Saturday, July 7, 2012

Undecided Quotes for Philosophy Themed Deck

So, I have decided to include on each card face for a philosopher the art, his name, his birth/date dates, and a short quote. However, on a couple of the philosophers, I am debating on what quotes to use for them. Your input would be very helpful in reaching a decision! The difficulty is mostly on deciding which quote is more characteristic or unique to that philosopher, or deciding between a funny or more philosophical quote.

Friedrich Nietzsche: 1. "I know my fate. One day my name will be associated with the memory of something tremendous... I am no man, I am dynamite."

2. "Whatever has value in our world now does not have value in itself… it was we who gave and bestowed it."

Blaise Pascal: 1. "All of our reasoning ends in surrender to feeling."

2. "Belief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it proves false?"

Bertrand Russell: 1. "The rules of logic are to mathematics what those of structure are to architecture."

2. "There is no logical impossibility… that the world sprang into being five minutes ago... with a population that 'remembered' a wholly unreal past."

Karl Popper: 1. "No matter how many instances of white swans we may have observed, this does not justify the conclusion that all swans are white."

2. "Whenever a theory appears to you as the only possible one... [then] you have neither understood the theory nor the problem which it was intended to solve."

Jean Paul Sartre: 1. "Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does."

2. "If I became a philosopher… it's all been to seduce women basically."

Arthur Schopenhauer: 1. "If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would be able to endure it."

2. "The will to live everywhere preys upon itself… the human race… reveals in itself with most terrible distinctness this variance of the will with itself."

Baruch Spinoza: 1. "Nothing in the universe is contingent, but all things are conditioned to exist and operate in a particular manner by the necessity of the divine nature."

2. "Mind and body are one and the same individual which is conceived now under the attribute of thought, and now under extension."

Ludwig Wittgenstein: 1. "The meaning of a question is the method of answering it... Tell me how you are searching, and I will tell you what you are searching for."

2. “The aim... is to set a limit to thought, or rather — not to thought, but to the expression of thoughts.”

3. "It's only by thinking even more crazily than philosophers do that you can solve their problems."

4. "Logic takes care of itself; all we have to do is to look and see how it does it."

Please leave a comment that states the quote number for each philosopher that you prefer. Thanks!

4 comments:

  1. Nietzsche - 1 (I just can't get over how excellent this quote is. It doesn't explain Nietzsche's philosophy, it embodies it)
    Pascal - 2
    Russell - 1
    Popper - 2 (although 1 is also great)
    Sartre - 1
    Schopenhauer - 2
    Spinoza - I don't know Spinoza well enough to really decide
    Wittgenstein - 1

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  2. Eric, thanks for the feedback! I appreciate it.

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