QUOTABLE QUOTES

<BODY> <CENTER><FONT SIZE=5><B>QUOTABLE QUOTES</B></FONT></CENTER><P> <CENTER><FONT SIZE=2>[ <A HREF="#1">PHILOSOPHY</A> | <A HREF="#2">MAN</A> | <A HREF="#3">GOOD/GOD</A> | <A HREF="#4">HOW BEST TO LIVE</A> | <A HREF="#5">METAPHYSICS</A> | <A HREF="#6">METHOD</A> | <A HREF="#7">MISCELLANEOUS</A> ]</FONT></CENTER><P> <A NAME="1"> <FONT SIZE=4><B>PHILOSOPHY</B></FONT><P> "Happy is he who has gained the wealth of divine thoughts, wretched is he whose beliefs about the gods are dark"<BR> <A HREF="../t06/t06f09.html" TARGET="_top">Empedocles</A> Quoted in Clement "Miscellanies" V xiv 140.5<P> "Philosophy has been studied for many centuries by the most outstanding minds without having produced anything which is not in dispute".<BR> <A HREF="../11/11f01.html" TARGET="_top">Descartes</A> "Meditations on First Philosophy"<P> "Do not draw the conclusion from your apprentice studies that you have nothing left to learn, but rather that you have infinitely more to learn."<BR> <A HREF="../t06/t06f19.html" TARGET="_top">Blaise Pascal</A> "The Wager" 444<P> "The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways; the point is to change it."<BR> <A HREF="../18/18f01.html" TARGET="_top">Marx</A> "Theses on Feuerbach"<P> "The most thought-provoking thing in our thought-provoking time is that we are still not thinking."<BR> <A HREF="../t06/t06f11.html" TARGET="_top">Martin Heidegger</A> "Being and Time"<P> "Only one need absorbs me: I must win clarity else I cannot live; I cannot bear life unless I can believe that I will achieve it."<BR> <A HREF="../21/21f01.html" TARGET="_top">Husserl</A> "The Crisis of the European Sciences and and Transcendental Phenomenology"<P> "Philosophy, which once seemed obsolete, lives on because the moment to realize it was missed."<BR> <A HREF="../t06/t06f01.html" TARGET="_top">Theodor Adorno</A> "Negative Dialectics"<P> "Most of the propositions and questions to be found in philosophical works are not false but nonsensical."<BR> <A HREF="../22/22f01.html" TARGET="_top">Wittgenstein</A> "Tractatus 4.003"<P> <A NAME="2"> <FONT SIZE=4><B>MAN</B></FONT><P> "Man is the measure of all things."<BR> <A HREF="../t06/t06f22.html" TARGET="_top">Protagoras</A> "Truth"<P> "Having seen a small part of life, swift to die, men rise and fly away like smoke, persuaded only of what each has met with as they are driven in every direction. Who then claims to find the whole?"<BR> <A HREF="../t06/t06f09.html" TARGET="_top">Empedocles</A> B 2.1-8 Quoted in Sextus Empiricus "Against the Mathematicians" VII 122<P> "Every man carries in himself the complete pattern of human nature. Authors communicate with the world in some special and peculiar capacity; I am the first to do so with my whole being..."<BR> <A HREF="../10/10f01.html" TARGET="_top">Montaigne</A> "Essays" Book III. 2<P> "Man is naturally good..."<BR> <A HREF="../14/14f01.html" TARGET="_top">Rousseau</A> "Discourse on the Origins of Inequality"<P> "All value that a man has, all spiritual reality, he has only through the state... No individual can step beyond it; he can separate himself certainly from other individuals but not from the Spirit of the People."<BR> <A HREF="../16/16f01.html" TARGET="_top">Hegel</A> "Reason in History"<P> "The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles."<BR> <A HREF="../18/18f01.html" TARGET="_top">Marx</A> "The Communist Manifesto"<P> "When man no longer regards himself as evil he ceases to be so."<BR> <A HREF="../19/19f01.html" TARGET="_top">Nietzsche</A> "Daybreak"<P> "Behold I teach you the superman: he is this lightning, he is this madness..."<BR> <A HREF="../19/19f01.html" TARGET="_top">Nietzsche</A> "Thus Spoke Zarathustra" (I Prologue 3)<P> "The most immediate, and for practical purposes, the most significant causes of every case of neurotic illness are to be found in factors arising from sexual life."<BR> <A HREF="../20/20f01.html" TARGET="_top">Freud</A> "Sexuality in the Aetiology of the Neuroses"<P> "Hell is other people."<BR> <A HREF="../23/23f01.html" TARGET="_top">Jean Paul Sartre</A><P> "Man is condemned forever to be free."<BR> <A HREF="../23/23f01.html" TARGET="_top">Sartre</A> "Age of Reason"<P> <A NAME="3"> <FONT SIZE=4><B>GOOD/GOD</B></FONT><P> "This one thing is wisdom, to understand Logos as that which guides the world everywhere... There is a Logos that exists forever and is universal, but men fail to comprehend it. All things come about in accordance with this Logos."