Quotes about philosophical
philosophical errors important
Al-Ghazali is the most important philosophical theologian of classical Islam, and Moderation in Belief is among his most important works. It sets out al-Ghazali's Ash?arite theology with unusual clarity and provides important background for such well-known works as his autobiographical Deliverance from Error and his attack on Avicenna in The Incoherence of the Philosophers. This first English-language translation, with notes that bring out the argumentation and background of the work, is thus very much to be welcomed. Peter Adamson
philosophical responsibility reality
Becoming a vegetarian is not merely a symbolic gesture. Nor is it an attempt to isolate oneself from the ugly realities of the world, to keep oneself pure and so without responsibility for the cruelty and carnage all around. Becoming a vegetarian is a highly practical and effective step one can take toward ending both the killing of nonhuman animals and the infliction of suffering on them. Peter Singer
philosophical firsts virtue
I have many times been praised for my lack of animosity towards the Germans. It's not a philosophical virtue. It's a habit of having my second reactions before the first. Primo Levi
philosophical animal want
If you declare that you are naturally designed for such a diet, then first kill for yourself what you want to eat. Do it, however, only through your own resources, unaided by cleaver or cudgel or any kind of ax Plutarch
philosophical animal flesh
Note that the eating of flesh is not only physically against nature, but it also makes us spiritually coarse and gross by reason of satiety and surfeit.
philosophical ideas mind
To philosophical materialists God is no more than an idea in the human mind, and not a very important idea. Phillip E. Johnson
philosophical philosophical-questions answers
Only the philosophical question is perennial, not the answers. Paul Tillich
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 woods stones
God is nearer to me than I am to myself; He is just as near to wood and stone, but they do not know it.
philosophical soul subtraction
God is not found in the soul by adding anything but by a process of subtraction.
philosophical yesterday lasts
The now wherein God made the world is as near this time as the now I am speaking in this moment, and the last day is as near this now as was yesterday.
philosophical worry people
People should not worry so much about what they do but rather about what they are.
philosophical thinking today
Think I'll flip a coin, I'm a winner either way Mmmmmm, I feel lucky today Mary Chapin Carpenter
philosophical men humanity
In philosophical anthropology, ... where the subject is man in his wholeness, the investigator cannot content himself, as in anthropology as an individual science, with considering man as another part of nature and with ignoring the fact that he, the investigator, is himself a man and experiences this humanity in his inner experience in a way that he simply cannot experience any part of nature. Martin Buber
philosophical men subjectivity
The philosophical anthropologist ... can know the wholeness of the person and through it the wholeness of man only when he does not leave his subjectivity out and does not remain an untouched observer.
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 writing practice
It is easier to produce ten volumes of philosophical writings than to put one principle into practice. Leo Tolstoy
philosophical animal thinking
What I think about vivisection is that if people admit that they have the right to take or endanger the life of living beings for the benefit of many, there will be no limit to their cruelty.
philosophical heart sight
Proverbs often contradict one another, as any reader soon discovers. The sagacity that advises us to look before we leap promptly warns us that if we hesitate we are lost; that absence makes the heart grow fonder, but out of sight, out of mind. Leo Rosten
philosophical mean reality
If we wish to draw philosophical conclusions about our own existence, our significance, and the significance of the universe itself, our conclusions should be based on empirical knowledge. A truly open mind means forcing our imaginations to conform to the evidence of reality, and not vice versa, whether or not we like the implications. Lawrence M. Krauss
philosophical cat choices
Alice came to a fork in the road. 'Which road do I take?' she asked. 'Where do you want to go?' responded the Cheshire Cat. 'I don't know,' Alice answered. 'Then,' said the Cat, 'it doesn't matter. Lewis Carroll
philosophical exercise expression
Constitutions are not designed for metaphysical or logical subtleties, for niceties of expression, for critical propriety, for elaborate shades of meaning, or for the exercise of philosophical acuteness or judicial research. They are instruments of a practical nature, founded on the common business of human life, adapted to common wants, designed for common use, and fitted for common understandings. Joseph Story
philosophical civilization play
Civilizations die from philosophical calm, irony, and a sense of fair play quite as surely as they die of debauchery. Joseph Wood Krutch
philosophical writing thoughtful
Most thoughts are only profiles of thoughts. They must be inverted and synthesized with their antipodes. Thus many philosophical writings become very interesting which would not have been so otherwise. Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
philosophical thinking rivals
With respect to ingenious subconsciousness, I think, philosophers might well rival poets.
philosophical poetic rhetorical
The poetry of this one is called philosophical, of that one philological, of a third rhetorical, and so on. Which is then the poetic poetry?
philosophical thinking people
People habituate themselves to let things pass through their minds, as one may speak, rather than to think of them. Thus by use they become satisfied merely with seeing what is said, without going any further. Review and attention, and even forming a judgment, becomes fatigue; and to lay anything before them that requires it, is putting them quite out of their way. Joseph Butler
philosophical needs cards
Like any joker, he was watching For the card that is so high and wild He'll never need to deal another He was just some Joseph looking for a manger Leonard Cohen
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
philosophical animal vegetarianism
It is necessary to correct the error that vegetarianism has made us weak in mind, or passive or inert in action. I do not regard flesh-food as necessary at any stage