Quotes about philosophical
philosophical views profound
Linguistic philosophers continue to argue that probably music is not a language, that is in the philosophical debate. Another point of view is to say that music is a very profound language. Robert Fripp
philosophical
Omnia apud me mathematica fiunt. Rene Descartes
philosophical doubt firsts
The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt.
philosophical probability probable-cause
Variant: When it is not in our power to follow what is true, we ought to follow what is most probable.
philosophical secure
The only secure knowledge is that I exist.
philosophical
De omnibus dubitandum
philosophical gun philosopher
Every philosophical thinker hails it [The Origin of Species] as a veritable Whitworth gun in the armoury of liberalism. Thomas Huxley
philosophical years two
We can either have a twenty-first-century conversation about morality and the human well-being - a conversation in which we avail ourselves of all scientific insights and philosophical arguments that have accumulated in the last two thousand years of human discourse - or we can confine ourselves to a first-century conversation as it is preserved in the Bible. Sam Harris
philosophical giving society
If everybody is rewarded just for being alive, you get the same sort of effect as you do when you reward every student just for being enrolled. You destroy not only education, you destroy society by giving A's to everyone. This is a philosophical consideration that bothers me very much as I sit in the United States Senate and see the great budget allocations going through. S. I. Hayakawa
philosophical character writing
Like Flannery O'Connor, McCorkle's genius is to give us both philosophical speculation and a riveting narrative filled with unforgettable characters. Great writing, poignancy, humor, wisdom-all are in abundance here. Jill McCorkle is one of the South's greatest writers; she is also one of America's. Ron Rash
philosophical writing smoking
Good evening, Lord Corwin,' said the lean, cadaverous figure who rested against a storage rack, smoking his pipe, grinning around it. Good evening, Roger. How are things in the nether world?' A rat, a bat, a spider. Nothing much else astir. Peaceful.' You enjoy this duty?' He nodded. I am writing a philosophical romance shot through with elements of horror and morbidity. I work on those parts down here. Roger Zelazny
philosophical vistas toothache
Even the most heartening of philosophical vistas is no match for, say, a toothache, if it happens to be your own.
philosophical destiny poet
This seems to me a philosophical question, and therefore irrelevant, question. A poet's destiny is to love. Robert Graves
philosophical thinking justice
I do think you have sort of a general philosophical approach that you want from a justice, and I think a strict constructionist would be probably the way I'd describe it. Rudy Giuliani
philosophical years doctors
Even if the doctor does not give you a year, even if he hesitates about a month, make one brave push and see what can be accomplished in a week. Robert Louis Stevenson
philosophical islamic doubt
The philosophical connection between the Islamic world and the West is much closer than I thought. Doubt did not begin with Descartes. We have this construction today that the West and Islam are entirely separate worlds. This is wrong. Tariq Ramadan
philosophical games good-years
You have good games, you have bad games. You have good years, you have bad years. I have always been kind of philosophical about that. Steve Nash
philosophical order world
For what are myths if not the imposing of order on phenomena that do not possess order in themselves? And all myths, however they differ from philosophical systems and scientific theories, share this with them, that they negate the principle of randomness in the world. Stanislaw Lem
philosophical leafs stuck
We are like snails, each stuck to his own leaf.
philosophical thinking political
In terms of political things, I think it's important to be more direct in terms of political statements. I think in terms of philosophical and things that you plant things and see them grow lyrically or musically, it's okay to be subtle. Serj Tankian
philosophical night people
Godshawk looked surprised, the way that people generally do when you ask them philosophical questions in shrubberies in the middle of the night. Philip Reeve
philosophical mean reality
Science fiction is very well suited to asking philosophical questions; questions about the nature of reality, what it means to be human, how do we know the things that we think we know. Ted Chiang
philosophical reality trying
When you're young you try to be methodical and philosophical, but reality keeps breaking in. Randall Jarrell
philosophical moral assuming
It is always incorrect to assume you can know what someone's moral convictions are based on their philosophical theories. Stanley Fish
philosophical wish maps
You're free to speculate as you wish about the philosophical and allegorical meaning of the film—and such speculation is one indication that it has succeeded in gripping the audience at a deep level—but I don't want to spell out a verbal road map for 2001 that every viewer will feel obligated to pursue or else fear he's missed the point. Stanley Kubrick
philosophical risk height
Who is also aware of the tremendous risk involved in faith - when he nevertheless makes the leap of faith - this [is] subjectivity ... at its height. Soren Kierkegaard
philosophical greek morality
If the ethical - that is, social morality- is the highest ... then no categories are needed other than the Greek philosophical categories.
philosophical knowledge men
With Nietzsche, the black pirates' flag appears for the first time on the high sea of German knowledge. (He is) a different man, from a different race, (his,) a new kind of heroism, philosophywith bellicose weapons and armor. Stefan Zweig
philosophical race years
Immanuel Kant lived with knowledge as with his lawfully wedded wife, slept with it in the same intellectual bed for forty years and begot an entire German race of philosophical systems.
philosophical vocabulary people
Language, the machine of the poet, is best fitted for his purpose in its rudest state. Nations, like individuals, first perceive, and then abstract. They advance from particular images to general terms. Hence the vocabulary of an enlightened society is philosophical, that of a half-civilized people is poetical. Thomas B. Macaulay
philosophical taken enemy
He that is taken and put into prison or chains is not conquered, though overcome; for he is still an enemy. Thomas Hobbes
philosophical dark leviathan
I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark.
philosophical men welcome
Such truth, as opposeth no man's profit, nor pleasure, is to all men welcome.