<BR> <A HREF="../02/02f01.html" TARGET="_top">Heracleitus</A> quoted in Diogenes Laertes<P> "In the world of knowledge, the idea of the Good appears last of all, and is seen only with an effort; and when seen, is also inferred to be the universal author of all things beautiful and right, parent of light and the lord of the light of this visible world, and the source of truth and reason in the intellectual."<BR> <A HREF="../04/04f01.html" TARGET="_top">Plato</A> "Republic"<P> The Prime Mover - "a living being, eternal, most good".<BR> <A HREF="../05/05f01.html" TARGET="_top">Aristotle</A> "Metaphysics"<P> "The One as transcending Intellect, transcends knowing... Knowing is a unitary thing, but defined; the first is One, but undefined."<BR> <A HREF="../t06/t06f20.html" TARGET="_top">Plotinus</A> "Enneads"<P> "The Logos made flesh"<BR> <A HREF="../09/09f01.html" TARGET="_top">Augustine</A> "Confessions" 7.20<P> "In God alone, essence (what He is) and existence (that he is) coincide."<BR> <A HREF="../t06/t06f04.html" TARGET="_top">Ibn Sina</A> (Avicenna)<P> "God is the nonhuman and transcendent first cause of all being."<BR> <A HREF="../t06/t06f03.html" TARGET="_top">Ibn Rushd</A> "The Incoherence of the Incoherence"<P> "Ultimate beatitude consists in the vision of the divine essence."<BR> <A HREF="../t06/t06f02.html" TARGET="_top">St Thomas Aquinas</A> "Summa Theologica"<P> "I am not, then, a necessary being. I am therefore neither eternal nor infinite. But I clearly see that there is in nature a necessary being, eternal and infinite."<BR> <A HREF="../t06/t06f19.html" TARGET="_top">Blaise Pascal</A> "The Wager" 443<P> "Whatever is, is in God."<BR> <A HREF="../12/12f01.html" TARGET="_top">Baruch Spinoza</A> "Ethics"<P> "It follows that every soul is a world apart, independent of everything else except God."<BR> <A HREF="../t06/t06f16.html" TARGET="_top">Gottfried Leibniz</A> Letter to Arnauld<P> "My systematic condensation of the true philosophy of history is summed up in this fundamental aphorism - Man becomes more and more religious... For 20 centuries, the West has been seeking a universal religion, no more able to abandon it than to establish it... The final religion demands as a necessary basis of human order, the entire subordination of man to Humanity."<BR> <A HREF="../17/17f01.html" TARGET="_top">Comte</A> "Cours de Philosophie Positive"<P> "God is dead."<BR> <A HREF="../19/19f01.html" TARGET="_top">Nietzsche</A> "The Gay Science"<P> "The very meaning of the conception of God lies in those differences which must be made in our experience if the conception be true."<BR> <A HREF="../t06/t06f14.html" TARGET="_top">William James</A> "The Will to Believe"<P> <A NAME="4"> <FONT SIZE=4><B>HOW BEST TO LIVE</B></FONT><P> "To be temperate is the greatest excellence. And wisdom is speaking the truth and acting with knowledge in accordance with nature."<BR> <A HREF="../02/02f01.html" TARGET="_top">Heracleitus</A> B112 quoted in the Anthology of John Stobeaus<P> "Virtue is knowledge."<BR> <A HREF="../03/03f01.html" TARGET="_top">Socrates</A> in Platošs "Apology"<P> "May I consider wisdom to be riches." <A HREF="../03/03f01.html" TARGET="_top">Socrates</A> Part of a prayer at the end of Plato's "Phaedrus"<P> "And this very thing constitutes the virtue of the happy man and the smooth current of life - when all actions promote the harmony of the spirit dwelling in the individual man with the will of that which orders the universe."<BR> Chrysippus (a disciple of <A HREF="../06/06f01.html" TARGET="_top">Zeno</A>)<P> "Assaults of adversity do not affect the spirit of a stalwart man. He maintains his poise and assimilates all that falls to his lot to his own complexion, for he is more potent than the external world. I do not maintain that he is insensible to externals, but that he overcomes them. Unperturbed and serene, he rises to meet every obstacle. All adversity he regards as exercise."<BR> Seneca "On Providence"<P> "If a good man had foreknowledge of what would happen, he would cooperate in his own sickness and death and mutilation, since he knows that these things are assigned to him according to the universal arrangement, and that the whole is superior to the part."