“Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.”
– Bertrand Russell, The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell
Philosophy
Instinct to think
Category: quote
“No philosopher understands his predecessors until he has re-thought their thought in his own…”
“No philosopher understands his predecessors until he has re-thought their thought in his own contemporary terms.”
“History is not the soil in which happiness grows. The periods of happiness in it are the blank pages…”
“History is not the soil in which happiness grows. The periods of happiness in it are the blank pages of history.”
– Hegel
“It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.”
“It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.”
– Aristotle, Metaphysics
“The unconscious is to not remember what one knows…”
“The unconscious is to not remember what one knows…”
– ’La méprise du sujet supposé savoir…’
Lacan, Jaques (2001). Autres Ecrits.
“Either we have no dreams or our dreams are interesting. One must learn to be awake in the same…”
“Either we have no dreams or our dreams are interesting. One must learn to be awake in the same fashion: either not at all, or in an interesting manner.”
– Friedrich Nietzsche
“What we observe is not nature herself, but nature exposed to our method of questioning.”
“What we observe is not nature herself, but nature exposed to our method of questioning.”
– Werner Heisenberg
“Either we have no dreams or our dreams are interesting. One must learn to be awake in the same…”
“Either we have no dreams or our dreams are interesting. One must learn to be awake in the same fashion: either not at all, or in an interesting manner.”
– Friedrich Nietzsche
“The body is our general medium for having a world.”
“The body is our general medium for having a world.”
– Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Phenomenology of Perception
“There are, indeed, things that cannot be put into words. They make themselves manifest. They are…”
“There are, indeed, things that cannot be put into words. They make themselves manifest. They are what is mystical.”
– Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
