A man gazing on the stars is proverbially at the mercy of the puddles on the road.
Philosophy - Philosophers Quotes
Apparently Bentham thought that human beings had but two desires, gain and pleasure, and he accepted those desires as the facts of our condition (he hated St. Paul) and tried to make of them a philosophy whose keystone was an eloquent defence of usury. He would have been at home in New York.
What every genuine philosopher (every genuine man, in fact) craves most is Praise – although the philosophers generally call it ‘recognition’!
Now the words that he spoke seemed the wisest of philosophies There was nothing ever gained by a wet thing called a tear. When the world is too dark, and I need the light inside of me, I walk into a pub and drink fifteen pints of beer. Lyrics
If you wish to understand a philosopher, do not ask what he says, but find out what he wants.
Philosophy lives in words, but truth and fact well up in to our lives in ways that exceed verbal formulation. There is in the living act of perception always something that glimmers and twinkles and will not be caught, and for which reflection comes too late.
The more conscious a philosopher is of the weak spots of his theory, the more certain he is to speak with an air of final authority.
To live alone one must be a beast or a god, says Aristotle. Leaving out the third case: one must be both – a philosopher.
There is no escape from philosophy. The question is only whether a philosophy is conscious or not, whether it is good or bad, muddled or clear. Anyone who rejects philosophy is himself unconsciously practicing a philosophy.
Philosophy is to the real world as masturbation is to sex.
