#philosophic

I have no doubt that in reality the future will be vastly more surprising than anything I can imagine. Now my own suspicion is that the Universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we can suppose. ↗

— J.B.S. Haldane

#philosophical #science #wisdom #attitude

Philosophy begins in wonder. And, at the end, when philosophic thought has done its best, the wonder remains. ↗

— Alfred North Whitehead

#best #done #end #philosophic #philosophy

The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato. ↗

— Alfred North Whitehead

#consists #european #footnotes #general #philosophical

To the extent that philosophical positions both confuse us and close doors to further inquiry, they are likely to be wrong. ↗

— E. O. Wilson

#close #confuse #doors #extent #further

One of my favorite philosophical tenets is that people will agree with you only if they already agree with you. You do not change people's minds. ↗

— Frank Zappa

#already #change #favorite #minds #only

In the discovery of secret things and in the investigation of hidden causes, stronger reasons are obtained from sure experiments and demonstrated arguments than from probable conjectures and the opinions of philosophical speculators of the common sort. ↗

— William Gilbert

#common #conjectures #demonstrated #discovery #experiments

And you finally get to a consensus, where you get a sense of what really ought to be done, and then they give it to me and then I draw it. I mean draw it in the sense, the philosophical sense. ↗

— Lawrence Halprin

#done #draw #finally #get #give

And what sort of philosophical doctrine is thi - that numbers confer unlimited rights, that they take from some persons all rights over themselves, and vest these rights in others. ↗

— Auberon Herbert

#doctrine #numbers #others #over #persons

There’s nothing fundamentally wrong with people. Given a story to enact that puts them in accord with the world, they will live in accord with the world. But given a story to enact that puts them at odds with the world, as yours does, they will live at odds with the world. Given a story to enact in which they are the lords of the world, they will act like lords of the world. And, given a story to enact in which the world is a foe to be conquered, they will conquer it like a foe, and one day, inevitably, their foe will lie bleeding to death at their feet, as the world is now. ↗

— Daniel Quinn

#philosophical #truism #death

Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty - his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#agreeable #almost #boredom #comes #excessive