Philosophical Quotes - Page 23

• While there is such a thing as correctness in ethics, in interpretation, in mathematics, the way to understand that is not by trying to model it on the ways in which we get things right in physics.

  Hilary Putnam

  Trying, Way, Ethics

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• One can defend common sense against the attacks of philosophers only by solving their puzzles, i.e., by curing them of the temptation to attack common sense.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Common Sense, Temptation, Philosopher

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• ...if there is a widely shared concept of intentional action... a philosophical analysis of intentional action that is wholly unconstrained by that concept runs the risk of having nothing more than a philosophical fiction as its subject matter.

  Alfred Mele

  Running, Risk, Fiction

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• Some philosophers are drawn to the subject [of philosophy] via their interest in the nature and structure of the world external to us. Others are drawn to it by an interest in the capacities that make humans distinctive in the world. I am a philosopher of the latter sort. My work thus far has been clustered around the nexus of knowledge, communication, and human action.

  Jason Stanley

  Philosophy, Communication, World

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• Now I do not myself share that superstitious reverence for the beliefs of common sense which many contemporary philosophers profess. But I think that we must start from them, and that we ought to depart from them only when we find good reason to do so.

  C. D. Broad

  Thinking, Common Sense, Philosopher

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• As so often happens in philosophy, clever people accept a false general principle on a priori grounds and then devote endless labour and ingenuity to explaining away plain facts which obviously conflict with it.

  C. D. Broad

  Clever, Philosophy, People

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• Reason is universal because no attempted challenge to its results can avoid appealing to reason in the end-by claiming, for example, that what was presented as an argument is really a rationalization. This can undermine our confidence in the original method or practice only by giving us reasons to believe something else, so that finally we have to think about the arguments to make up our minds.

  Thomas Nagel

  Believe, Thinking, Practice

  Thomas Nagel (1995). “Other Minds: Critical Essays 1969-1994”, p.213, Oxford University Press

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• When a man is proud because he can understand and explain the writings of Chrysippus, say to yourself, 'if Chrysippus had not written obscurely, this man would have had nothing to be proud of.'

  Epictetus

  Writing, Men, Proud

  Epictetus (2009). “The Enchiridion, or Handbook: With A Selection from the Discourses of Epictetus”, p.247, The Floating Press

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• If, like Hume, I had all manner of adornment in my power, I would still have reservations about using them. It is true that some readers will be scared off by dryness. But isn't it necessary to scare off some if in their case the matter would end up in bad hands?

  Immanuel Kant

  Hands, Scare, Matter

  Immanuel Kant (2005). “Notes and Fragments”, p.207, Cambridge University Press

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• Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Laughter, Wrath, Doe

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2009). “Basic Writings of Nietzsche”, p.422, Modern Library

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• It is only a man's own fundamental thoughts that have truth and life in them.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Men, Discarded, Truth And Life

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “Essays of Schopenhauer”, p.83, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• Success in the majority of circumstances depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.

  Baron de Montesquieu

  Success, Time, Knowing

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• Every guilty person is his own hangman.

  Seneca the Younger

  Punishment, Guilt, Persons

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Omnia apud me mathematica fiunt.

  Rene Descartes

  "Die Wiener Zeit: Aufsätze, Beiträge, Rezensionen 1926–1936" by Moritz Schlick, (p. 532), 2008.

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• You learn to know a pilot in a storm.

  Seneca the Younger

  Storm, Pilots, Knows

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

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• Peace is a natural effect of trade.

  Baron de Montesquieu

  Natural, Trade, Effects

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• So long as I confine my thoughts to my own ideas divested of words, I do not see how I can be easily mistaken.

  George Berkeley

  Ideas, Long, My Thoughts

  George Berkeley (1843). “The Works of George Berkeley: Including His Letters to Thomas Prior, Dean Gervais, Mr. Pope, Etc. : to which is Prefixed an Account of His Life”, p.85

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• Poverty wants some, luxury many, and avarice all things.

  Seneca the Younger

  Luxury, Want, Poverty

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Beyond Good and Evil, Aphorism 153

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Evil, Aphorism, Good And Evil

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• The Antichrist, Section 7

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Antichrist, Sections

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2010). “On the Genealogy of Morals and Ecce Homo”, p.335, Vintage

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• Ambition is the immoderate desire for honor.

  Baruch Spinoza

  Ambition, Power, Desire

  "The Essential Spinoza: Ethics and Related Writings".

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• The approach of liberty makes even an old man brave.

  Seneca the Younger

  Philosophy, Men, Brave

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• In business for yourself, not by yourself.

  William James

  Inspirational, Business

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• Peace is not the absence of war, but a virtue based on strength of character.

  Baruch Spinoza

  Peace, War, Character

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• We do not say: Being is, time is, but rather: there is Being and there is time.

  Martin Heidegger

  "On Time and Being".

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