#phil

Les hommes construisent trop de murs et pas assez de ponts. ↗

— Isaac Newton

#philosophy #men

For scholars and laymen alike it is not philosophy but active experience in mathematics itself that can alone answer the question: What is mathematics? ↗

— Richard Courant

#alike #alone #answer #experience #itself

The philosophers of the Middle Ages demonstrated both that the Earth did not exist and also that it was flat. Today they are still arguing about whether the world exists, but they no longer dispute about whether it is flat. ↗

— Vilhjalmur Stefansson

#ages #also #arguing #both #demonstrated

I was born in Philadelphia and currently live in Minneapolis. I write for both children and adults. ↗

— Kate DiCamillo

#both #children #currently #i #i was born

It does not follow, because our ancestors made so many errors of fact and mixed them with their religion, that we should therefore leave off being religious at all. By being religious we establish ourselves in possession of ultimate reality at the only points at which reality is given us to guard. Our responsible concern is with our private destiny, after all. ↗

— William James

#religion #spirituality #experience

Before I joined the project most of the English people with whom I had made personal contacts were left wing and affected to some degree or other by the same kind of philosophy. ↗

— Klaus Fuchs

#before #contacts #degree #english #english people

The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness. ↗

— John Kenneth Galbraith

#conservative #engaged #exercises #justification #man

The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#government #next #philosophy #room #school

All this is applicable to the intellectual faculties of man. There is a considerable difference between one person and another as regards these faculties, as is well known to philosophers. ↗

— Maimonides

#applicable #between #considerable #difference #faculties

We are tainted by modern philosophy which has taught us that all is good, whereas evil has polluted everything and in a very real sense all is evil, since nothing is in its proper place. ↗

— Joseph de Maistre

#evil #good #modern #nothing #philosophy