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philosophy priorities substance
Philosophy is the science of estimating values. The superiority of any state or substance over another is determined by philosophy. By assigning a position of primary importance to what remains when all that is secondary has been removed, philosophy thus becomes the true index of priority or emphasis in the realm of speculative thought. Manly Hall
philosophy passion men
The falsest of all philosophies is that which, under the pretext of delivering men from the embarrassment of their passions, counsels idleness and the abandonment and neglect of themselves. Luc de Clapiers
philosophy philosopher sincerity
Clearness marks the sincerity of philosophers.
philosophy atheism causes
In good philosophy, the word cause ought to be reserved to the single Divine impulse that has formed the universe. Louis Pasteur
philosophy laughing sublime
Posterity will one day laugh at the sublime foolishness of the modern materialistic philosophy. The more I study nature, the more I stand amazed at the work of the Creator. I pray while I am engaged at my work in the laboratory.
philosophy philosopher truth-is
Truth is the object of philosophy, but not always of philosophers. John Churton Collins
philosophy confusion people
People look for morals in fiction because there has always been a confusion between fiction and philosophy. John Cheever
philosophy government libertarian
Maybe it's my libertarian philosophy: but being in government is hard. John Bolton
philosophy government people
My philosophy is not a bean-counting, accounting 'look at this.' It is a philosophy that smaller government is better government, and government that is closer to the people is best of all.
mean organization two
Capitalism and socialism are two distinct patterns of social organization. Private control of the means of production and public control are contradictory notions and not merely contrary notions. There is no such thing as a mixed economy, a system that would stand midway between capitalism and socialism. Ludwig von Mises
mean share tolerant
Being tolerant does not mean that I share another ones belief. But it does mean that I acknowledge another ones right to believe, and obey, his own conscience. Viktor E. Frankl
mean ideas argument
Multitudes of words are neither an argument of clear ideas in the writer, nor a proper means of conveying clear notions to the reader. Adam Clarke
mean fool dare
Did Stanton say I was a damned fool? Then I dare say I must be one, for Stanton is generally right and he always says what he means. Abraham Lincoln
mean government admitting
I go for all sharing the privileges of the government who assist in bearing its burdens. Consequently I go for admitting all whites to the right of suffrage who pay taxes or bear arms, by no means excluding females.
mean thinking government
...I do not mean to say that this general government is charged with the duty of redressing or preventing all the wrongs in the world; but I do think that it is charged with the duty of preventing and redressing all wrongs which are wrongs to itself.
mean people civil-war
The world has never had a good definition of the word liberty, and the American people, just now, are much in want of one. We all declare for liberty; but in using the same word we do not all mean the same thing....
mean thinking animal
I think small animals can escape from many kinds of natural disaster more easily. There are just more places for them to hide, and more ways for them to find safe habitats. So this means that rats are set up to rule the Earth, but most of us already knew that. Now you know why. Annalee Newitz
mean talking practice
My first goal would be to reduce the perturbation in the carbon cycle. That would mean using carbon neutral sources of energy, and changing our agricultural practices to be less disruptive and polluting. I'm not talking about a policy here so much as changing the way our infrastructure works. That's why I'm so fascinated with changing the way we build cities, because they are the most developed forms of physical infrastructure for human habitation.
men religion useless
Men would never be superstitious, if they could govern all their circumstances by set rules, or if they were always favoured by fortune: but being frequently driven into straits where rules are useless, and being often kept fluctuating pitiably between hope and fear by the uncertainty of fortune's greedily coveted favours, they are consequently for the most part, very prone to credulity. Baruch Spinoza
men simplicity fame
The greatest truths are the simplest, and so are the greatest men. Augustus Hare
men goes-on prometheus
And man will go on. Man, not men. Ayn Rand
men years advice
That man has offered me unsolicited advice for six years, most of it bad. Calvin Coolidge
men happiness-and-success foundation
The seminary programs will help you as a young man or woman to lay a foundation for happiness and success in life. Richard G. Scott
men hands way-in-life
A man who wishes to make his way in life could do no better than go through the world with a boiling tea-kettle in his hand. Sydney Smith
men want fool
A man may be as much a fool from the want of sensibility as the want of sense. Anna Jameson
men courtesy he-man
The greater the man the greater the courtesy. Lord Alfred Tennyson
men nurse despair
It becomes no man to nurse despair, but, in the teeth of clenched antagonisms, to follow up the worthiest till he die.