Quotes about philosophic
philosophical body movement
I see plainly how external images influence the image that I call my body : they transmit movement to it. Henri Bergson
philosophical mind tasks
The major task of the twentieth century will be to explore the unconscious, to investigate the subsoil of the mind.
philosophical mysticism
Religion is to mysticism what popularization is to science
philosophical simple mind
I cannot escape the objection that there is no state of mind, however simple, that does not change every moment
philosophical giving movement
And I also see how this body influences external images: it gives back movement to them.
philosophical past reality
In reality, the past is preserved by itself automatically.
philosophical tools faculty
Intelligence is the faculty of making artificial objects, especially tools to make tools.
philosophical democracy motive
The motive power of democracy is love
philosophical race together
Are we not all shipwrecked,...condemned to death?... However impatient our neighbours make us, however much indignation our race arouses, we are all bound together, and the companions of a chain-gang have everything to lose by mutual insults... Henri Frederic Amiel
philosophical able phantoms
A microscopic phantom of the universe; this is all that we are able to be.
philosophical men judging
The philosopher is like a man fasting in the midst of universal intoxication. He alone perceives the illusion of which all creatures are the willing playthings; he is less duped than his neighbor by his own nature. He judges more sanely, he sees things as they are. It is in this that his liberty consists - in the ability to see clearly and soberly, in the power of mental record.
philosophical eye smell
I found that of the senses, the eye is the most superficial, the ear the most arrogant, smell the most voluptuous, taste the most superstitious and fickle, touch the most profound and the most philosophical. Helen Keller
philosophical soul matter
Things have a life of their own," the gypsy proclaimed with a harsh accent. "It's simply a matter of waking up their souls. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
philosophical littles way
What Descartes did was a good step. You have added much several ways, and especially in taking the colours of thin plates into philosophical consideration. If I have seen a little further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants. Isaac Newton
philosophical views civilization
...What is at stake is civilization and humanity, nothing less. The idea that everything is permitted, as Nietzsche put it, rests on the premise of nihilism and has nihilistic implications. I will not pretend that the case against nihilism and for civilization is an easy one to make. We are here confronting the most fundamental of philosophical questions, on the deepest levels. In short, the matter of pornography and obscenity is not a trivial one, and only superficial minds can take a bland and untroubled view of it. Irving Kristol
philosophical criminal-mind spirituality
The irrationality of a thing is no argument against its existence, rather a condition of it. Friedrich Nietzsche
philosophical noble nobility
It is nobler to declare oneself wrong than to insist on being right --especially when one is right.
philosophical law kind
I am a law only for my kind, I am no law for all.
philosophical fighting monsters
Be careful when you fight the monsters, lest you become one.
philosophical stupidity forget-the-past
To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity.
philosophical existential founders
Philosophical systems are wholly true for their founders only.
philosophical buddhism long
Buddhism is a hundred times as realistic as Christianity it is part of its living heritage that it is able to face problems objectively and coolly; it is the product of long centuries of philosophical speculation.
philosophical desire one-love
Ultimately one loves one's desires and not that which is desired.
philosophical men animal
Man is the cruelest animal.
philosophical men fire
A man who discovers his pants are on fire tends to have very little time to worry about somebody else's box of matches Jeff Lindsay
philosophical murder abstract
I say a murder is abstract. You pull the trigger and after that you do not understand anything that happens. Jean-Paul Sartre
philosophical essence existence
Existence precedes and rules essence.
philosophical men resources
Who can exhaust a man? Who knows a man's resources?
philosophical sixteen saint
One cannot become a saint when one works sixteen hours a day.
philosophical men
Man is condemned to be free
philosophical umpires issues
What do I care about Jupiter? Justice is a human issue, and I do not need a god to teach it to me.
philosophical taken sunset
There is only one day left, always starting over: it is given to us at dawn and taken away from us at dusk.
philosophical meaning-of-life
Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is.