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philosophy feelings given
The value given to the testimony of any feeling must depend on our whole philosophy, not our whole philosophy on a feeling. C. S. Lewis
philosophy mean doe
Nature does not teach. A true philosophy may sometimes validate an experience of nature; an experience of nature cannot validate a philosophy. Nature will not verify any theological or metaphysical proposition (or not in the manner we are now considering); she will help to show what it means.
philosophy kind learning-experience
What we learn from experience depends on the kind of philosophy we bring to experience.
philosophy views stones
I felt that my views and philosophies had been changed overnight. The philosophies that i had gladly carved in stone, recited and danced upon. Cecelia Ahern
philosophy reflection study
I am interested in study, reflection, philosophy - but always as a dilettante. I also consider myself a dilettante as a painter. Antoni Tapies
philosophy raw-materials technique
The philosophies that have been inspired by scientific technique are power philosophies, and tend to regard everything non-human as mere raw material. Ends are no longer considered; only the skillfulness of the process is valued. This also is a form of madness. It is, in our day, the most dangerous form, and the one against which a sane philosophy should provide an antidote Bertrand Russell
philosophy men common
Those who advocate common usage in philosophy sometimes speak in a manner that suggests the mystique of the 'common man.'
philosophy taken common-sense
The doctrine (of) maintaining that the language of daily life, with words used in their ordinary meanings, suffices for philosophy . . . I find myself totally unable to accept . . . . Because it makes almost inevitable the perpetuation amongst philosophers of the muddle-headedness they have taken over from common sense.
philosophy greatness mind
Through the greatness of the universe, which philosophy contemplates, the mind also is rendered great, and becomes capable of that union with the universe which constitutes its highest good.
imagination people tend
Basically, I tend to see the world differently to other people, and I write books and stories to alter the imagination of people so that they also see the world in a different way. Ian Watson
imagination creative important
If one draws things in a manner which provides only the barest clue to their meaning, the viewer is forced to fill in the gaps by using his own imagination. He is compelled to participate in the creative act, which I consider very important.
imagination solitude
Imagination flourishes best in solitude. Anthony Storr
imagination missing desire
The ecstatic state of wholeness is bound to be transient because it has no part in the total pattern of ‘adaptation through maladaptation’ which is characteristic of our species…the hunger of imagination, the desire and pursuit of the whole, take origin from the realization that something is missing, from awareness of incompleteness.
imagination inspire fuel
A mission could be defined as an image of a desired state that you want to get to. Once fully seen, it will inspire you to act, fuel your imagination and determine your behavior. Bill Vaughan
imagination
You are the imagination of yourself. Bill Hicks
imagination heaven purpose
If life is to be fully human it must serve some end which seems, in some sense, outside human life, some end which is impersonal and above mankind, such as God or truth or beauty. Those who best promote life do not have life for their purpose. They aim rather at what seems like a gradual incarnation, a bringing into our human existence of something eternal, something that appears to imagination to live in a heaven remote from strife and failure and the devouring jaws of Time.
imagination effort desire
Without effort and change, human life cannot remain good. It is not a finished Utopia that we ought to desire, but a world where imagination and hope are alive and active.
imagination
The American imagination has never been able to fully recover from its white-supremacist beginnings. Claudia Rankine
philosopher
Philosophers.-We are full of things which take us out of ourselves. Blaise Pascal
philosopher influential mystery
It is now no mystery that some quite influential 'philosophers' were 'mentally' ill. Alfred Korzybski
philosopher economic psychological
The facile economic and psychological debunking of the theoretical life cannot do away with its irreducible beauties. Allan Bloom
philosophers-and-philosophy philosophy rather seeks solve
Real philosophy seeks rather to solve than to deny.
philosophers-and-philosophy philosophy plato received regard
Philosophy does not regard pedigree, she received Plato not as a noble, but she made him one.
philosopher lovers
A philosopher's a lover of wisdom. Cornel West
philosophers-and-philosophy station themselves
The philosopher must station themselves in the middle. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
philosopher celibacy states
The ideal state for a philosopher, indeed, is celibacy tempered by polygamy. H. L. Mencken
philosopher absurd said
Sed nescio quo modo nihil tam absurde dici potest quod non dicatur ab aliquo philosphorum. (There is nothing so absurd but some philosopher has said it.) Marcus Tullius Cicero