Quotes about philosophic
philosophical heart sight
Proverbs often contradict one another, as any reader soon discovers. The sagacity that advises us to look before we leap promptly warns us that if we hesitate we are lost; that absence makes the heart grow fonder, but out of sight, out of mind. Leo Rosten
philosophical mean reality
If we wish to draw philosophical conclusions about our own existence, our significance, and the significance of the universe itself, our conclusions should be based on empirical knowledge. A truly open mind means forcing our imaginations to conform to the evidence of reality, and not vice versa, whether or not we like the implications. Lawrence M. Krauss
philosophical cat choices
Alice came to a fork in the road. 'Which road do I take?' she asked. 'Where do you want to go?' responded the Cheshire Cat. 'I don't know,' Alice answered. 'Then,' said the Cat, 'it doesn't matter. Lewis Carroll
philosophical exercise expression
Constitutions are not designed for metaphysical or logical subtleties, for niceties of expression, for critical propriety, for elaborate shades of meaning, or for the exercise of philosophical acuteness or judicial research. They are instruments of a practical nature, founded on the common business of human life, adapted to common wants, designed for common use, and fitted for common understandings. Joseph Story
philosophical civilization play
Civilizations die from philosophical calm, irony, and a sense of fair play quite as surely as they die of debauchery. Joseph Wood Krutch
philosophical writing thoughtful
Most thoughts are only profiles of thoughts. They must be inverted and synthesized with their antipodes. Thus many philosophical writings become very interesting which would not have been so otherwise. Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
philosophical thinking rivals
With respect to ingenious subconsciousness, I think, philosophers might well rival poets.
philosophical poetic rhetorical
The poetry of this one is called philosophical, of that one philological, of a third rhetorical, and so on. Which is then the poetic poetry?
philosophical truth-is break
Truth is a clumsy servant that breaks the dishes while washing them. Karl Kraus
philosophical philosophical-questions answers
Only the philosophical question is perennial, not the answers. Paul Tillich
philosophical perception stuff
I figured out some basic stuff: that form and colour defines your perception of the nature of an object, whether or not it is intended to. Jonathan Ive
philosophical apples design
Apple's Jony Ive describes his "fanatical" approach to design in new interview
philosophical history world
World history is a court of judgment. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
philosophical fall wings
The owl of Minerva spreads its wings only with the falling of the dusk.
philosophical animal vegetarianism
It is necessary to correct the error that vegetarianism has made us weak in mind, or passive or inert in action. I do not regard flesh-food as necessary at any stage Mahatma Gandhi
philosophical men religion
Religion is more than life. Remember that his own religion is the truest to every man even if it stands low in the scales of philosophical comparison.
philosophical animal discovery
I abhor vivisection with my whole soul. All the scientific discoveries stained with innocent blood I count as of no consequence.
philosophical men animal
It is very significant that some of the most thoughtful and cultured men are partisans of a pure vegetable diet
philosophical government groups
Stripped of ethical rationalizations and philosophical pretensions, a crime is anything that a group in power chooses to prohibit. Freda Adler
philosophical thought-provoking together
If one has not read the newspapers for some months and then reads them all together, one sees, as one never saw before, how much time is wasted with this kind of literature. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
philosophical thinking momentum
The stream of thinking has enormous momentum that can easily drag you along with it. Every thought pretends that it matters so much. Eckhart Tolle
philosophical home mind
When your consciousness is directed outward, mind and world arise. When it is directed inward, it realises its own Source and returns home into the Unmanifested.
philosophical mean law
Not that I wish by any means to deny, that the mental life of individuals and peoples is also in conformity with law, as is the object of philosophical, philological, historical, moral, and social sciences to establish. Hermann von Helmholtz
philosophical ideas welcome
I'm not from a milieu where high-register language or philosophical ideas were welcome. David Mitchell
philosophical men interest
Men often act knowingly against their interest. David Hume
philosophical character science
From the outset, however, this whole controversy has been plagued by tacit assumptions, very often of a philosophical rather than a physical character... David Bohm
philosophical ideas people
When most people turn on their TVs, they don't expect a frank discussion of philosophical ideas in their practical context. Or any context. David O. Russell