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philosophical heart men
I know nothing of philosophical philanthropy. But I know what I have seen, and what I have looked in the face in this world here, where I find myself. And I tell you this, my friend, that there are people (men and women both, unfortunately) who have no good in them-none. That there are people whom it is necessary to detest without compromise. That there are people who must be dealt with as enemies of the human race. That there are people who have no human heart, and who must be crushed like savage beasts and cleared out of the way. Charles Dickens
philosophical ideas welcome
I'm not from a milieu where high-register language or philosophical ideas were welcome. David Mitchell
philosophical perspective humanity
There is today-in a time when old beliefs are withering-a kind of philosophical hunger, a need to know who we are and how we got here. It is an on-going search, often unconscious, for a cosmic perspective for humanity Carl Sagan
philosophical two mind
The greatest sci-fis, in my mind, are two things: They're what-ifs - what if this happened, and you get to see it - but they're also these philosophical cautionary tales. They deal with the underlying themes beneath the what-if. Bryce Dallas Howard
philosophical thinking hands
Homeric mind is ingenuity, practical intelligence. There is no Rodin-like deep thinking, no mathematical or philosophical speculation. Odysseus thinks with his hands. Camille Paglia
philosophical night darkness
A great cause of the night is lack of the sun. William Shakespeare
philosophical men magic
Do you come to a philosopher as to a cunning man, to learn something by magic or witchcraft, beyond what can be known by common prudence and discretion? David Hume
philosophical growth divinity
Scholastic learning and polemical divinity retarded the growth of all true knowledge.
philosophical world advantage
No advantages in this world are pure and unmixed.
views christ superficial
The more you know about Christ, the less you will be satisfied with superficial views of Him. Charles Spurgeon
views people film
The films that I do tend to polarise people's views. Alan Parker
views mind lovely
One can only display complex information in the mind. Like seeing, movement or flow or alteration of view is more important than the static picture, no matter how lovely. Alan Perlis
views years organization
One has to work for years and decades, to conduct negotiations, to stand for positions and points of view, to jointly develop a civilized view on the administrative and state organization of Chechnya. Akhmad Kadyrov
views evil causes
A low view of God is the cause of a hundred lesser evils. A high view of God is the solution to ten thousand temporal problems. Aiden Wilson Tozer
views lows
Low views of God destroy the gospel for all who hold them.
views ego enlightenment
The attainment of enlightenment from ego's point of view is extreme death. Chogyam Trungpa
views extending fearlessness
Fearlessness is extending ourselves beyond our limited view.
views people helping
The point is not to convert anyone to our view, but rather to help people wake to their own view, their own sanity.
civilization luxury selfishness
A semi-civilized state of society, equally removed from the extremes of barbarity and of refinement, seems to be that particular meridian under which all the reciprocities and gratuities of hospitality do most readily flourish and abound. For it so happens that the ease, the luxury, and the abundance of the highest state of civilization, are as productive of selfishness, as the difficulties, the privations, and the sterilities of he lowest. Charles Caleb Colton
civilization saws ends
I saw someone peeing in Jermym Street the other day. I thought, is this the end of civilization as we know it? Or is it simply someone peeing in Jermyn Street? Alan Bennett
civilization solitude going-out
Modern civilization is so complex as to make the devotional life all but impossible. It wears us out by multiplying distractions and beats us down by destroying our solitude, where otherwise we might drink and renew our strength before going out to face the world again.
civilization doubt moral
I have no doubt that historians will conclude that we of the twentieth century had intelligence enough to create a great civilization but not the moral wisdom to preserve it.
civilization stuff jingles
Freedom!- is the fatuous jingle of our civilization, but only those deprived of it have the barest inkling re: what the stuff actually is.
civilization creating alternatives
It's a difficult business, creating a new, alternative civilization. David Graeber
civilization climate-change humans
More than any other time in history, the 1990s will be a turning point for human civilization. David Suzuki
civilization age generations
Generations do not age. Every youth of any period, any civilization, has the same possibilities as always. Cesare Pavese
civilization savages fragility
They do not understand the fragility of civilization and the constant nearness of savage nature.