Quotes about philosophical
philosophical men religion
Religion is more than life. Remember that his own religion is the truest to every man even if it stands low in the scales of philosophical comparison. Mahatma Gandhi
philosophical animal discovery
I abhor vivisection with my whole soul. All the scientific discoveries stained with innocent blood I count as of no consequence.
philosophical men animal
It is very significant that some of the most thoughtful and cultured men are partisans of a pure vegetable diet
philosophical government groups
Stripped of ethical rationalizations and philosophical pretensions, a crime is anything that a group in power chooses to prohibit. Freda Adler
philosophical romance stories
Christianity met the mythological search for romance by being a story and the philosophical search for truth by being a true story. Gilbert K. Chesterton
philosophical thinking doubt
Blasphemy is an artistic effect, because blasphemy depends upon a philosophical conviction. Blasphemy depends upon belief and is fading with it. If any one doubts this, let him sit down seriously and try to think blasphemous thoughts about Thor.
philosophical learning men
Mere poets are sottish as mere drunkards are, who live in a continual mist, without seeing or judging anything clearly. A man should be learned in several sciences, and should have a reasonable, philosophical and in some measure a mathematical head, to be a complete and excellent poet. John Dryden
philosophical punishment evil
Good and evil, reward and punishment, are the only motives to a rational creature John Locke
philosophical perspective evil
The dread of evil is a much more forcible principle of human actions than the prospect of good.
philosophical long world
Things of this world are in so constant a flux, that nothing remains long in the same state.
philosophical ideas mind
The mind is furnished with ideas by experience alone
philosophical justice injustice
Where there is no property there is no injustice.
philosophical support virtue
Fortitude is the guard and support of the other virtues.
philosophical knowledge science
No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience.
philosophical fruit-of-labor wealth
All wealth is the product of labor.
philosophical government ends
Government has no other end, but the preservation of property.
philosophical character discipline
The discipline of desire is the background of character.
philosophical parenting bitterness
Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain.
philosophical thinking wish
If I am not pleased with myself, but should wish to be other than I am, why should I think highly of the influences which have made me what I am? John Lancaster Spalding
philosophical phantoms steps
Each forward step we take we leave some phantom of ourselves behind.
philosophical thinking people
A lot of people see doubt as legitimate philosophical posture. They think of themselves in the middle, whereas of course really, they're nowhere. John le Carre
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 fields inquiry
We have to reconcile ourselves with philosophical questions in every field. Every field should be open to inquiry and knowledge. Tariq Ramadan
philosophical past action
And right action is freedom From past and future also. T. S. Eliot
philosophical sides biology
My interest in biology was pretty much always on the philosophical side. Richard Dawkins
philosophical character trying
If you thought you were trying to find out more about it because you're gonna get an answer to some deep philosophical question...you may be wrong! It may be that you can't get an answer to that particular question by finding out more about the character of nature. But my interest in science is to simply find out about the world. Richard P. Feynman
philosophical people intuition
People may come along and argue philosophically that they like one better than another; but we have learned from much experience that all philosophical intuitions about what nature is going to do fail.
philosophical special facts
Evolution is a theory in a special philosophical sense of science, but in terms of ordinary laymen's use of language, it's a fact, .. Evolution is a fact in the same sense that it's a fact that the Earth is round and not flat, [that] the Earth goes round the Sun. Both those are also theories, but they're theories that have never been disproved and never will be disproved.
philosophical fundamentalist-religion mind
As a scientist, I am hostile to fundamentalist religion because it actively debauches the scientific enterprise. It teaches us not to change our minds, and not to want to know exciting things that are available to be known. It subverts science and saps the intellect.
philosophical catholic needs
Find out how much God has given you and from it take what you need; the remainder is needed by others. Saint Augustine
philosophical heaven soul
This first glance of a soul which does not yet know itself is like dawn in the heavens; it is the awakening of something radiant and unknown. Victor Hugo
philosophical bird flying
Every bird that flies has the thread of the infinite in its claw.