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英语格言警句 Philosophy (P9)
A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books.
- Walt Whitman
Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh....
- Kahlil Gibran
All the interests of my reason, speculative as well as practical, combine in the three following questions: 1. What can I know? 2. What ought I to do? 3. What may I hope?
- Immanuel Kant
We rely upon the poets, the philosophers, and the playwrights to articulate what most of us can only feel, in joy and sorrow. They illuminate the thoughts for which we only grope; they give us the strength and balm we cannot find in ourselves. Whenever I feel my courage wavering I rush to them. They will give me the wisdom of acceptance, the will and resilience to push on.
- Helen Hayes
Philosophy consists very largely of one philosopher arguing that all others are jackasses. He usually proves it, and I should add that he also usually proves that he is one himself.
- H. L. Mencken
Astonishment is the root of philosophy.
- Paul Tillich
There are three classes of men; the retrograde, the stationary and the progressive.
- Johann Kaspar Lavater
Loyalty to a petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul.
- Mark Twain
The hunger for facile wisdom is the root of all false philosophy.
- George Santayana
It is at once evident that a religion which is able to make vital connection with a world-view based on the principles inherent in evolution, democracy, and science will be a new thing under the sun.
- A. Eustace Haydon
Intuition does not in itself amount to knowledge, yet cannot be disregarded by philosophers and psychologists.
- Corliss Lamont
He was a dreamer, a thinker, a speculative philosopher... or, as his wife would have it, an idiot.
- Douglas Adams
I can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure.
- John D. Rockefeller
I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.
- Baruch Spinoza
I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. My sons ought to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history, naval architecture, navigation, commerce and agriculture in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, music, architecture, statuary, tapestry, and porcelain.
- John Adams
The philosophy of one century is the common sense of the next.
- Henry Ward Beecher
Philosophy consists very largely of one philosopher arguing that all others are jackasses. He usually proves it, and I should add that he also usually proves that he is one himself.
- H. L. Mencken
There is no statement so absurd that no philosopher will make it.
- Cicero
Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck.
- Immanuel Kant
Philosophy, n. A route of many roads leading from nowhere to nothing.
- Ambrose Bierce
Science is what you know. Philosophy is what you don't know.
- Bertrand Russell
If a man's good for nothing else, he can at least teach philosophy.
- William James
Philosophy is at once the most sublime and the most trivial of human pursuits.
- William James
Pragmatism asks its usual question. "Grant an idea or belief to be true," it says, "what concrete difference will its being true make in anyone's actual life? How will the truth be realized? What experiences will be different from those which would obtain if the belief were false? What, in short, is the truth's cash-value in experiential terms?
Pragmatism (1907)
- William James
In laying hands upon the sacred ark of absolute permanency, in treating the forms that had been regarded as types of fixity and perfection as originating and passing away, the Origin of Species introduced a mode of thinking that in the end was bound to transform the logic of knowledge, and hence the treatment of morals, politics, and religion.
The Influence of Darwin on Philosophy
- John Dewey
All schools, all colleges, have two great functions: to confer, and to conceal, valuable knowledge. The theological knowledge which they conceal cannot justly be regarded as less valuable than that which they reveal. That is, when a man is buying a basket of strawberries it can profit him to know that the bottom half of it is rotten.
1908, notebook
- Mark Twain
Stripped of ethical rationalizations and philosophical pretensions, a crime is anything that a group in power chooses to prohibit.
- Freda Adler
A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.
- George Bernard Shaw
The society which scorns excellence in plumbing because plumbing is a humble activity, and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because philosophy is an exalted activity, will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy. Neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water.
- John W. Gardner
Conservatism stands on man's confessed limitations; reform on his indisputable infinitude; conservatism on circumstance; liberalism on power; one goes to make an adroit member of the social frame; the other to postpone all things to the man himself; conservatism is debonnair and social; reform is individual and imperious.
The Conservative
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just enjoy your ice cream while it's on your plate -- that's my philosophy.
The Skin of Our Teeth, 1942
- Thornton Wilder
This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.
- Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama
There will be no end to the troubles of states, or of humanity itself, till philosophers become kings in this world, or till those we now call kings and rulers really and truly become philosophers, and political power and philosophy thus come into the same hands.
- Plato
The perfection of wisdom, and the end of true philosophy is to proportion our wants to our possessions, our ambitions to our capacities, we will then be a happy and a virtuous people.
- Mark Twain
History is Philosophy teaching by examples.
- Thucydides
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