#phil

What is the meaning of the togetherness of the perceiving mind, in that peculiar modification of perceiving which makes it perceive not a star but a tree, and the tree itself, is a problem for philosophy. ↗

— Samuel Alexander

#makes #meaning #meaning of #mind #modification

The philosophy of one century is the common sense of the next. ↗

— Henry Ward Beecher

#common #common sense #next #philosophy #sense

The minister and the priest teach that the organization is greater. No great philosophy has ever come from an organization, but from an individual whose research has been a personal study of God and ITS ways. ↗

— Paul Twitchell

#come #ever #god #great #greater

And usually [the philosopher] philosophizes either in order to resign himself to life, or to seek some finality in it, or to distract himself and forget his griefs, or for pastime and amusement. ↗

— Miguel de Unamuno

#life

The most total opposite of pleasure is not pain but boredom, for we are willing to risk pain to make a boring life interesting. ↗

— Peter Kreeft

#catholicism #christianity #jesus-shock #philosophy #pleasure

The human imagination... has great difficulty in living strictly within the confines of a materialist practice or philosophy. It dreams, like a dog in its basket, of hares in the open. ↗

— John Berger

#confines #difficulty #dog #dreams #great

So I think one can say on empirical grounds - not because of some philosophical principle - that you can't have democracy unless you have a market economy. ↗

— Peter L. Berger

#democracy #economy #empirical #grounds #i

All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusions is called a philosopher. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#called #delusions #his #lunatics #philosopher

I don't see myself as a philosopher. That's awfully boring. ↗

— Ray Bradbury

#boring #i #myself #philosopher #see

If you open your heart, then the object of your love becomes so precious because you are so open. And that philosophy, that caring, spreads. ↗

— Jeff Bridges

#becomes #caring #heart #love #object