Great Philosophers Quotes

• El amor: Una locura temporal que se cura con el matrimonio.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Amor, Divertido, Matrimonio

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). "The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary", p.155, University of Georgia Press

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  No hay más remedio para el amor que amar más.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Amor, Vida, Ruptura

  Henry David Thoreau, Jeffrey S. Cramer (2007). "Yo a mí mismo: An Annotated Selection from the Journal of Henry D. Thoreau", p.12, Yale University Press

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• Another important historical factor is the fact that this already very simple religion was further simplified and purified by the early philosophers of ancient China. Our first great philosopher was a founder of naturalism; and our second great philosopher was an agnostic.

  Hu Shih

  Simple, Historical, Religion

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• The great philosophers and the great works are standards for the selection of what is essential. Everything that we do in studying the history of philosophy ultimately serves their better understanding.

  Karl Jaspers

  Philosophy, Understanding, Essentials

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• A great philosopher has stated that the worst evil of poverty is, that it makes folks ridiculous; by which, I hope, he only means that, as in the above case, it places them in incongruous positions.

  James Payn

  Mean, Evil, Poverty

  James Payn (1882). "Sammlung"

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• Lo que los grandes filósofos hacen por nosotros no es entregarnos un sistema que sirva para todo. Se trata de iluminar y clarificar algún aspecto especial de la vida, de suministrar herramientas conceptuales que realicen cierto tipo de trabajo necesario. Por muy amplia que sea esa área de trabajo, nunca es el todo, y todas las ideas pierden su poder adecuado cuando se utilizan fuera de su contexto apropiado. Por eso un gran filósofo no desplaza necesariamente a otro, por eso hay sitio para todos ellos y para muchos más que aún no tenemos.

  Mary Midgley

  Light, Hands, Ideas

  Mary Midgley (2011). “The Myths We Live By”, p.223, Taylor & Francis

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• The complexities of adult life get in the way of the truth. The great philosophers have always been able to clear away the complexities and see simple distinctions - simple once they are stated, vastly difficult before. If we are to follow them we too must be childishly simple in our questions - and maturely wise in our replies.

  Mortimer Adler

  Wise, Simple, Adults

  Mortimer J. Adler, Charles Van Doren (2014). “How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading”, p.265, Simon and Schuster

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• That great philosopher anonymous once said, never argue with a fool. People might not know the difference.

  Tucker Carlson

  Differences, People, Might

  "The Situation" with Tucker Carlson, www.nbcnews.com. December 15, 2005.

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• I read all the great philosophers but most people just hear what they want to hear and it makes it easy for them to brand us devil worshippers.

  Marilyn Manson

  People, Devil, Want

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• Así que incluso estas etapas de progresión, ya sea tu carrera o lo que sea, llegas a alguna parte, pero luego siempre trae consigo una nueva serie de problemas que son insatisfacciones relativas hasta cierto punto. Creo que fue un gran filósofo quien dijo una vez: "Más dinero, más problemas".

  Steve Zissis

  Pensamiento, carreras, temas

  "Amanda Peet y Steve Zissis hablan de lo que depara la segunda temporada de Togetherness". Entrevista con Gwen Ihnat, www.avclub.com. 21 de febrero de 2016.

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• The great philosophers of the 17th and 18th centuries did not think that epistemological questions floated free of questions about how the mind works. Those philosophers took a stand on all sorts of questions which nowadays we would classify as questions of psychology, and their views about psychological questions shaped their views about epistemology, as well they should have.

  Hilary Kornblith

  Thinking, Views, Should Have

  Fuente: www.3ammagazine.com

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• I have a general moral: great philosophers may be great, but that is not a reason to follow them. Don't be a follower. Work it out for yourself.

  Tim Crane

  Followers, May, Philosopher

  Fuente: www.3ammagazine.com

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• It would be fun too to put some of the great philosophers and political scientists of the past couple centuries into a time machine, have them look at the world today, and see what they think. Imagine Schumpeter, Malthus, Hobbes, Nietzsche, Marx, and more! That would be good fun.

  Scott D. Anthony

  Couple, Fun, Past

  Fuente: bobmorris.biz

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• Kantians are saddled with absolutist views, Aristotelians are accused of vagueness, and there is almost no horror to which Consequentialists are innocent of, according to some critics. While all these families of views have been victimized in these ways, Consequentialists have gotten the worst of it. I think this may have something to do with the fact that Kant and Aristotle are acknowledged to be great philosophers, and we tend to read the greats sympathetically, while Consequentialism is a family of views not rooted in the work of a single great man to whom this kind of deference is owed.

