Philosophieren Quotes & Sayings

God is what man finds that is divine in himself. It is the best way man can behave in the ordinary occasions of life, and the farthest point to which man can stretch himself. — Max Lerner

We don't like checklists. They can be painstaking. They're not much fun. But I don't think the issue here is mere laziness. There's something deeper, more visceral going on when people walk away not only from saving lives but from making money. It somehow feels beneath us to use a checklist, an embarrassment. It runs counter to deeply held beliefs about how the truly great among us - those we aspire to be - handle situations of high stakes and complexity. The truly great are daring. They improvise. They do not have protocols and checklists. Maybe our idea of heroism needs updating. — Atul Gawande

RECURSION [Now rare or oh.s. 16261. A backward movement, return. — William F. Clocksin

If he weren't a stick his own self, I'd say he had a stick up his butt. — Tom Robbins

In a crisis, the man worth his salt is the man who meets the needs of the situation in whatever way is necessary. — Theodore Roosevelt

Here is what happens in middle age: Some friends and acquaintances who were merely eccentric for years become unmistakably mad. — Jenny Offill

Wilson defines biophilia as the urge to affiliate with other forms of life. — Richard Louv

philosophy is not a lexicon, it is not concerned with "word-meanings", it does not seek a verbal substitute for the world we see, it does not transform it into something said, it does not install itself in the order of the said or of the written as does the logician in the proposition, the poet in the word, or the musician in the music. It is the things themselves, from the depths of their silence, that it wishes to bring to expression. — Maurice Merleau Ponty