Philosophy Quotes

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The sense that the meaning of the universe had evaporated was what seemed to escape those who welcomed Darwin as a benefactor of mankind. Nietzsche… — R. J. Hollingdale
My share of the work of the world may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious. Darwin could work only… — John Harvey Kellogg
In my opinion a mathematician, in so far as he is a mathematician, need not preoccupy himself with philosophy-an opinion, moreover, which has been expressed… — Henri Lebesgue
The issues involved are sufficiently important that courses are now moving out of the philosophy departments and into mainstream computer science. And they affect everyone.… — D. Michael Quinn
The idea of the universe as an interconnected whole is not new; for millennia it's been one of the core assumptions of Eastern philosophies. What… — Dean Radin
There is no philosophy which is not founded upon knowledge of the phenomena, but to get any profit from this knowledge it is absolutely necessary… — Daniel Bernoulli
I do not think the division of the subject into two parts - into applied mathematics and experimental physics a good one, for natural philosophy… — Balfour Stewart
Were it necessary to bring a majority into a comprehension of the libertarian philosophy, the cause of liberty would be utterly hopeless. Every significant movement… — Leonard Read
[We need not think] that there is any Contradiction, when Philosophy teaches that to be done by Nature; which Religion, and the Sacred Scriptures, teach… — Nehemiah Grew
Freud expressed the opinion-not quite in earnest, though, it seeemed to me-that philosophy was the most decent form of sublimation of repressed sexuality, nothing more.… — Unknown Author
In science its main worth is temporary, as a stepping-stone to something beyond. Even [Newton's] Principia ... is truly but the beginning of a natural… — Augustus William Hare
We should remember that there was once a discipline called natural philosophy. Unfortunately, this discipline seems not to exist today. It has been renamed science,… — Hannes Alfven
This incomparable Author having at length been prevailed upon to appear in public, has in this Treatise given a most notable instance of the extent… — Edmond Halley
Indiana Jones: Archaeology is the search for fact... not truth. If it's truth you're looking for, Dr. Tyree's philosophy class is right down the hall.… — Unknown Author
Philosophy became a gloomy science, in the labyrinth of which people vainly tried to find the exit, called The Truth. — Unknown Author
Philosophy would long ago have reached a high level if our predecessors and fathers had put this into practice; and we would not waste time… — Marin Mersenne
The traditional disputes of philosophers are, for the most part, as unwarranted as they are unfruitful. The surest way to end them is to establish… — A.J. Ayer
Painting is a science, and should be pursued as an inquiry into the laws of nature. Why, then, may not landscape painting be considered as… — John Constable
Questions that pertain to the foundations of mathematics, although treated by many in recent times, still lack a satisfactory solution. Ambiguity of language is philosophy's… — Giuseppe Peano
Abortion does not compute with my philosophy — Kate Mulgrew
I have two children. I have a daughter 29, and a daughter four. They are 25 years apart, so you speak about generations and I… — Burt Ward
As soon as we notice that certain types of events 'like' to cluster together at certain times, we begin to understand the Chinese, whose theories… — Marie-Louise von Franz
Religion ends and philosophy begins, just as alchemy ends and chemistry begins, and astrology ends and astronomy begins. — Richard Dawkins
Since philosophy is the art which teaches us how to live, and since children need to learn it as much as we do at other… — Michel de Montaigne
Since philosophy is the art which teaches us how to live, and since children need to learn it as much as we do at other… — Michel de Montaigne

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