Philosophy Quotes

[--star--girl--]

Heh, I thought it'd be fun to just post some philosophy quotes every once and a while when I find some good ones. So here's the first:

"Philosophy, n. A route of many roads leading from nowhere to nothing."
- Ambrose Bierce

I thought that one was really good. ^__^  

[Faroresama]

Heh. I was thinking of making a thread like this.

DAMN!!! I had such a good one, but I forgot it! gonk gonk stressed I have to remember it now...  

[PhilosophyMind]

YES! --star--girl-- you make me smile! heart

Here's another good one: Wisest is she that knows she does not know.

Picked that off of the Sophie's World journal prior to actually reading the book. Heh.  

[Foxtrotfan]

Inspiration may be a form of super-consciousness, or perhaps of subconsciousness-I wouldn't know. But I am sure it is the antithesis of self-consciousness.
---Aaron Copland

Yeah its not philosophy, but its about the human psyche...i love that quote.  

[--star--girl--]

Maybe this'll be a regular thing for me. 3nodding

"Science is what you know. Philosophy is what you don't know."
- Bertrand Russell  

[Faroresama]

PhilosophyMind

YES! --star--girl-- you make me smile! heart

Here's another good one: Wisest is she that knows she does not know.

Picked that off of the Sophie's World journal prior to actually reading the book. Heh.

You got the journal before you got the book?  

[Faroresama]

Well, i never remembered the quote, but here's one of my favorite:
"The unexamined life is not worth living." --Socrates  

[--star--girl--]

"My definition [of a philosopher] is of a man up in a balloon, with his family and friends holding the ropes which confine him to earth and trying to haul him down."
- Louisa May Alcott  

[Faroresama]

What an interesting quote!  

[PhilosophyMind]

Faroresama

PhilosophyMind

YES! --star--girl-- you make me smile! heart

Here's another good one: Wisest is she that knows she does not know.

Picked that off of the Sophie's World journal prior to actually reading the book. Heh.

You got the journal before you got the book?

I got them at the same time. I just started using the journal before I started reading the book.  

[Faroresama]

PhilosophyMind

Faroresama

PhilosophyMind

YES! --star--girl-- you make me smile! heart

Here's another good one: Wisest is she that knows she does not know.

Picked that off of the Sophie's World journal prior to actually reading the book. Heh.

You got the journal before you got the book?

I got them at the same time. I just started using the journal before I started reading the book.

Ohh....that makes more sense. heh. xp  

[--star--girl--]

"Any fool can say he is wise but only someone wise can admit he is a fool."
- Michael Reed  

[Faroresama]

--star--girl--

"Any fool can say he is wise but only someone wise can admit he is a fool."
- Michael Reed

::nods:: That's like the one that PhiloMind put up. Being able to admit your a fool is also modest!  

[--star--girl--]

"When he to whom one speaks does not understand, and he who speaks himself does not understand, that is metaphysics."
- Voltaire  

[Eilea]

--star--girl--

"When he to whom one speaks does not understand, and he who speaks himself does not understand, that is metaphysics."
- Voltaire

Ah, Voltaire...
"i do not agree with what you say, but i will defend to my death your right to say it"