  Dale Jamieson

  Men, Thinking, Views

  Fuente: www.3ammagazine.com

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• Good comedians are great philosophers.

  Reggie Watts

  Comedian, Philosopher

  Fuente: www.avclub.com

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• [Benjamin] Franklin may be a great philosopher, [John Adams] told his diary in 1779, but "as a Legislator in America he has done very little."

  Gordon S. Wood

  America, Diaries, Done

  Fuente: www.theimaginativeconservative.org

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• I'm the best promoter in the world because I haven't taken a day off work since I left the penitentiary, and because I have read all the great philosophers like St. Thomas Aquinine.

  Don King

  Taken, Boxing, Days Off

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• I think you must remember that a writer is a simple-minded person to begin with and go on that basis. He's not a great mind, he's not a great thinker, he's not a great philosopher, he's a story-teller.

  Erskine Caldwell

  Escribir, Pensar, Sencillo

  Erskine Caldwell (1988). “Conversations with Erskine Caldwell”, p.51, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• As the great philosopher George Santayana would have said, 'those who cannot remember the past . . . should simply read Jan Van Meter's Tippecanoe and Tyler Too.' Van Meter's greatest hits collection of slogans is the catchiest ever retelling of American history. It's like the greatest minds of Madison Avenue sat down to write a history book. They don't make sound bites like they used to!

  Mo Rocca

  Libro, Escritura, Pasado

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• Antiquity was often delighted to cast a halo of mythical glory around its illustrious names. The immortal works of this great philosopher seemed to entitle him to more than mortal honors. A legend into the authenticity of which we will abstain from inquiring, asserted that his mother, Perictione, a pure virgin, suffered an immaculate conception through the influence of Apollo. The god declared to Ariston, to whom she was about to be married, the parentage of the child.

  John William Draper

  Madre, hijos, nombres

  John William Draper (1876). “History of the Intellectual Development of Europe”, p.151

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• A great philosopher in the wrong is like a beacon on the reefs which says to seamen: steer clear of me.

  Jacques Maritain

  Philosopher, Beacons, Clear

  Jacques Maritain (2015). “On the Use of Philosophy: Three Essays”, p.5, Princeton University Press

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• El estudiante que quiere construir su conocimiento sobre bases sólidas, y proceder por grados justos a los pináculos de la verdad, es dirigido por el gran filósofo de Francia para comenzar dudando de su propia existencia. Del mismo modo, quien quiera completar cualquier empresa ardua e intrincada, debe, tan pronto como su imaginación pueda enfriarse después del primer resplandor de esperanza, poner ante sus propios ojos todas las posibles vergüenzas que puedan retrasarlo o derrotarlo. Primero debe cuestionar la probabilidad de éxito, y luego esforzarse por eliminar las objeciones que ha planteado.

  Samuel Johnson

  Eye, Imagination, Doubt

  Samuel Johnson (1825). “The Rambler: A Periodical Paper, Published in 1750, 1751, 1752”, p.77

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• Early morning, the orange sun is slowly rising, shining forth in empty luminous clarity. The mind and the sky are one, the sun is rising in the vast space of primordial awareness, and there is just this. Yasutani Roshi once said, speaking of satori, that it was the most precious realization in the world, because all the great philosophers had tried to understand ultimate reality but had failed to do so, yet with satori or awakening all of your deepest questions are finally answered: it's just this.

  Ken Wilber

  Morning, Reality, Sky

  Ken Wilber (2000). “One Taste”, p.105, Shambhala Publications

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• La única forma de conquistar algo de verdad, como te dirán todos los grandes filósofos y genetistas, es amarlo.

  Christopher McDougall

  Way, Philosopher, Conquer

  Christopher McDougall (2010). “Born to Run: The hidden tribe, the ultra-runners, and the greatest race the world has never seen”, p.125, Profile Books

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• Las generaciones futuras podrán juzgar o no a Wittgenstein como uno de los grandes filósofos. Sin embargo, aunque no lo hagan, es seguro que siempre contará como una de las grandes personalidades de la filosofía. Desde nuestra perspectiva, es fácil confundir a uno con el otro; cuál es, el tiempo lo dirá.

  A.C. Grayling

  Filosofía, Error, Perspectiva

  A. C. Grayling (1988). "Wittgenstein", Oxford University Press, EE.UU.

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