Quotes about philosophical
philosophical historical serious
For this reason poetry is something more philosophical and more worthy of serious attention than history. Aristotle
philosophical men political
A man who examines each subject from a philosophical standpoint cannot neglect them: he has to omit nothing, and state the truth about each topic.
philosophical order inquiring
for we are inquiring not in order to know what virtue is, but in order to become good, since otherwise our inquiry would have been of no use
philosophical highest
Happiness is the highest good
philosophical mean pleasure
Temperance is a mean with regard to pleasures.
philosophical men uprising
Those who excel in virtue have the best right of all to rebel, but then they are of all men the least inclined to do so.
philosophical humor secret-love
The secret to humor is surprise.
philosophical ignorance knowledge
For it is owing to their wonder that men both now begin and at first began to philosophize.... And a man who is puzzled and wonders thinks himself ignorant ...; therefore since they philosophized in order to escape from ignorance, evidently they were pursuing science in order to know, and not for any utilitarian end.
philosophical taken eye
No notice is taken of a little evil, but when it increases it strikes the eye.
philosophical age ornaments
Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age.
philosophical possibility mathematical
Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities.
philosophical constitution states
A constitution is the arrangement of magistracies in a state.
philosophical men repentance
Bad men are full of repentance.
philosophical class perfect
The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes.
philosophical mean character
Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion.
philosophical passion law
The law is reason, free from passion.
philosophical insanity soul
No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness.
philosophical law written
Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered.
philosophical history poetry
Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.
philosophical doe vain
Nature does nothing in vain.
philosophical cities city-life
A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.
philosophical soul-and-body figures
We must no more ask whether the soul and body are one than ask whether the wax and the figure impressed on it are one.
philosophical tyrants people
Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms.
philosophical equality egalitarianism
The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
philosophical historical society
Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms.
philosophical men brave
The brave man is he who overcomes not only his enemies but his pleasures Democritus
philosophical objectivity doe
The philosopher forms his principles on an infinity of particular observations...He does not confuse truth with plausibility...he takes for truth what is true, for false what is false, for doubtful what is doubtful, and probable what is probable...The philosophical spirit is thus a spirit of observation and accuracy. Denis Diderot
philosophical crafts may
However much I may like to talk about or be interested in a more philosophical or moral agenda, [film] is, ultimately, about narrative. And it's about telling stories that are engaging and dramatic. Edward Zwick
philosophical white black
In it he proves that all things are true and states how the truths of all contradictions may be reconciled physically, such as for example that white is black and black is white; that one can be and not be at the same time; that there can be hills without valleys; that nothingness is something and that everything, which is, is not. But take note that he proves all these unheard-of paradoxes without any fallacious or sophistical reasoning. Cyrano de Bergerac
philosophical journey thinking
As a filmmaker, I ask questions but don't have answers. Moviemaking is a philosophical exploration. I invite the audience to come on the journey and discover what they think and feel. David Cronenberg
philosophical tired thinking
There are signs, these days, that the cultural hegemony of postmodernism is weakening in the West. When even the developers tell an architect like Moshe Safdie that they are tired of it, then can philosophical thinking be far behind? David Harvey
philosophical beer government
An oppressive government is more to be feared than a tiger. Confucius
philosophical ideas names
We know next to nothing with any certainty about Pythagoras, except that he was not really called Pythagoras. The name by which he is known to us was probably a nickname bestowed by his followers. According to one source, it meant ‘He who spoke truth like an oracle’. Rather than entrust his mathematical and philosophical ideas to paper, Pythagoras is said to have expounded them before large crowds. The world’s most famous mathematician was also its first rhetorician. Daniel Tammet