#philosophy

You think because you face situations not of your making that you exercise no choice? That you are helpless? To the contrary, child. Your whole life has been full of choices. Hiding from a hard truth is a choice. Surrender - even to the inevitable - is a choice. Even in death there is a choice. You may have no control over the time or manner of your death, but you can choose how you face it. ↗

— C.L. Wilson

#death

The society which scorns excellence in plumbing as a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exalted activity will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy: neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water. ↗

— John W. Gardner

#activity #because #exalted #excellence #good

No man is equal to his book. All the best products of his mental activity go into his book, where they come separated from the mass of inferior products with which they are mingled in his daily talk. ↗

— Herbert Spencer

#hero #spencer #the-story-of-philosophy #equality

When you're in the muck you can only see muck. If you somehow manage to float above it, you still see the muck but you see it from a different perspective. And you see other things too. That's the consolation of philosophy. ↗

— David Cronenberg

#consolation #different #different perspective #float #manage

I just learned my lyrics and tried not to bump into the trumpet player. That was my philosophy. ↗

— Jo Stafford

#i #into #just #learned #lyrics

It should now be clear why the method of Philosophy is so different from that of the natural sciences. Experiments are not made, because they would be utterly useless. ↗

— Charles D. Broad

#clear #different #experiments #made #method

When we say that Philosophy tries to clear up the meanings of concepts we do not mean that it is simply concerned to substitute some long phrase for some familiar word. ↗

— Charles D. Broad

#concepts #concerned #familiar #long #mean

Words, without power, is mere philosophy. ↗

— Muhammad Iqbal

#philosophy #power #without #words

Only then, approaching my fortieth birthday, I made philosophy my life's work. ↗

— Karl Jaspers

#approaching #fortieth #i #life #made

If you've got unemployment, low pay, that was just too bad. But that was the system. That was the sort of economy and philosophy against which I was fighting in the 1930s. ↗

— Barbara Castle

#bad #economy #fighting #got #i