Philosophy Quotes

"Action without judgment produces action without responsibility."

"The tradition of political philosophy has always been concerned with the problem of founding."

"Evil becomes banal when it ceases to be exceptional."

"We are creatures of action before we are creatures of reason."

"The banality of evil is not the absence of evil but its ordinariness."

"Thinking is the most human of all activities."

"The world becomes meaningful through our engagement with it."

"Action without responsibility leads to barbarism."

"All things finite are moments of the infinite."

"The finite cannot contain the infinite, yet the infinite expresses itself through the finite."

"Philosophy begins in wonder and returns to it."

"Philosophy is the art of asking the right questions."

"The concept of a person is not to be analysed in terms of the existence of an analytic entity, but rather in terms of the web of interconnected practices and responses that constitute our form of life."

"Ordinary language does not wear its logic on its sleeve, and the philosopher must learn to listen to what we ordinarily say."

"Persons are the basic particulars in terms of which the logical structure of our thought is to be understood."

"The ordinary use of words contains depths that the philosopher has barely begun to plumb."

"The self is not a hidden essence but a way of being in the world with others."

"The concept of causation in the human realm differs fundamentally from causation in the physical world."

"The human form of life is characterized by our capacity to question our own practices."

"The bedrock of philosophy lies not in arguments but in the practices we take for granted."

"The concept of consciousness is not solved by reducing it to neurological processes."

"The philosophical life is characterized by the willingness to question what others take for granted."

"The self is not a monad, but a nexus of relations; who we are depends on how we stand with others."

"The concept of person involves a special kind of logical complexity that we have barely begun to articulate."

"The human mind is not a container for representations, but an instrument for engaging with the world."

"To be entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise in philosophy and morality."

"Ethics is in origin the art of recommending to others the sacrifices required for cooperation with oneself."

"The purpose of philosophy is to make the familiar seem strange and the strange seem familiar."

"Every person contains within them a universe of experience."

"The I-Thou relationship is the primary word."