Philosophy
Some words connected with PIE world-view:
- *gʰosti- concerned mutual obligations between people and between worshippers and gods, and from which guest and host are derived.
- *h₁r̥-tu-, *h₁r̥-to-, "fitting, right, ordered", also "right time, ritually correct", related to the order of the world (Avestan asha, Vedic Sanskrit rta-, rtu-)
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Famous quotes containing the word philosophy:
“All roads are blocked to a philosophy which reduces everything to the word “no.” To “no” there is only one answer and that is “yes.” Nihilism has no substance. There is no such thing as nothingness, and zero does not exist. Everything is something. Nothing is nothing. Man lives more by affirmation than by bread.”
—Victor Hugo (1802–1885)
“If you look at history you’ll find that no state has been so plagued by its rulers as when power has fallen into the hands of some dabbler in philosophy or literary addict.”
—Desiderius Erasmus (c. 1466–1536)
“A philosophy can and must be worked out with the greatest rigour and discipline in the details, but can ultimately be founded on nothing but faith: and this is the reason, I suspect, why the novelties in philosophy are only in elaboration, and never in fundamentals.”
—T.S. (Thomas Stearns)