Philosophy Rome Quotes

As you say of yourself, I too am an Epicurean. I consider the genuine (not the imputed) doctrines of Epicurus as containing everything rational in moral philosophy which Greece and Rome have left us.
[Letter to William Short, 31 October 1819] ~ Thomas Jefferson

Rome should sometimes intervene and say this or that is not in conformity with the Catholic faith. Theologians should understand that. Some theologians go too far, for example, reducing the Catholic faith to a universal philosophy. ~ Godfried Danneels

The United States, or the American Republic, has a mission, and is chosen of God for the realization of a great idea. It has been chosen not only to continue the work assigned to Greece and Rome, but to accomplish a greater work than was assigned to either. In art, it will prove false to its mission if it do not rival Greece; and in science and philosophy, if it do not surpass it. In the State, in law, in jurisprudence, it must continue and surpass Rome. ~ Orestes Brownson

But the new generation had tasted the wine of philosophy; and from this time onward the rich youth of Rome went eagerly to Athens and Rhodes to exchange their oldest faith for the newest doubts. ~ Will Durant

The entire Jesus concept, that human sacrifice should be the substratum of a moral religion of love, strikes me as incongruous. God condemned us and Jesus saved us, and they are actually the same being? Christianity is the idea that you are so abhorrent that God had to kill himself. He had to embody the human form and send himself on a bizarre suicide mission just to revoke the disgustingness of the humans he created. I balk at suggestions that these ideas dictate to the concepts of morality and love. ~ Trevor Treharne

Be kind to humanity, she is very lonely, everyone is busy with themselves. ~ Debasish Mridha

Better to be able to love than to be loveable. ~ Amanda Mosher

This example, it seems to us, suffices to show in what way the nonreligious man of modern societies is still nourished and aided by the activity of his unconscious, yet without thereby attaining to a properly religious experience and vision of the world. The unconscious offers him solutions for the difficulties of his own life, and in this way plays the role of religion, for, before making an existence a creator of values, religion ensures its integrity, From one point of view it could almost be said that in the case of those moderns who proclaim that they are nonreligious, religion and mythology are "eclipsed" in the darkness of their unconscious - which means too that in such men the possibility of reintegrating a religious vision of life lies at a great depth. Or, from the Christian point of view, it could also be said that nonreligion is equivalent to a new "fall" of man - in other words, that nonreligious man has lost the capacity to live religion consciously, and hence to understand and assume it; but that, in his deepest being, he still retains a memory of it, as, after the first "fall," his ancestor, the primordial man, retained intelligence enough to enable him to rediscover the traces of God that are visible in the world. After the first "fall," the religious sense descended to the level of the ' 'divided" consciousness"; now, after the second, it has fallen even further, into the depths of the unconscious; it has been "forgotten," Here the considerations of the hi ~ Mircea Eliade

The freshness of a smile and the fragrance of a perfume often define the personality of a woman. ~ Debasish Mridha

BARRY: Phwoar! This stuff shouldn't be available on the internet where anybody can see it.

GLENDA: Barry, what are you looking at?

BARRY: Philosophy. You should see some of the ideas floating around here.

GLENDA: As long as it's only philosophy.

BARRY: Only?! They come out with stuff that makes your hair stand on end. Look out there. What do you see?

GLENDA: I can see it's time to paint the fence.

BARRY: What fence?

GLENDA: Our fence. I don't expect you to paint next door's.

BARRY: There is no fence out there. We just think there is.

GLENDA: And I think it still needs painting.

BARRY: It's all in here. It's only the way we see things that makes them look as if they're out there. Actually everything is in our heads.

GLENDA: Barry, if you can go out there with a pot of paint and paint it, then it's out there.

BARRY: I hate it when you do that.

GLENDA: What?

BARRY: Make more sense than philosophy.

"The Second Stag Night of Doggy Wilkinson", Last of the Summer Wine", season 28 episode 1. ~ Roy Clarke

The patter of rain is a chorus of raindrops. ~ Anthony T. Hincks

Leaving for the night, it came to me. What I should have told her. Life goes on - that's what I should have said. That's what you say to people when a loved one dies. But, thinking it over, I was glad I didn't. Because maybe that's what she was afraid of. ~ Stephen King

Excuses are made by the power of weakness. Their purpose is merely a wish you have; you wish they would demolish your guilt and regret. ~ Noha Alaa El-Din

Under the old social philosophy which had governed the Middle Ages, temporal, and therefore all economic, activities were referred to an eternal standard. The production of wealth, it distribution and exchange were regulated with a view to securing the Christian life of Christian men. In two points especially was this felt: First in securing the independence of the family, which can only be done by the wide distribution of property, in others words the prevention of the growth of a proletariat; secondly, in the close connection between wealth and public function. ~ Hilaire Belloc

You talk a lot about this amazing flow of time but you hardly see it. you see a women, you think that one day she'll be old, only you don't see her grow old. But there are moments when you think you see her grow old and feel yourself growing old with her: this is the feeling of adventure. ~ Jean-Paul Sartre

Thank you is what each and everyone of us should say when we see either a sunrise or sunset.
And when we do that, maybe, just maybe the world will start to become a better place. ~ Anthony T. Hincks

