History Of Philosophy Quotes

“The chief end of man is to glorify God and enjoy Him forever”
― Westminster Shorter Catechism

“Myths, legends and stories are the signposts previous generations have left us so we don't have to figure out our own personal journey in solitude!

They have to be metaphorical, because their interpretation will be different for each individual life!”
― Fred Van Lente, Action Philosophers! Giant-Sized Thing, Vol. 1

“Oracle of Delphi Speaks:
In my deep mystery I breathe
your fragrance swirling in
your odourless soul
I return your mystery
revealing your destiny deep in
the seed of your God Self”
― Ramon William Ravenswood, Icons Speak

“What I have described as a blind spot is not a mere oversight on Sellars's part. I think it reflects Sellars's attempt to combine two insights: first, that meaning and intentionality come into view only in a context that is normatively organized, and, second, that reality as it is contemplated by the sciences of nature is norm-free. The trouble is that Sellars thinks the norm-free reality disclosed by the natural sciences is the only location for genuine relations to actualities. That is what leads to the idea that placing the mind in nature requires abstracting from aboutness.

Now Aquinas, writing before the rise of modern science, is immune to the attractions of that norm-free conception of nature. And we should not be too quick to regard this as wholly a deficiency in his thinking. (Of course in all kinds of ways it is a deficiency.) There is a live possibility that, at least in one respect, Thomistic philosophy of mind is superior to Sellarsian philosophy of mind, just because Aquinas lacks the distinctively modern conception of nature that underlies Sellars's thinking. Sellars allows his philosophy to be shaped by a conception that is characteristic of his own time, and so misses an opportunity to learn something from the past.”
― John Henry McDowell, Having the World in View: Essays on Kant, Hegel, and Sellars

“With subjectivism in philosophy, anarchism in politics goes hand in hand.
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― Bertrand Russell

“The Bible is the greatest literature of all times.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!

“Today they think my ideas are hysterical . Tomorrow they will consider them historical.”
― Amy Fernandes

“History always acts as an umbilical cord of human civilization. Days of yore have always answered the bewildering paradoxes and enigmas of the world. So, its always better to have a glance of the past before entering any uncharted territory.”
― RamkrishnaGuru

“examination of its own history and of the forms of thought given the name “philosophy” indicates that “philosophy” has itself borne many fundamentally different meanings through the years, and from one school or movement to another.”
― Gregory B. Sadler

“Wrangling about precisely what constitutes genuine philosophy, proper philosophical practice, method, and aims is an important part of modern philosophy’s content and heritage”
― Gregory B. Sadler

“If the attitude of many non-Catholic modern philosophers toward Catholic thought could be summarized in a single sentence, it would be: It has been tried, it has produced its definitive results, which have been found lacking, and now its time is past”
― Gregory B. Sadler

“History shapes the lives of all men, women and children ... sometimes unraveling humanity into an undesired mess.”
― Lynda I Fisher

“The rate spread of EBOLA VIRUS in West Africa, is big tragedy. It is a fatal disease in the history of the world. Intensive education (formal and informal approaches) of the citizens of African can help prevent the spread. International cooperation is urgently needed to combat the EBOLA virus.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“Science does nothing for man spiritually, and organized religion demands blind faith in illogical liturgy that was never meant to be taken literally!”
― Fred Van Lente, Action Philosophers! Giant-Sized Thing, Vol. 1

“In the history of the world, we have left our footprints by our unique stories.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind

“The idea of writing the history of philosophy as philosophy began with Hegel’s influence in Germany, and then it spread to France and England, and histories of philosophies began to appear everywhere in Europe and America.”
― Seyyed Hossein Nasr, در جست‌وجوی امر قدسي

“Every body has role to play in the history of the world.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“In your travel, learn the brief history of the place visited. History is rich knowledge.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“History is rich knowledge, In your travel, learn the brief history of the place visited. .”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“It has been argued that close attention to the history of science is indispensable for doing good philosophy of science.”
― Samir Okasha, Philosophy of Science: A Very Short Introduction

“Plato, Socrates, Aristotle and many more great minds laid the groundwork for the development of modern science. Over the foundation of philosophy, history witnessed the daring ventures of human excellence by both philosophical and scientific geniuses, such as Leonardo-da-Vinci, Copernicus, Galileo, Kepler, Bacon, Darwin, Newton and so on. And the chain of reaction they triggered with their extraordinarily abnormal thinking, given their surrounding ignorance and fundamentalism, resulted into the evolution of our modern science.”
― Abhijit Naskar

“We must overcome our differences and look at what unites us rather than what divides us.”
― Travis Kurtz

“When I was finishing my studies in philosophy and preparing to apply for a job, I got some advice about what to say in the interviews.. I should expect to be asked why it is worth studying the history of philosophy at all. The right answer, I was told, is that we can mine the history of philosophy to discover arguments and positions that would speak to today’s concerns... So I prepared myself to say, preferably with a straight face, that contemporary philosophers of the 1990s could learn a thing or two from my doctoral dissertation.

In my heart, I never really believed that this is the only, or even the best, rationale for studying the history of philosophy. Certainly, historical texts have contributed to contemporary debates.. Others seem almost to transcend the time they were written… But to me, much of the fascination of the historical figures is how far they were from our ways of thinking, rather than how up-to-date we can make them seem... I find it fascinating that long-dead philosophers assumed certain things to be obviously true which now seem obviously false, and that they built elaborate systems on these exotic foundations. To be useful, historical ideas don’t always need to fit neatly into our ways of thinking. They can shake us out of those ways of thinking, helping us to see that our own assumptions are a product of a specific time and place.”
― Peter Adamson, Philosophy in the Islamic World

“لا نقاش مع الحاضر دون أن نعي قصة سابقينا مع المستقبل !!”
― Hesham Nebr

“Every student of the history of philosophy assumes, tacitly or expressly, rightly or wrongly, that he knows what philosophy is or what a philosopher is. In attempting to transform the necessarily confused notion with which one starts one’s investigations, into a clear notion of philosophy, one is confronted sooner or later with what appears to be the most serious implication of the question 'what a philosopher is,' viz., the relation of philosophy to social or political life. This relation is adumbrated by the term 'Natural Law,' a term which is as indispensable as it is open to grave objections.”
― Leo Strauss, Persecution and the Art of Writing