#phil

The world of physics is essentially the real world construed by mathematical abstractions, and the world of sense is the real world construed by the abstractions which the sense-organs immediately furnish. To suppose that the "material mode" is a primitive and groping attempt at physical conception is a fatal error in epistemology. ↗

— Susanne K. Langer

#philosophy-of-language #philosophy-of-science #art

I'm Phil Knight, and I don't believe in advertising. ↗

— Phil Knight

#believe #i #knight #phil

A Paradox, the doughnut hole. Empty space, once, but now they've learned to market even that. A minus quantity; nothing, rendered edible. I wondered if they might be used-metaphorically, of course-to demonstrate the existence of God. Does naming a sphere of nothingness transmute it into being? ↗

— Margaret Atwood

#marketing #philosophy #religion #food

What a silly thing love is!' said the student as he walked away. 'It is not half as useful as logic, for it does not prove anything, and it is always telling one of things that are not going to happen, and making one believe things that are not true. In fact, it is quite unpractical, and, as in this age to be practical is everything, I shall go back to philosophy and study metaphysics.' So he returned to his room and pulled out a great dusty book, and began to read. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#philosophy #student #study #age

My philosophy is very simple. To feel young, you must work as long as you can. ↗

— Dino De Laurentiis

#long #must #philosophy #simple #very

True politics cannot take a single step without first paying homage to morals, and while politics itself is a difficult art, its combination with morals is no art at all; for morals cuts the Gordian knot which politics cannot solve as soon as the two are in conflict. ↗

— Immanuel Kant

#philosophy #politics #art

Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all. André Chevalier ↗

— Nikki Sex

#life-philosophy #philosophy #education

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival. ↗

— C. S. Lewis

#art #give #like #philosophy #rather

Democracy may have arisen in the West as the way of striving for the universal aspiration to dignity and freedom, but it isn't alien to the underlying concepts that infuse religion and moral philosophy everywhere. ↗

— Flora Lewis

#arisen #aspiration #concepts #democracy #dignity

Using your talent, hobby or profession in a way that makes you cintribute with something good to this world is truly the way to go. ↗

— Simon Zingerman

#business #creativity #feel-good #good-hearted #goodness