Quotes about philosophic
philosophical views afterlife
Secular humanism does not have the essential attributes of a religion: belief in a deity, the wish for some sort of afterlife, sacred dogma or texts, or an absolutist moral creed. Instead, it expresses a philosophical and ethical point of view, and it draws upon the scientific method in formulationg its naturalistic view of the nature. Paul Kurtz
philosophical ideas interesting
Andy Brown is one of our most interesting and exciting younger poets. With its love of ideas and language, his work demonstrates that there need be no barriers in poetry; that the philosophical, the lyrical and the playful can be combined in work of assured and generous vision. John Burnside
philosophical reading book
If a spectator with a philosophical mind, somebody accustomed to reading books, gets the same kind of information in a movie, he might not fully understand it. Manuel Puig
philosophical looks temporal-things
We look not at the things which are what you would call seen, but at the things which are not seen. For the things which are seen are temporal. But the things that are not seen are eternal. Madeleine L'Engle
philosophical interesting people
I'm not a sociologist, and the novel has often concerned itself with sociology. It's one of the generating forces that's made fiction interesting to people. But that's not my concern. I'm interested in psychology. And also certain philosophical questions about the world. Jonathan Lethem
philosophical broken tiny
When our tools are broken, we feel broken. And when somebody fixes one, we feel a tiny bit more whole. Jonathan Ive
philosophical interesting priorities
That's an interesting thing about an object. One object speaks volumes about the company that produced it and its values and priorities.
philosophical thinking trying
So much of what we try to do is get to a point where the solution seems inevitable: you know, you think "of course it's that way, why would it be any other way?" It looks so obvious, but that sense of inevitability in the solution is really hard to achieve.
philosophical mean design
Design is a word that's come to mean so much that it's also a word that has come to mean nothing.
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.
philosophical apples design
Apple's Jony Ive describes his "fanatical" approach to design in new interview
philosophical people design
Very often design is the most immediate way of defining what products become in people's minds.
philosophical goal simplicity
Our goal is to try to bring a calm and simplicity to what are incredibly complex problems so that you're not aware really of the solution.
philosophical simple simplicity
Simplicity is not the absence of clutter, that's a consequence of simplicity. Simplicity is somehow essentially describing the purpose and place of an object and product. The absence of clutter is just a clutter-free product. That's not simple.
philosophical essence order
You have to deeply understand the essence of a product in order to be able to get rid of the parts that are not essential.
philosophical difficult-and-easy growing
It's very easy to be different, but very difficult to be better.
philosophical passage-of-time passages
The mere passage of time makes us all exiles. Joyce Carol Oates
philosophical wrestling athlete
Ted Seabrooke, my wrestling coach, had a kind of Nietzschean effect on me in terms of not just his estimation of my limited abilities, but his decidedly philosophical stance about how to conduct your life, what you should do to compensate for your limitations. This was essential to me, both as a student - and not a good one - and as a wrestler who was not a natural athlete but who had found something he loved. John Irving
philosophical ideas links
I know that there are many persons to whom it seems derogatory to link a body of philosophic ideas to the social life and cultureof their epoch. They seem to accept a dogma of immaculate conception of philosophical systems. John Dewey
philosophical book letters
Nature is a book, a letter, a fairy tale (in the philosophical sense) or whatever you want to call it. Johann Georg Hamann
philosophical systematic culture
Systematic philosophical and practical anti-intellectualism such as we are witnessing appears to be something truly novel in the history of human culture. Johan Huizinga
philosophical exercise evil
It was like wondering how evil had come into the world or what happens to a person after he dies: an interesting philosophical exercise, but also curiously pointless, since evil and death happened, regardless of the why and the how and what-it-meant. Joe Hill
philosophical history world
World history is a court of judgment. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
philosophical assuming deputies
The Few assume to be the deputies, but they are often only the despoilers of the Many.
philosophical giving events
Amid the pressure of great events, a general principle gives no help.
philosophical littles achieve
Mere goodness can achieve little against the power of nature.
philosophical fall wings
The owl of Minerva spreads its wings only with the falling of the dusk.
philosophical men understand-me
Only one man ever understood me, and he didn't understand me
philosophical rational
What is rational is actual and what is actual is rational
philosophical reasonable
Whatever is reasonable is true, and whatever is true is reasonable
philosophical filled-up mind
Pythagoras, Locke, Socrates - but pages might be filled up, as vainly as before, with the sad usage of all sorts of sages, who in his life-time, each was deemed a bore! The loftiest minds outrun their tardy ages. Lord Byron
philosophical wounds-and-scars deep-wounds
What deep wounds ever closed without a scar?
philosophical animal ill-will
Complete non-violence is complete absence of ill-will against all that lives. It therefore embraces even sub-human life, not excluding noxious insects and beasts. They have not been created to feed our destructive propensities. If we only knew the mind of the Creator, we should find their proper place in His creation. Mahatma Gandhi