#philosophy

When a father inquired about the best method of educating his son in ethical conduct, a Pythagorean replied: "Make gim a citizen of a state with good laws. ↗

— Hegel

#hegelianism #philosophy #education

History is Philosophy teaching by example. ↗

— Thucydides

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I had a philosophy, which may have been proven right, that directing isn't as hard as everyone says it is. ↗

— Matthew Vaughn

#directing #everyone #had #hard #i

In philosophy, you have to reckon with the implicit level of an accumulated reserve, and thus with a very great number of relays, with the shared responsibility of these relays. ↗

— Jacques Derrida

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Almost all arguments for skepticism make reference to seemingly ridiculous possibilities—we are being deceived by an evil demon, life is just a dream, we are brains in vats. You might propose psychoanalysis, rather than philosophical reflection, for anyone who worries about these possibilities. ↗

— Richard Feldman

#dreams

We have to make philosophy itself an object of philosophical concern. ↗

— Wilhelm Dilthey

#itself #make #object #philosophical #philosophy

One of the professors told me last week that he feels bad teaching with the way the economy is now. ‘What’s the point?’ he said. ‘Kids aren’t getting jobs.’ You never hear faculty talk that way. He did. ↗

— Daniel Amory

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It is always the little things that build up. Often there is no dramatic reason for discontent in marriages. It seeps in slowly over the years. You don't even notice it creeping in. It happens, trickle by trickle. You do not realise when or how the easy familiarity gets replaced by a 'taken-for-granted' attitude over the years. By the time you do, it is often late. Habits have been formed, patterns have been set. And a comfort-zone have been established. A zone that is hard to get out of. ↗

— Preeti Shenoy

#attitude

Philosophy is not a theory but an activity. ↗

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

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As the new spirituality begins to become the pervasive spirituality of the planet, we'll find that we have abandoned our philosophy of contradictions in which we say we're all one but continue to try to win. ↗

— Neale Donald Walsch

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