Quotes about philosophic
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 feel-better apples
Grover didn't say anything for awhile. Then, when I thought he was going to give me some deep philosophical comment to make me feel better, he said, "Can I have your apple? Rick Riordan
philosophical destiny poet
This seems to me a philosophical question, and therefore irrelevant, question. A poet's destiny is to love. Robert Graves
philosophical thinking justice
I do think you have sort of a general philosophical approach that you want from a justice, and I think a strict constructionist would be probably the way I'd describe it. Rudy Giuliani
philosophical air matter
It is sad that the air is the only thing we share. No matter how close we get to each other, there is always air between us. Yoko Ono
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 paradise lost
The true paradises are the paradises that we have lost. Marcel Proust
philosophical passion men
A man governs himself by the dictates of virtue and good sense, who acts without zeal or passion in points that are of no consequence; but when the whole community is shaken, and the safety of the public endangered, the appearance of a philosophical or an affected indolence must arise either from stupidity or perfidiousness. Joseph Addison
philosophical men landscape
The good is, like nature, an immense landscape in which man advances through centuries of exploration. Jose Ortega y Gasset
philosophical results said
American politics are normally a result of pragmatic and not philosophical reasoning. No one in Washington has said we now prefer multilateralism. Henry A. Kissinger
philosophical years tolerance
Compromise and tolerance are magic words. It took me 40 years to become philosophical. Hedy Lamarr
philosophical animal squirrels
The squirrel that you kill in jest, dies in earnest. Henry David Thoreau
philosophical animal men
Every man who has ever been earnest to preserve his higher or poetic faculties in the best condition, has been particularly inclined to abstain from animal food
philosophical simplify
Simplify, simplify, simplify.
philosophical mathematics pleasure
I also ask you my friends not to condemn me entirely to the mill of mathematical calculations, and allow me time for philosophical speculations, my only pleasures. Johannes Kepler
philosophical poetry mind
The philosophic mind inclines always to an elaborate life--the life of Goethe or of Leonardo da Vinci; but the life of the poet isintense--the life of Blake or of Dante--taking into its centre the life that surrounds it and flinging it abroad again amid planetary music. James Joyce
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 paris looks
Look at the Paris Commune. That was the Dictatorship of the Proletariat. Friedrich Engels
philosophical civilization greed
From the first day to this, sheer greed was the driving spirit of civilization.
philosophical law criminals
Some laws of state aimed at curbing crime are even more criminal.
philosophical different philosopher
There is not a philosophical method, though there are indeed methods, like different therapies. Ludwig Wittgenstein
philosophical thinking disease
A main cause of philosophical disease-an unbalanced diet: one nourishes one's thinking with only one kind of example.
philosophical ladders world
My propositions serve as elucidations in the following way: anyone who understands me eventually recognizes them as nonsensical, when he has used them--as steps--to climb up beyond them. (He must, so to speak, throw away the ladder after he has climbed up it.) He must transcend these propositions, and then he will see the whole world aright.
philosophical giving logic
It is possible--indeed possible even according to the old conception of logic--to give in advance a description of all 'true' logical propositions. Hence there can never be surprises in logic.
philosophical reap remarks
There are remarks that sow and remarks that reap.
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....
philosophical said
What can be shown, cannot be said.
philosophical independent world
The world is independent of my will.
philosophical contradiction tautology
Propositions show what they say: tautologies and contradictions show that they say nothing.
philosophical sleep science
Man has to awaken to wonder - and so perhaps do peoples. Science is a way of sending him to sleep again.
philosophical tree tragedy
You get tragedy where the tree, instead of bending, breaks.
philosophical air discussion
A new word is like a fresh seed sown on the ground of the discussion.