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The discovery of what is true and the practice of that which is good are the two most important aims of philosophy.


Voltaire


#discovery

Whereas I think: I’m lying here in a haystack... The tiny space I occupy is so infinitesimal in comparison with the rest of space, which I don’t occupy and which has no relation to me. And the period of time in which I’m fated to live is so insignificant beside the eternity in which I haven’t existed and won’t exist... And yet in this atom, this mathematical point, blood is circulating, a brain is working, desiring something... What chaos! What a farce!


Ivan Turgenev


#mathematics

Kim olursak olalım, dünyanın hangi yerinde yaşarsak yaşayalım, ta derinlerde bir yerde hepimiz bir eksiklik duygusu taşımaktayız. Sanki temel bir şeyimizi kaybetmişiz de geri alamamaktan korkuyoruz. Neyin eksik olduğunu bilenimizde hakikaten çok az.


Elif Shafak


#imagination #life #philosophy #truth #writing

No code of ethics and no effort are justifiable a priori in the face of the cruel mathematics that command our condition.


Albert Camus


#suicide #mathematics

In the eighteenth century, philosophers considered the whole of human knowledge, including science, to be their field and discussed questions such as: Did the universe have a beginning? However, in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, science became too technical and mathematical for the philosophers, or anyone else except a few specialists. Philosophers reduced the scope of their inquiries so much that Wittgenstein, the most famous philosopher of this century, said, "The sole remaining task for philosophy is the analysis of language." What a comedown from the great tradition of philosophy from Aristotle to Kant!


Stephen Hawking


#science #wittgenstein #science

The map is not the territory.


Alfred Korzybski


#metaphysics #philosophy #metaphysics

...reality is always plural and mutable.


Robert Anton Wilson


#philosophy #metaphysics

Whether you take the doughnut hole as a blank space or as an entity unto itself is a purely metaphysical question and does not affect the taste of the doughnut one bit.


Haruki Murakami


#metaphysical #philosophy #taste #metaphysics

A modern philosopher who has never once suspected himself of being a charlatan must be such a shallow mind that his work is probably not worth reading.


Leszek Kołakowski


#doubt #irony #modernity #philosophy #self-criticism






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