Quotes about philosophical
philosophical years billions
It takes billions of years to create a human being. And it takes only a few seconds to die. Jostein Gaarder
philosophical giving use
Let me put it more precisely: The ability to give birth is a natural characteristic. In the same way, everybody can grasp philosophical truths if they just use their innate reason.
philosophical intellectual preparation
Hamlet and Victor Frankenstein are each obsessed with death. Hamlet's whole story is a philosophical preparation for death; Victor's is an intellectual refusal to accept it. Kenneth Branagh
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 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 numbers important
The ends of scientific classification are best answered, when the objects are formed into groups respecting which a greater number of general propositions can be made, and those propositions more important, than could be made respecting any other groups into which the same things could be distributed. ... A classification thus formed is properly scientific or philosophical, and is commonly called a Natural, in contradistinction to a Technical or Artificial, classification or arrangement. John Stuart Mill
philosophical perfection done
To do as one would be done by, and to love one's neighbour as oneself, constitute the ideal perfection of utilitarian morality
philosophical character science
The doctrine called Philosophical Necessity is simply this: that, given the motives which are present to an individual's mind, and given likewise the character and disposition of the individual, the manner in which he will act might be unerringly inferred: that if we knew the person thoroughly, and knew all the inducements which are acting upon him, we could foretell his conduct with as much certainty as we can predict any physical event.
philosophical science would-be
The plain fact is that there are no conclusions. If we must state a conclusion, it would be that many of the former conclusions of the nineteenth-century science on philosophical questions are once again in the melting-pot. James Jeans
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 writing color
Russell's prose has been compared by T.S. Eliot to that of David Hume's. I would rank it higher, for it had more color, juice, and humor. But to be lucid, exciting and profound in the main body of one's work is a combination of virtues given to few philosophers. Bertrand Russell has achieved immortality by his philosophical writings. Sidney Hook
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 men squares
The Phenomenon of Man stands square in the tradition of Naturphilosophie, a philosophical indoor pastime of German origin which does not seem even by accident (though there is a great deal of it) to have contributed anything of permanent value to the storehouse of human thought. Peter Medawar