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philosophy philosophy-and-religion passionate
I'm very passionate about philosophy and religion. Helen Slater
philosophical trying way
...while there is such a thing as correctness in ethics, in interpretation, in mathematics, the way to understand that is not by trying to model it on the ways in which we get things right in physics.... Hilary Putnam
philosophy independent community
Under the old philosophy which had governed the high Middle Ages things had been everywhere towards a condition of Society in which property was well distributed throughout the community, and thus the family rendered independent. Hilaire Belloc
philosophy soul dry
A dry soul is wisest and best. Heraclitus
philosophy oneness
From out of all the many particulars comes oneness, and out of oneness come all the many particulars.
philosophical reality names
Life has the name of life, but in reality it is death.
philosophy philosophical rivers
One cannot step twice in the same river
philosophy way greek-philosophy
The way up and the way down are one and the same.
philosophy views giving
Science is expanding, and with it our vision of the universe. although this new and constantly changing view may not always give us comfort, it does have the virtue of truth according to our most effective resources for acquiring knowledge. No philosophy, moral outlook, or religion can be inconsistent with the findings of science and hope to endure among educated people. Heinz Pagels
philosophy looks
Never look back' is my philosophy. Helen Clark
philosophy book order
I bought some books in order to learn the first principles of philosophy. Johann Heinrich Lambert
philosophy men hands
By philosophy the mind of man comes to itself, and from henceforth rests on itself without foreign aid, and is completely master of itself, as the dancer of his feet, or the boxer of his hands. Johann Gottlieb Fichte
philosophy philosophical men
What sort of philosophy one chooses depends, therefore, on what sort of man one is; for a philosophical system is not a dead piece of furniture that we can reject or accept as we wish; it is rather a thing animated by the soul of the person who holds it.
philosophy persons depends
What sort of philosophy one chooses depends on what sort of person one is.
philosophy calm patient
True philosophy is that which renders us to ourselves, and all others who surround us, better, and at the same time more content, more patient, more calm and more ready for all decent and pure enjoyment. Johann Kaspar Lavater
philosophy rights mountain
Time does not relinquish its rights, either over human beings or over mountains. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
philosophy medicine jurisprudence
I have, alas! Philosophy, Medicine, Jurisprudence too, And to my cost Theology, With ardent labor, studied through. And here I stand, with all my lore, Poor fool, no wiser than before.
philosophical firsts doe
The work with which we embark on this first volume of a series of theological studies is a work with which the philosophical person does not begin, but rather concludes. Hans Urs von Balthasar
philosophy fool claims
He who claims to be sure of something for which there is no evidence is a fool, and he who acts on the basis of what cannot be proved is an imposter. Han Fei
philosophy design humanity
The rage for wanting to conclude is one of the most deadly and most fruitless manias to befall humanity. Each religion and each philosophy has pretended to have God to itself, to measure the infinite, and to know the recipe for happiness. What arrogance and what nonsense! I see, to the contrary, that the greatest geniuses and the greatest works have never concluded. Gustave Flaubert
philosophy golf romance
Golf is 20 percent mechanics and technique. The other 80 pecent is philosophy, humor, tragedy, romance, melodrama, companionship, camaraderie, cussedness and conversation. Grantland Rice
philosophy organization political
The price of freedom—of individuality—is attention to politics, careful planning, careful organization; philosophy is no more a barrier against political disaster than it is against plague. Greg Bear
philosophy finding-yourself wealth
Will you gather daydreams or will you gather wealth? How can you find your fortune when you cannot find yourself? Gordon Lightfoot
philosophy cat thinking
...But nature does not say that cats are more valuable than mice; nature makes no remark on the subject. She does not even say that the cat is enviable or the mouse pitiable. We think the cat superior because we have (or most of us have) a particular philosophy to the effect that life is better than death. But if the mouse were a German pessimist mouse, he might not think that the cat had beaten him at all. He might think he had beaten the cat by getting to the grave first. Gilbert K. Chesterton
philosophical romance stories
Christianity met the mythological search for romance by being a story and the philosophical search for truth by being a true story.
philosophy artist world
It is because artists do not practise, patrons do not patronize, crowds do not assemble to reverently worship the great work of Doing Nothing, that the world has lost its philosophy and even failed to invent a new religion.
philosophy fall mean
I never said a word against eminent men of science. What I complain of is a vague popular philosophy which supposes itself to be scientific when it is really nothing but a sort of new religion and an uncommonly nasty one. When people talked about the fall of man, they knew they were talking about a mystery, a thing they didn't understand. Now they talk about the survival of the fittest: they think they do understand it, whereas they have not merely no notion, they have an elaborately false notion of what the words mean.
philosophy moon men
A cosmic philosophy is not constructed to fit a man; a cosmic philosophy is constructed to fit a cosmos. A man can no more possess a private religion than he can possess a private sun and moon.
philosophy science men
[There is] one distinctly human thing - the story. There can be as good science about a turnip as about a man. ... [Or philosophy, or theology] ...There can be, without any question at all, as good higher mathematics about a turnip as about a man. But I do not think, though I speak in a manner somewhat tentative, that there could be as good a novel written about a turnip as a man.
philosophy science physicians
To mix science up with philosophy is only to produce a philosophy that has lost all its ideal value and a science that has lost all its practical value. It is for my private physician to tell me whether this or that food will kill me. It is for my private philosopher to tell me whether I ought to be killed.
philosophy real men
Sir Hiram Maxim is a genuine and typical example of the man of science, romantic, excitable, full of real but somewhat obvious poetry, a little hazy in logic and philosophy, but full of hearty enthusiasm and an honorable simplicity. He is, as he expresses it, "an old and trained engineer," and is like all of the old and trained engineers I have happened to come across, a man who indemnifies himself for the superhuman or inhuman concentration required for physical science by a vague and dangerous romanticism about everything else.
philosophy humanity made
I will not call it my philosophy; for I did not make it. God and humanity made it; and it made me.
philosophical thinking doubt
Blasphemy is an artistic effect, because blasphemy depends upon a philosophical conviction. Blasphemy depends upon belief and is fading with it. If any one doubts this, let him sit down seriously and try to think blasphemous thoughts about Thor.