<BR> <A HREF="../t06/t06f17.html" TARGET="_top">Marcus Aurelius</A> "Meditations"<P> "Death is nothing to us; for the body, when it has been resolved into the elements, has no feeling and that which has no feeling is nothing to us."<BR> <A HREF="../07/07f01.html" TARGET="_top">Epicurus</A> "Sovran Maxims 2" in Diogenes Laertes X.139<P> "Man loses all semblance of mortality by living in the midst of immortal blessings." <A HREF="../07/07f01.html" TARGET="_top">Epicurus</A> "Sovran Maxims 2" in Diogenes Laertes X.135<P> "Love God, serve God and do what you will."<BR> <A HREF="../09/09f01.html" TARGET="_top">St Augustine</A><P> "The conduct of our lives is the true reflection of our thoughts."<BR> <A HREF="../10/10f01.html" TARGET="_top">Montaigne</A> "Essays"<P> "Love towards a thing eternal and infinite alone feeds the mind with pleasure, and it is free from all pain..."<BR> <A HREF="../12/12f01.html" TARGET="_top">Spinoza</A> "Ethics - Treatise on the Correction of Understanding"<P> "Act as if the maxim of your action were to become by your will a Universal Law of Nature."<BR> <A HREF="../15/15f01.html" TARGET="_top">Kant</A> "Critique of Practical Reason"<P> "Over his own body and mind, the individual is sovereign... the only purpose for which power can be rightly exercised over any member of a civilised community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others."<BR> <A HREF="../t06/t06f18.html" TARGET="_top">John Stuart Mill</A> "On Liberty"<P> <A NAME="5"> <FONT SIZE=4><B>METAPHYSICS</B></FONT><P> "It is both necessary to say and think that being is: for to be is possible, and nothingness is not possible."<BR> <A HREF="../01/01f01.html" TARGET="_top">Parmenides</A> "The Way of Truth" (Fr 6)<P> "All things come into being by conflict of opposites, and the sum of things flows like a stream."<BR> <A HREF="../02/02f01.html" TARGET="_top">Heracleitus</A> (Diogenes Laertius IX. 8,9)<P> "The Mind seems to be an independent substance implanted within the soul and to be incapable of being destroyed."<BR> <A HREF="../05/05f01.html" TARGET="_top">Aristotle</A> (408 b 18)<P> "My writing is an answer to the partisans of the many... with a view to showing that the hypothesis of the many, if examined in sufficient detail, leads to even more absurd results that the hypothesis of the One."<BR> <A HREF="../t06/t06f26.html" TARGET="_top">Zeno</A> in Plato's Dialogue "Parmenides"<P> "I am. I exist - that is certain; but for how long do I exist? For as long as I think; for it might perhaps happen, if I totally ceased thinking, that I would, at the same time, cease to be."<BR> <A HREF="../11/11f01.html" TARGET="_top">Descartes</A> "Meditations on First Philosophy"<P> "To be is to be perceived."<BR> <A HREF="../t06/t06f06.html" TARGET="_top">George Berkeley</A> "Three Dialogues"<P> "Mind is the law-giver to nature."<BR> <A HREF="../15/15f01.html" TARGET="_top">Kant</A> "Critique of Pure Reason"<P> "My philosophy is the first which has come to place the essence of man, not in consciousness, but in the will, which is not necessarily linked with consciousness."<BR> <A HREF="../t06/t06f25.html" TARGET="_top">Arthur Schopenhauer</A> "The World as Will and Representation", Vol.2, section 18.<P> "The mind and only the mind is a being in itself and for itself; it is autonomous and capable of being handled in a rational, genuinely and thoroughly scientific way... Thus the science of nature presupposes the science of the mind."<BR> <A HREF="../21/21f01.html" TARGET="_top">Edmund Husserl</A> "Philosophy and the Crisis of European Man"<P> "The necessary condition for our saying <B>not</B> is that non-being be a perpetual presence in us and outside of us, that nothingness haunts our being."<BR> <A HREF="../23/23f01.html" TARGET="_top">Sartre</A> "Being and Nothingness"<P> <A NAME="6"> <FONT SIZE=4><B>METHOD (OR MADNESS?)</B></FONT><P> "Achilles can never overtake the tortoise..."<BR> Attributed to <A HREF="../01/01f01.html" TARGET="_top">Parmenides</A><P> "If you do not expect the unexpected you will not discover it; for it cannot be tracked down and offers no passage."<BR> <A HREF="../02/02f01.html" TARGET="_top">Heracleitus</A> B18 quoted in Clement "Miscellanies" II iv 17-8)<P> "All scientific truths are necessarily and universally true and deal with the general not the particular. Human knowledge of these scientific truths is based on repeated sense experiences which reason allows a universal to form in the mind."