The words of the prophets are written on the subway’s wall.
Simon and Garfunkel the Sound of Silence
Dialectical thought attains the concreteness which links the structure of thoughts to that of reality.
Herbert Marcuse
Thinking small does not deliver big
A FAO civil servant from Mali
To comprehend what is, this is the task of philosophy
Philosophy too is its own time apprehended in thoughts
George Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
I had a great experience but not as theoretical knowledge. Poetry started pouring out of my heart while I was not at all a good student of languages. The innate knowledge came through innate experience.
Babamama Salve
Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes
Ralph Waldo Emerson
If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail
Abraham Maslow
So philosophy too is its own time apprehended in thoughts
G W F Hegel the Philosophy of Right
What, then, do you mean, by the assertion that this proposition is true?
Albert Einstein
The boy was beginning to understand that intuition is really a sudden immersion of the soul into the universal current of life, where the histories of all people are connected, and we are able to know everything, because its all written there.
Paolo Coelho
We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when adults are afraid of the light.
Plato
Il est sans doute assez vain de chercher à tracer des frontières immuables entre tel groupe de notions considérées comme seules scientifiques et tel autre qui serait réservé à la philosophie.
Jean Piaget
What we observe is not nature itself but nature exposed to our method of questioning
Fritjof Capra
Ah Maitreyi, , my beloved, the Intelligence which reveals all- by what shall it be revealed? By whom shall the knower be known?
Brihhadaranyaka Upanishad
He who thinks that he knows, knows not.
Kena Upanishad
Then who are the true philosophers? He asked
“Those who love to see the truth”.
Plato The Republic
Mein Liebchen, wer darf sagen:
Ich glaub’an Gott?
Magst Priester oder weise fragen,
Und ihre Antwort scheint nur Spott
Über den Frager zu sein
Goethe Faust
The idea that nothing is true except what we comprehend is ridiculous.
Winston Churchill
What men want is not knowledge, but certainty.
Bertrand Russel
2008 :
God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.
Serenity prayer Alcoholic Anonymous