Quotes about philosophic
philosophical
We can't all do everything. Virgil
philosophical enemy strategy
Who asks whether the enemy was defeated by strategy or valor?
philosophical time-passes
Time passes irrevocably.
philosophical helping unfortunate
Myself acquainted with misfortune, I learn to help the unfortunate.
philosophical reality mind
The sole "property" of matter with whose recognition philosophical materialism is bound up is the property of being an objective reality, of existing outside the mind. Vladimir Lenin
philosophical character men
The myriad-minded man, our, and all men's, Shakespeare, has in this piece presented us with a legitimate farce in exactest consonance with the philosophical principles and character of farce, as distinguished from comedy and from entertainments. A proper farce is mainly distinguished from comedy by the licence allowed, and even required, in the fable, in order to produce strange and laughable situations. The story need not be probable, it is enough that it is possible. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
philosophical sea ships
We must not leap to the fatalistic conclusion that we are stuck with the conceptual scheme that we grew up in. We can change it, bit by bit, plank by plank, though meanwhile there is nothing to carry us along but the evolving conceptual scheme itself. The philosopher's task was well compared by Neurath to that of a mariner who must rebuild his ship on the open sea. Willard Van Orman Quine
philosophical evil religion
There is no possible source of evil except good. Saint Augustine
philosophical wilting grants
Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.
philosophical men perfection
This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfections.
philosophical punishment justice
Punishment is justice for the unjust.
philosophical writing rome
If there had been a censorship of the press in Rome we should have had today neither Horace nor Juvenal, nor the philosophical writings of Cicero. Voltaire
philosophical poverty comfort
The comfort of the rich depends upon an abundant supply of the poor.
philosophical reflection psychology
Philosophical reflection could not leave the relation of mind and spirit in the obscurity which had satisfied the needs of the naive consciousness. Wilhelm Wundt
philosophical emotional oil
Most people hew the battlements of life from compromise, erecting their impregnable keeps from judicious submissions, fabricating their philosophical drawbridges from emotional retractions and scalding marauders in the boiling oil of sour grapes. Zelda Fitzgerald
philosophical suffering littles
The happy and the suffering probably understand life equally well, but the sufferers may see a little more clearly how little it is that they understand. James Richardson
philosophical destiny grieving
There is no good in arguing with the inevitable. The only argument available with an east wind is to put on your overcoat. James Russell Lowell
philosophical civilization greed
From the first day to this, sheer greed was the driving spirit of civilization. Friedrich Engels
philosophical law criminals
Some laws of state aimed at curbing crime are even more criminal.
philosophical common-sense temptation
One can defend common sense against the attacks of philosophers only by solving their puzzles, i.e., by curing them of the temptation to attack common sense.... Ludwig Wittgenstein
philosophical said
What can be shown, cannot be said.
philosophical contradiction tautology
Propositions show what they say: tautologies and contradictions show that they say nothing.
philosophical math reality
Logic takes care of itself; all we have to do is to look and see how it does it.
philosophical way problem
A philosophical problem has the form: I don't know my way about.
philosophical confusion people
People are deeply imbedded in philosophical, i.e., grammatical confusions. And to free them presupposes pulling them out of the immensely manifold connections they are caught up in.
philosophical holiday goes-on
Philosophical problems arise when language goes on holiday
philosophical self soul
The philosophical I is not the human being, not the human body or the human soul with the psychological properties, but the metaphysical subject, the boundary (not a part) of the world.
philosophical boxers philosopher
A philosopher who is not taking part in discussions is like a boxer who never goes into the ring.
philosophical emotional essence
True literature is more than just a story someone has told. It must provide the reader with the essence of the world on a moral, philosophical and emotional level. Orhan Pamuk
philosophical laughing
Do not laugh much or often or unrestrainedly. Epictetus
philosophical passion thee
Control thy passions lest they take vengence on thee.
philosophical religion treasure
Unless we place our religion and our treasure in the same thing, religion will always be sacrificed.
philosophical evil religion
There is nothing good or evil save in the will.