I had been reading Wittgenstein. There are no philosophical problems, only linguistic misunderstandings. Was this so? If so, why write at such length about it? I could understand [his] attraction to such a philosophy. Spartan, rigorous. Surpassingly skeptical. Well, good: philosophers should be skeptical. (No one else is: the mass of mankind is credulous as a gigantic infant, willing to suck any teat.) ~ Joyce Carol Oates

Change your thoughts to change your reality. ~ Debasish Mridha

Do not pull; just attract. Do not demand; just love. ~ Debasish Mridha

[Beware of] the fallacy of misplaced concreteness [mistaking an abstraction for concrete reality, for actuality]

In the inescapable flux, there is something that abides; in the overwhelming permanence, there is an element that escapes into flux. Permanence can be snatched only out of flux; and the passing moment can find its adequate intensity only by its submission to permanence.

Error is the price we pay for progress.

In the real world it is more important that a proposition be interesting than that it be true. The importance of truth is that it adds to interest.

Creativity is the universal of universals characterizing ultimate matter of fact. It is that ultimate principle by which the many, which are the universe disjunctively, become the one actual occasion, which is the universe conjunctively. It lies in the nature of things that the many enter into complex unity.

The aim of science is to seek the simplest explanations of complex facts. We are apt to fall into the error of thinking that the facts are simple because simplicity is the goal of our quest. The guiding motto in the life of every natural philosopher should be, "Seek simplicity and distrust it."

It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious.

[From various of Whitehead's books, not only PR] ~ Alfred North Whitehead

Grammar and ordinary language are bad guides to metaphysics. A great book might be written showing the influence of syntax on philosophy. ~ Bertrand Russell

Where will they all sleep and dine? How do philosophers party? What should we print on the pillows and promotional cups? ~ Thorsten J. Pattberg

You may avoid the risk of a car accident if you avoid driving, but you will lose the joy and freedom of driving. ~ Debasish Mridha

Between the calendar and checkbook, ones priorities are laid bare. ~ L.R.W. Lee

Accept the challenge and never fear to change. ~ Debasish Mridha

Philosophy only seems to offer endless dispute, with no cakes and ale. ~ Keith Ward

Choosing not only the battle but also the timing is the best way to deal with what may occur. ~ Steven Redhead

If you're under stress, your life is complex.
Simplify your life to reduce the stress. ~ Debasish Mridha

Money can drive you, but ultimately, you decide where you want to go. ~ Debasish Mridha

Life is a mellifluous symphony for those who know how to play the music! ~ Avijeet Das

It's not the poverty of material abundance but the poverty of love makes life miserable. ~ Debasish Mridha

A complaint is a compliment of negativity. ~ Debasish Mridha

Conservatism therefore looks upon the enhancement of man's spiritual nature as the primary concern of political philosophy. Liberals, on the other hand, - in the name of a concern for "human beings" - regard the satisfaction of economic wants as the dominant mission of society. ~ Barry Goldwater

Be humble when you have but don't be hopeless when you don't. ~ Carina Yesenia Aguilar

Life is going on even if you are not on the train. ~ Debasish Mridha

A leader creates a new way to success for followers and inspires them to follow him toward the ultimate purpose. ~ Debasish Mridha

How much you love yourself will define how much others will love you. ~ Debasish Mridha

If you are happy then you are the winner in the race we call life. ~ Debasish Mridha

The best teacher is he who kindles the fire of imaginations and does not fill minds with only information. ~ Debasish Mridha

The more you say the more people know about you, make it a point that you say the most sense as little as possible ~ Morena Baloyi

Here am I shedding one of my life-skins and all they will say is, 'Bernard is spending ten days in Rome'. ~ Virginia Woolf

Ruby inherited the Perl philosophy of having more than one way to do the same thing. I inherited that philosophy from Larry Wall, who is my hero actually. I want to make Ruby users free. I want to give them the freedom to choose. ~ Yukihiro Matsumoto

The more attention we pay to the idea that reality shifts, the more we see our reality shift ~ Cynthia Sue Larson

What happened to us? It was a question that interested her. Most people seemed to believe that they were experts of their own life story. They had a set of memories that they strung like beads, and this necklace told a sensible tale. But she suspected that most of these stories would fall apart under strict examination--that, in fact, we were only peeping through a keyhole of our lives, and the majority of the truth, the reality of what happened to us, was hidden. Memories were no more solid than dreams...What happened to us? She drew smoke, considering the question. Was it possible that we would never really know? What if we were not, actually, the curators of our own lives? ~ Dan Chaon

Greatness often demands great sacrifice. ~ Debasish Mridha

Philosophy lets you imagine the infinity, and Science makes you get there. ~ Abhijit Naskar

Love is an act of courage. ~ Paulo Freire

The universe is not a world of separate things and events but is a cosmos that is connected and coherent. The physical world and spiritual experience are both aspects of the same reality and man and the universe were one ~ Alexis Karpouzos

I rather doubt that life has a meaning. If I thought perhaps it did, and I wanted to find out what its meaning is, I don't imagine I'd ask someone whose credentials consist of a PhD in philosophy. ~ Jerry Fodor

Love is the light through which we find joy and happiness. ~ Debasish Mridha