#phil

'I know this is going to end bad, but I'm going to pretend it's going to end good.' My life's philosophy. ↗

— Johnny Knoxville

#end #going #good #i #know

I believe in Supreme Being, a Creator, whoever he may be, it's of no importance to me, who put us here on earth to do our duty as citizens and fathers; but I don't need to go to church and kiss silver platters and dig into my pocket to fatten up a lot of humbugs who eat better than you or I do! Because he can be worshiped just as well in a wood, a field, or even just gazing at the ethereal vault, like the ancients. ↗

— Gustave Flaubert

#religion #satire #religion

It is, I think, particularly in periods of acknowledged crisis that scientists have turned to philosophical analysis as a device for unlocking the riddles of their field. Scientists have not generally needed or wanted to be philosophers. ↗

— Thomas Kuhn

#analysis #crisis #device #field #generally

There are metaphysical problems, problems of human existence, that philosophy has never known how to grasp in all their concreteness and that only the novel can seize. ↗

— Milan Kundera

#grasp #how #human #human existence #known

If I can't find a project that I'm really interested in, I'll just go back to college where I've been studying art history and French. I'm also going to study English and philosophy - the whole curriculum! ↗

— Emmy Rossum

#art #art history #back #been #college

The present basic philosophy is nuclear deterrence. ↗

— Joseph Rotblat

#deterrence #nuclear #philosophy #present

I like to cook with the philosophy of using great ingredients and not altering them too much. ↗

— Aaron Sanchez

#cook #great #i #ingredients #like

It is possible to be a master in false philosophy, easier, in fact, than to be a master in the truth, because a false philosophy can be made as simple and consistent as one pleases. ↗

— George Santayana

#consistent #easier #fact #false #in fact

The philosophy of the common man is an old wife that gives him no pleasure, yet he cannot live without her, and resents any aspersions that strangers may cast on her character. ↗

— George Santayana

#cannot #cast #character #common #common man

Philosophers are very severe towards other philosophers because they expect too much. ↗

— George Santayana

#expect #much #other #philosophers #severe