#phil

Under heaven all can see beauty as beauty only because there is ugliness. All can know good as good only because there is evil. ↗

— Lao Tzu

#philosophy #tao-te-ching #beauty

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

Without living, how can you know? Without knowing, how can you speak? ↗

— J.E. Seanachaí

#life-lesson #philosophy #wisdom #writing #life

Skepticism is a virtue in history as well as in philosophy. ↗

— Napoleon Bonaparte

#philosophy #skepticism #virtue #well

I am very astonished that the scientific picture of the real world around me is very deficient. It gives a lot of factual information, puts all our experience in a magnificently consistent order, but it is ghastly silent about all and sundry that is really near to our heart, that really matters to us. It cannot tell us a word about red and blue, bitter and sweet, physical pain and physical delight; it knows nothing of beautiful and ugly, good or bad, God and eternity. Science sometimes pretends to answer questions in these domains, but the answers are very often so silly that we are not inclined to take them seriously. ↗

— Erwin Schrödinger

#philosophy #physics #science #beauty

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