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Philosophy

A thorough skeptic may doubt every idea, but he cannot doubt that he is doubting.
A stoic attitude inheres in facing adversity with fortitude. We are all stoics, because we have known failures and learnt forbearance at some stages in life.
Obtuse philosophy is logic chisling, which is mind chipping.
You may reduce a proposition to its logical absurdity, but the people will still believe it, if what is absurd is novel with mystifying properties.
A skeptic is a person who is willing to admit that he could be wrong in being right.
Nihilism is the terminal stage of despair.
Life is liberating in a culture of skepticism, where sensible persons make it a habit of their minds not to accept opinions on authority without verification.
For most, life is a wayward existence lived from moment to moment. Only a few pause to brood about it.
Philosophy is sense knowing life through speculative reason. It is not lucrative to live by thinking alone in a closed society.
It is the perception gathered from the interdependence of things that makes the reality intelligible. It is not possible to describe red colour without pointing out that it is not green or blue.
A cynic takes two points of view, the worse and the worst.
If nothing comes out of nothing, how could the beginning begin? Nothing creates nothing.
There was something in the beginning; otherwise, beginning could not begin. But logically, that something could only have come out from something else, thus introducing the dilemma of eternal regress. Alternatively, something emerged from nothing, which again is contradictory. This is a fascinating impasse in the quest of being and non-being.
The act of creation appears to be like a Japanese calligraphic painting, in which the first stroke of the brush is the final stroke with no chance of correction. So many first strokes are brushed around us in life, one being cruelty of man to man.
In philosophy, knowledge is getting esoteric, as words are replaced by mathematical symbols for precision. Thinking is transformed into recondite equations understood only by the specialists. Such knowledge is held in respect and awe, like religious beliefs, as leaps of faith, without the warmth and glow of the intimacy of comprehension.
Philosophy has become a search of precise words in a neat formula for life which is not yet conceived.
Questions of philosophy are unanswerable, because the mystery of life is insoluble.
A person can be evil in his dealing with good conscience, if he is pragmatic by principle, which makes pragmatism an immoral philosophy.
Both a gardener and a philosophers are creators. A gardener grows flowers, where none grew before and a philosopher grows doubt where none existed earlier. The former creates beauty of sight and the latter excellence of mind.
Life is a gaping dichotomy. There can be no idea of good without knowing evil, as there is no appreciation of pleasure without pain.
The philosophy of existentialism is irrationality oflife explained.
Existentialism explains that there is nothing rational about the inconsistency of a fragmented life.
Intuition is concealed reason suddenly revealed.
Socrates dramatized the truth of his convictions by drinking hemlock. His disciples did not make a religion of the beliefs for which he died, because they were thinkers for dispelling doubt and not believers to enforce dogma for power.
Philosophy grapples with the errors of the use of imprecise words in the language to determine meaning of meanings.
A skeptic is never certain of anything. There is always an inductive possibility that what never occurred before, imaginable or not, may happen any time.
Reduce the argument to reductio ad absurdum, but the absurd will still believe in the absurdity on emotional grounds. For the vast majority of people, truth has no value, if it does not comforting and consoling.
A person cannot say that reality is above human comprehension because, being human, he cannot know that there is anything above his comprehension.
If an obscure and obtuse theory is couched in high-sounding vacuous words, the critics will praise it all the more for not understanding it. This is post-modernism in philosophy in West and modem Shariah scholarship in Muslim East.

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