#philosophy

Peace is not so much a political mandate as it is a shared state of consciousness that remains elevated and intact only to the degree that those who value it volunteer their existence as living examples of the same... Peace ends with the unraveling of individual hope and the emergence of the will to worship violence as a healer of private and social dis-ease. ↗

— Aberjhani

#inspiration #iraq #peace #philosophy #september-

Philosophy: Unintelligible answers to insoluble problems. ↗

— Henry Adams

#insoluble #insoluble problems #philosophy #problems #unintelligible

Without philosophy, history is always for me dead and dumb. ↗

— Ferdinand Christian Baur

#dead #dumb #history #me #philosophy

I made art a philosophy, and philosophy an art: I altered the minds of men, and the colour of things: I awoke the imagination of my century so that it created myth and legend around me: I summed up all things in a phrase, all existence in an epigram: whatever I touched I made beautiful ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#beauty #literature #philosophy #art

Academe, n.: An ancient school where morality and philosophy were taught. Academy, n.: A modern school where football is taught. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#academe #academy #ancient #football #modern

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