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What is your favorite Philosophy quote or quotes?
The first one of my favorite two are: Which way did they go George, which way did they go?" This great quote from John Locke shows his dependance on his friend George. Lock was a heavy sleeper and when he first got up in the morning George was always there to point to Locke the direction he should go. Of special note is the fact that I never thought of the great American author, John Steinbeck as being a Locke fan till I read, "Of Mice and Men". Way to go George.
My second is: "Do not forget where ever you go there you are." The author of this quote is unknown because it goes back to the time of Rome and the saying, "All roads lead to room." As merchants traveled these many roads to Rome they always felt comfort in knowing that where ever they were on these roads they were always right there.
What is your favorite quote or quotes? Thanks for your time.
3 Answers
- WillLv 77 years agoFavorite Answer
PLATO:
"Is not the love of wisdom a practice of death?" (The PHAEDO)
"Tell me then, O Critias, if any decision [of the ruler] has its seat in anger pride or vanity, will it not be multiplied a thousand fold in its effects upon the citizenry." (The CRITIAS)
ARISTOTLE:
"We must not listen to those who tell us being men to think human thoughts, and being mortal to think mortal thoughts, but must put on immortality as much as possible, and to strain every nerve to live according to that best part of us, which, though small in bulk, yet much more in its power and honor surpasses all else." (NICHOMACHEAN ETHICS)
KANT:
"Two things awe me the most: the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me." (CRITIQUE OF PRACTICAL REASON).
KIERKEGAARD:
"All I ask of life is a single Truth -- a Truth that is True for me -- a Truth for which I can live, and for which I can die" (JOURNALS)
HAWKING.
"The enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge."
(Interview).
- All hatLv 77 years ago
I have two:
1) When I love, I know me. I know you. I know everyone. Erich Fromm, in The Art of Loving.
2) I smiled in our passing and left no footprint, tho I'd have accepted a tattoo of the moment myself. not attributed
- A PLv 67 years ago
I rather like this quote by Bertrand Russell " What I want to know is, when I am thinking, am I studying the contents of my mind?" This quote seems rather paradoxical, and yet random thoughts are all we have.
