“Life is like a sewer—what you get out of it depends on what you put into it.” It’s always seemed to me that this is precisely the sort of dynamic, positive thinking that we so desperately need today in these trying times of crisis and universal brouhaha.
—Tom Lehrer
Yes, Socrates himself is particularly missed …
—The Philosophy Department of the University of Walamaloo
Veritatem inquirenti, semel in vita de omnibus, quantum fieri potest, esse dubitandum. In order to seek truth, it is necessary once in the course of our life, to doubt, as far as possible, of all things.
—Rene Descartes
Wonder is the feeling of a philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.
—Plato
Logic takes care of itself; all we have to do is to look and see how it does it.
—Ludwig Wittgenstein
Abstraktionen in der Wirklichkeit geltend machen, heißt Wirklichkeit zerstören. To make abstractions hold in reality is to destroy reality.
—Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Das Bedenklichste in unserer bedenklichen Zeit ist, dass wir noch nicht denken. The most thought-provoking thing in our thought-provoking time is that we are still not thinking.
—Martin Heidegger
