Jean Piaget Quotes

I want to read philosophers.

Zippy accepts chaos as what it is, which is the real order of everything.

Kant introduced the concept of the negative into philosophy. Would it not also be worthwhile to try to introduce the concept of the positive into philosophy?

Simon Critchley's 'The Book of Dead Philosophers' - it's a quick thumbnail sketches of philosophers through the ages.

A 'philosophical dictionary' is not a dictionary of philosophy that you use to look up obscure thinkers or recondite terms. It is a collection of brief and pithy essays on diverse topics, informed by one vision, and usually arranged in alphabetical order.

As our domestic fowls are said to have their original in the wild pheasant of India, so our domestic thoughts have their prototypes in the thoughts of her philosophers.

The ideas within this philosophy are certainly not exclusive to any writer.

A violent order is disorder; and a great disorder is an order. These two things are one.

Socrates, in Plato, formulates ideas of order: the Iliad, like Shakespeare, knows that a violent disorder is a great order.

My speech is too fast; my oration confused; love knows no order.

Chaos can be structured as non-chaos. That we know from Jackson Pollock.

There seems to be a kind of order in the universe…in the movement of the stars and the turning of the Earth and the changing of the seasons. But human life is almost pure chaos. Everyone takes his stance, asserts his own right and feelings, mistaking the motives of others, and his own.

For Emily Dickinson every philosophical idea was a potential lover. Metaphysics is the realm of eternal seduction of the spirit by ideas.

Creativity does not derive from order but from the attempt to impose order where it does not exist, to make new connections.

One begins by plaguing oneself to no purpose in order to be true to nature, and one concludes by working quietly from one's own palette alone, and then nature is the result.

Out of Plato come all things that are still written and debated about among men of thought.

The absolute has moved into the fortress of the absurd.

The only real people are the people who never existed.

In an expanding universe, order is not really order, but merely the difference between the actual entropy exhibited and the maximum entropy possible.

I do not presume that I have found the best philosophy, I know that I understand the true philosophy.

I hate intellectual discussion. When I hear the words 'phenomenology' or 'structuralism', I reach for my buck knife.

Here is the world, sound as a nut, perfect, not the smallest piece of chaos left, never a stitch nor an end, not a mark of haste, or botching, or second thought; but the theory of the world is a thing of shreds and patches.

Men who think deeply appear to be comedians in their dealings with others because they always have to feign superficiality in order to be understood.

The difficulty in philosophy is to say no more than we know.

Vin: I don't know -- and it's all your fault, you know. I used to understand everything. Now it's all confused. Kelsier: Yes, we've messed you up right properly.