Good Philosophy Quotes

• To create a healthy philosophy you should renounce metaphysics but be a good mathematician.

  Bertrand Russell

  Philosophy, Renounce, Should

  "The Collected Papers of Bertrand Russell".

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• The society which scorns excellence in plumbing as a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exalted activity will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy: neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water.

  John W. Gardner

  Philosophy, Rain, Anger

  Dr. John W. Gardner (2015). "Excelencia: Can We Be Equal And Excellent Too?", p.97, Pickle Partners Publishing.

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• An excellent plumber is infinitely more admirable than an incompetent philosopher. The society which scorns excellence in plumbing because plumbing is a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exalted activity will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy. Neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water.

  John Gardner

  Philosophy, Humble, Water

  "Excellence, Can We be Equal and Excellent Too?" by John W. Gardner, (p. 86), 1961.

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• Good philosophy must exist, if for no other reason, because bad philosophy needs to be answered.

  C. S. Lewis

  Philosophy, Needs, Reason

  C. S. Lewis (1984). “The Business of Heaven: Daily Readings from C. S. Lewis”, p.226, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• A philosopher once said, 'Half of good philosophy is good grammar.'

  Aloysius Martinich

  Philosophy, Half, Philosopher

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• The result of civilization, at the Sandwich Islands and elsewhere, is found productive to the civilizers, destructive to the civilizees. It is said to be compensation--a very philosophical word; but it appears to be very much on the principle of the old game, "You lose, I win": good philosophy for the winner.

  Herman Melville

  Philosophy, Philosophical, Winning

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• En buena filosofía, la palabra causa debería reservarse al único impulso divino que ha formado el universo.

  Louis Pasteur

  Filosofía, Ateísmo, Causas

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• Oye, si es una buena filosofía, funciona. La muerte es inminente. Vive cada día como si fuera el último.

  Justina Chen

  Filosofía, Hey, Dura

  Justina Chen (2009). "North of Beautiful", p.105, Hachette UK

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• Нe [Kurt Vonnegut] pensaba que la vida era en gran medida una mierda y que simplemente teníamos que arreglárnoslas lo mejor que pudiéramos, siendo lo más amables y cariñosos posible los unos con los otros, ahora mismo. Es una filosofía bastante buena, independientemente de las creencias religiosas de cada uno.

  Michael Dirda

  Religious, Philosophy, Matter

  Fuente: www.washingtonpost.com

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• Good biology without good philosophy will be a calamity.

  George Will

  Philosophy, Biology, Calamity

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• To be ignorant and simple now-not to be able to meet the enemies on their own ground-would be to throw down our weapons and to betray our uneducated brethren who have, under God, no defense but us against the intellectual attacks of the heathen. Good philosophy must exist, if for no other reason, because bad philosophy needs to be answered.

  C. S. Lewis

  Philosophy, Simple, Intellectual

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