Quotes Flashcards
Simon Blackburn (Life)
A lot of life is indeed a matter of raising more hogs to buy more land to raise more hogs to buy more land
Simon Blackburn (Ideas)
The world is full of ideas and a becoming sense of their power, their difficulty, their frailties and their fallibility cannot be the least thing it needs
Andrew Wiles
That particular Odyssey is over. My mind is at rest
G.H Hardy (Maths)
Immortality is a silly word, but probably a mathematician has the best chance at it
G.H Hardy (Majority)
It is not worth an intelligent man’s time to be in the majority. By definition, there are already enough people to do that
Niebuhr
Every time I find the meaning of life they change it
William James
My first act of free will shall be to believe in free will
Daniel Klein (Existence Precedes Essence)
The idea that life’s meaning is not something to look for but something to create myself feels right to me. In fact, it seems absolutely essential.
Nietzsche
The secret of the great fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment of existence is to live dangerously
Jean Paul Sartre (Ennui)
Nothing happens while you live, the scenery changes, people come in and go out that’s all. There are no beginnings. Days tacked onto day without rhyme or reason, an interminable, monotonous addition.
David Hume
The life of a an is of no greater importance to the universe than that of an oyster
Samuel Beckett
ESTRAGON: We always find something, eh Didi, to give us the impression we exist.
VLADIMIR: Yes, yes we’re magicians
John Stewart Mill
A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction
Seneca the Younger
Even while they teach, men learn
Aristotle
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence,then, is not a act but a habit.
Lewis Carol, Alice
Why sometimes I’ve believed s six impossible things before breakfast
Jean Paul Sartre (Freedom)
Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does
Jean Paul Sartre (Loneliness)
If you are lonely when you are alone, you are in bad company
Peter Singer
If it is in our power to prevent something bad from happening, without thereby sacrificing anything of comparable moral importance, we ought, morally to do it.
Bertrand Russell
The man who has no tincture of philosophy goes through life imprisoned in the prejudices derived from common sense
Karl Marx
Philosophers seek to understand the world, whereas the point was to change it.
Jean Paul Sartre (Signs)
For the decipherment of the sign, however, he bears the entire responsibility
Pascal
Why here rather than there, why now rather than then
Pythagoras (Freedom)
No one is free who has not obtained the empire of himself
Pythagoras (Words)
The oldest, shortest words — “yes” and “no” — are those which require the most thought
Pythagoras (Music)
There is geometry in the humming of the strings, there is music in the spacing of the spheres
