Quotes about philosophy
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Will Durant1885–1981The Story of Philosophy (1926)God is what mind becomes when it has passed beyond our comprehension.
Freeman Dyson1923–2020Infinite in All Directions (1988), Ch. 6: How Will it All End?- Freeman Dyson1923–2020“Progress in Religion”, Templeton Prize address (May 2000)
A philosophy has a practical power: it contributes to the changing of the world.
Umberto Eco1932–2016Semiotics and the Philosophy of Language (1984), [O] : Introduction, 0.7
Jonathan Edwards1703–1758The Freedom of the Will (1754).Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
Albert Einstein1879–1955Letter to Besso’s family (March 1955) following the death of Michele Besso, as quoted in Disturbing the Universe (1979) by Freeman Dyson Ch. 17 “A Distant Mirror”, p. 193When I study philosophical works I feel I am swallowing something which I don’t have in my mouth.
Man is, at one and the same time, a solitary being and a social being.
Albert Einstein1879–1955“Why Socialism?”, Monthly Review (May 1949)
Ralph Waldo Emerson1803–1882The Conduct of Life (1860), Illusions
E. M. Forster1879–1970Two Cheers for Democracy (1951), “George and Gide”By the side of the everlasting Why there is a Yes—a transitory Yes if you like, but a Yes.
Maybe the target nowadays is not to discover what we are but to refuse what we are.
Michel Foucault1926–1984“The Subject and Power” (1982), p. 785
Erich Fromm1900–1980Man for Himself (1947), Ch. 3