#phil

The supply of matter in the universe was never more tightly packed than it is now, or more widely spread out. For nothing is ever added to it or subtracted from it. It follows that the movement of atoms today is no different from what it was in bygone ages and always will be. So the things that have regularly come into being will continue to come into being in the same manner; they will be and grow and flourish so far as each is allowed by the laws of nature. ↗

— Titus Lucretius Carus

#lucretius #nature #philosophy #universe #age

I decided to teach because I think that any person who studies philosophy has to be involved actively. ↗

— Angela Davis

#any #because #decided #i #i think

The first step towards philosophy is incredulity. ↗

— Denis Diderot

#first step #incredulity #philosophy #step #towards

My writing, like everything I do, comes profoundly from my heart. I believe that if you follow your heart you will be successful in one way or another. Old-fashioned as that might sound, the philosophy is true. ↗

— Kim Elizabeth

#believe #comes #everything #follow #follow your heart

Philosophy is to the mind of the architect as eyesight to his steps. The Term 'genius' when applied to him simply means a man who understands what others only know about. A poet, artist or architect, necessarily 'understands' in this sense and is likely, if not careful, to have the term 'genius' applied to him; in which case he will no longer be thought human, trustworthy or companionable. Whatever may be his medium of expression he utters truth with manifest beauty of thought. If he is an architect, his building is natural. In him, philosophy and genius live by each other, but the combination is subject to popular suspicion and appellation 'genius' likely to settle him--so far as the public is concerned. ↗

— Frank Lloyd Wright

#genius #philosophy #poet #public #art

If you've got unemployment, low pay, that was just too bad. But that was the system. That was the sort of economy and philosophy against which I was fighting in the 1930s. ↗

— Barbara Castle

#bad #economy #fighting #got #i

People who love soft methods and hate iniquity forget this; that reform consists in taking a bone from a dog. Philosophy will not do it. ↗

— John Jay Chapman

#consists #dog #forget #hate #iniquity

I had a microscopic eye for the blemish, for the grain of ugliness which to me constituted the sole beauty of the object. ↗

— Henry Miller

#philosophy #beauty

Truth is the object of philosophy, but not always of philosophers. ↗

— John Churton Collins

#object #philosophers #philosophy #truth #truth is

I'm a natural piano player. So all the practicing I do at this point is in my head. If I don't play for a year, my chops aren't going to get any worse. I've spent my time playing scales, and I don't necessarily want to play any faster than I play. So everything I do at this point is more philosophical. ↗

— Harry Connick, Jr.

#chops #everything #faster #get #going