Quotes about philosophical
philosophical hero mean
I sing, not arms and the hero, but the philosophic man: he who seeks in contemplation to discover the inner will of the world, ininvention to discover the means of fulfilling that will, and in action to do that will by the so-discovered means. George Bernard Shaw
philosophical sleep men
Most men are not wicked... They are sleep-walkers, not evil evildoers. Franz Kafka
philosophical gay rainbow
Gay is a subculture, a slur, a set of gestures, a slang, a look, a posture, a parade, a rainbow flag, a film genre, a taste in music, a hairstyle, a marketing demographic, a bumper sticker, a political agenda and philosophical viewpoint. Gay is a pre-packaged, superficial persona-a lifestyle. It's a sexual identity that has almost nothing to do with sexuality. Jack Donovan
philosophical reading book
Reading is going toward something that is about to be, and no one yet knows what it will be. Italo Calvino
philosophical america poverty
Poverty continues to exist. Its appearance seems to be relentless in evidencing itself not only to all the things we experience here in America, but certainly what we see globally. And I don't see anywhere any philosophical analysis that suggests we know how to get out of this. Harry Belafonte
philosophical player piano
I'm a natural piano player. So all the practicing I do at this point is in my head. If I don't play for a year, my chops aren't going to get any worse. I've spent my time playing scales, and I don't necessarily want to play any faster than I play. So everything I do at this point is more philosophical. Harry Connick, Jr.
philosophical character mean
If some people read my fiction and see it as fundamentally about philosophical ideas, what it probably means is that these are pieces where the characters are not as alive and interesting as I meant them to be. David Foster Wallace
philosophical interesting house
'Ape House' is an ambitious novel in several ways, for which it is to be admired, and it is certainly an easy read, but because Gruen is not quite prepared for the philosophical implications of her subject, it is not as deeply involving emotionally or as interesting thematically as it could be. Jane Smiley
philosophical years cautiousness
Cautiousness in judgment is nowadays to be recommended to each and every one: if we gained only one incontestable truth every ten years from each of our philosophical writers the harvest we reaped would be sufficient. Georg C. Lichtenberg
philosophical light want
The fly that doesn't want to be swatted is most secure when it lights on the fly-swatter.
philosophical christianity pity
Christianity is called the religion of pity. Friedrich Nietzsche
philosophical gay sections
The Gay Science, section 108
philosophical men justice
For men are not equal: thus speaks justice.
philosophical antichrist sections
The Antichrist, Section 7
philosophical evil aphorism
Beyond Good and Evil, Aphorism 153
philosophical mean past
Actual philosophers... are commanders and law-givers: they say "thus it shall be!", it is they who determine the Wherefore and Whither of mankind, and they possess for this task the preliminary work of all the philosophical laborers, of all those who have subdued the past - they reach for the future with creative hand, and everything that is or has been becomes for them a means, an instrument, a hammer.
philosophical mind unexpected
In unphilosophical minds any rare or unexpected thing excites wonder, while in philosophical minds the familiar excites wonder also. George Santayana
philosophical men thinking
Why'd you have to say that there's always someone who can do it better than I can And don't you think that I know that walkin' on water won't make me a miracle man Elvis Costello
philosophical disease remedy
Extreme remedies are very appropriate for extreme diseases. Hippocrates
philosophical simple substance
But in simple substances the influence of one monad over another is ideal only. Gottfried Leibniz
philosophical two facts
There are also two kinds of truths: truth of reasoning and truths of fact.
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 flow
Everything flows and nothing stays. Homer
philosophical angel mind
Maybe philosophical problems are hard not because they are divine or irreducible or meaningless or workaday science, but because the mind of Homo sapiens lacks the cognitive equipment to solve them. We are organisms, not angels... Our minds evolved... to solve problems, [not]... to answer any question we are capable of asking. Steven Pinker
philosophical pages duty
It is an author's primary duty to entertain. Sling out all the philosophical terms, but keep the reader turning the page. Susan Howatch
philosophical objectivity data
How then did we come to the "standard model"? And how has it supplanted other theories, like the steady state model? It is a tribute to the essential objectivity of modern astrophysics that this consensus has been brought about, not by shifts in philosophical preference or by the influence of astrophysical mandarins, but by the pressure of empirical data. Steven Weinberg
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.