edited by Robert Holdstock, 1978.

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• St. Paul would say to the philosophers that God created man so that he would seek the Divine, try to attain the Divine. That is why all pre-Christian philosophy is theological at its summit.

  Hans Urs von Balthasar

  Christian, Philosophy, Men

  Hans Urs von Balthasar (1993). “My Work: In Retrospect”, p.99, Ignatius Press

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• Dostoevsky is such a bad writer it is hard to take him seriously as a novelist, though he is a wonderful philosopher.

  John Banville

  Novelists, Wonderful, Hard

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• Pakistan is heir to an intellectual tradition of which the illustrious exponent was the poet and philosopher Mohammad Iqbal. He saw the future course for Islamic societies in a synthesis between adherence to the faith and adjustment to the modern age.

  Benazir Bhutto

  Islamic, Intellectual, Age

  Benazir Bhutto (1989). “Speeches and Statements: Apr. 2-Nov. 14, 1989”

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• I'm most impressed by the Russian writers, so I love reading the works of Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky. Another author who has informed the way I think is the French philosopher, Blaise Pascal.

  Andrea Bocelli

  Reading, Thinking, Way

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• It has always surprised me how little attention philosophers have paid to humor, since it is a more significant process of mind than reason. Reason can only sort out perceptions, but the humor process is involved in changing them.

  Edward de Bono

  Perception, Mind, Attention

  Edward de Bono (2016). “The Happiness Purpose”, p.70, Random House

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• It's always amazed me how little attention philosophers, psychologists, or anyone else actually has paid to humor.

  Edward de Bono

  Attention, Littles, Psychologist

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• I don't see myself as a philosopher. That's awfully boring.

  Ray Bradbury

  Boring

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• One may summon his philosophy when they are beaten in battle, not till then.

  John Burroughs

  Philosophy, Philosophical, Battle

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• For my future I have no concern, and as a true philosopher, I never would have any, for I know not what it may be: as a Christian, on the other hand, faith must believe without discussion, and the stronger it is, the more it keeps silent.

  Giacomo Casanova

  Christian, Believe, Hands

  Giacomo Casanova (2013). “The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt: Complete”, p.28, Simon and Schuster

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• To philosophize is only another way of being afraid and leads hardly anywhere but to cowardly make-believe.

  Louis-Ferdinand Celine

  Philosophy, Believe, Philosophical

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• A new philosophy generally means in practice the praise of some old vice.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Philosophy, Mean, Practice

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• The most dangerous criminal now is the entirely lawless modern philosopher. Compared to him, burglars and bigamists are essentially moral men.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Philosophical, Men, Criminals

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.171, Simon and Schuster

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• There is nothing so absurd that some philosopher has not already said it.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Funny, Philosophical, Absurd

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• We are motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is the more he is inspired by glory. The very philosophers themselves, even in those books which they write in contempt of glory, inscribe their names.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Book, Writing, Men

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• Philosophers write for professors; thinkers for writers.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Writing, Professors, Thinker

  "Ecartelement (Drawn and Quartered)". Book by Emile M. Cioran, 1983.

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• Why is it apparently the philosopher who is expected to be "easier" and not some scientist or other who is even more inaccessible to the same readers?

  Jacques Derrida

  Scientist, Easier, Expected

  "Points...: Interviews, 1974-1994".

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• Scientists search for truth. Philosophers search for morality. A criminal trial searches for only one result: proof beyond a reasonable doubt.

  Alan Dershowitz

  Doubt, Criminals, Trials

  "Casey Anthony: The System Worked" by Alan Dershowitz, www.wsj.com. July 7, 2011.

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• There is nothing so strange and so unbelievable that it has not been said by one philosopher or another.

  Rene Descartes

  Strange, Said, Unbelievable

  "Discourse on the Method". Treatise by René Descartes, Pt. 2, 1637.

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• And new Philosophy calls all in doubt, the element of fire is quite put out; the Sun is lost, and the earth, and no mans wit can well direct him where to look for it.

  John Donne

  Philosophy, Fire, Doubt

  'An Anatomy of the World: The First Anniversary' (1611) l. 205

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