Tuesday, March 04, 2008

Philosophy for Dummies by Tom Morris...

knowledge= poperly justified true belief.
  • luck never made a man wise. ( Seneca)
  • do not believe hastily. (Ovid)
  • the mind is a strange machine which can combine the materials offered it in the most astonishing ways.( Bertrand Russell)
  • be led by reason. (solon)
  • doubt is the vestibule which all must pass, before they can enter into the temple of truth.( charles Caleb Colton)
  • doubt is the beginning not the end, of wisdom (george IIes)
  • the skeptic does not mean him who doubts, but him who investigates or researches, as opposed to him who assert and thinks he has found. ( Miguel de Unamumo)
  • believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact. ( Willia James)
  • the great end of life is n ot knowledge but action. (T.H. Huxley)
  • it is not enough to have a good mind. the main thing is to use it well.(Descartes)
  • to be good is noble, but to show others how to be good is nobler and no trouble.
  • goodness is easier to recognize than to define. (W.H. Auden)

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