<BR> <A HREF="../05/05f01.html" TARGET="_top">Aristotle</A> "Posterior Analytics"<P> "Confirmation of scientific truths requires the use of incontestable forms of argument. A small class of logically valid arguments, the categorical syllogisms, can be used to confirm the truth of scientific propositions."<BR> <A HREF="../05/05f01.html" TARGET="_top">Aristotle</A> "Prior Analytics"<P> "But come, observe with every device in the way in which each thing is clear: neither hold sight higher in trust than hearing or resounding hearing above the clarities of tongue, nor let any of the other limbs by which thought has a way be deprived of trust, but think in the way in which each thing is clear."<BR> <A HREF="../t06/t06f09.html" TARGET="_top">Empedocles</A> B 2.1-8 Quoted in Sextus Empiricus "Against the Mathematicians" VII 125<P> "I made strenuous efforts on behalf of the preservation of the free choice of the human will, but the grace of God defeated me."<BR> <A HREF="../09/09f01.html" TARGET="_top">Augustine</A> "Confessions Book 8"<P> "I resolved to pretend that everything that had ever entered my mind was as false as the figments of my dreams."<BR> <A HREF="../11/11f01.html" TARGET="_top">Descartes</A> "Meditations on First Philosophy"<P> "I have taken all knowledge to be my province."<BR> <A HREF="../t06/t06f05.html" TARGET="_top">Francis Bacon</A> "The Great Instauration"<P> "As the science of man is the only solid foundation for the other sciences, so the only solid foundation we can give this science itself must be laid on experience and observation."<BR> <A HREF="../t06/t06f13.html" TARGET="_top">David Hume</A> Introduction to "A Treatise of Human Nature"<P> "All that we know comes from sense experience, and from reflection upon experience."<BR> <A HREF="../13/13f01.html" TARGET="_top">John Locke</A> "Essay Concerning Human Understanding"<P> "Appearances are to be regarded as being, one and all, representations only, not things-in-themselves... time and space are therefore only sensible forms of our intuition, not determinations as existing by themselves..."<BR> <A HREF="../15/15f01.html" TARGET="_top">Kant</A> "Critique of Pure Reason" A 369<P> "Each of our leading conceptions, each branch of our knowledge, passes through three different theoretical conditions: the theological or fictitious, the metaphysical or abstract, the scientific or positive. This fundamental law should henceforth be, in my opinion, the starting point of all philosophical researches about man and society."<BR> <A HREF="../17/17f01.html" TARGET="_top">Comte</A> "Cours de Philosophie Positive"<P> "The mind and only the mind is a being in itself and for itself; it is autonomous and capable of being handled in a rational, genuinely and thoroughly scientific way... Thus the science of nature presupposes the science of the mind."<BR> <A HREF="../21/21f01.html" TARGET="_top">Edmund Husserl</A> "Philosophy and the Crisis of European Man"<P> "The correct method in philosophy would really be the following: to say nothing except what can be said, ie. the propositions of natural science - ie. something that has nothing to do with philosophy."<BR> <A HREF="../22/22f01.html" TARGET="_top">Ludwig Wittgenstein</A> "Tractatus"<P> "The anthropologist goes forward, seeking to attain, through the conscious, of which he is always aware, more and more of the unconscious."<BR> <A HREF="../24/24f01.html" TARGET="_top">Claude Lévi-Strauss</A> in introduction to "Structural Anthropology"<P> "Such is how I view myself, a traveller, an archaeologist of space, trying in vain to restore the exotic."<BR> <A HREF="../24/24f01.html" TARGET="_top">Claude Lévi-Strauss</A> "Tristes Tropiques" 44<P> <A NAME="7"> <FONT SIZE=4><B>MISCELLANEOUS </B></FONT><P> "No society, no cohabitation can be pleasant or lasting without folly..."<BR> <A HREF="../t06/t06f10.html" TARGET="_top">Erasmus</A> "Praise of Folly"<P> "The truth can be spoken only by one who rests in it."<BR> <A HREF="../22/22f01.html" TARGET="_top">Ludwig Wittgenstein</A> "Notebooks"<P> "The first thing travel has now to show us is the filth, our filth, which we have thrown in the face of humanity."<BR> <A HREF="../24/24f01.html" TARGET="_top">Claude Lévi-Strauss</A> "Tristes Tropiques" 38<P> "Consent is both the origin and the limit of power."<BR> <A HREF="../24/24f01.html" TARGET="_top">Claude Lévi-Strauss</A> "Tristes Tropiques"<P> </BODY>