Quotes about phil
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
philosophy inspiration dust
All our philosophy is as dry as dust if it is not immediately translated into some act of living service.
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.
philosophy want giving-back
Be the change that you want to see
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
philosophy winning thinking
When I see big movies that are only about good versus evil, and the good guy wins, I only can think we're in a far more complicated world than that. I frankly think that this binary philosophy is actually a dangerous way to look at the world. Gavin Hood
philosophy want
I don't want to be anything other than me. Gavin DeGraw
philosophical government groups
Stripped of ethical rationalizations and philosophical pretensions, a crime is anything that a group in power chooses to prohibit. Freda Adler
philosophy moving ambition
The philosophy I shared... was one of ambition - ambition to succeed, ambition to grow, ambition to move forward - backed up by hard work. Frank Lowy
philosophy virtue skepticism
Skepticism is a virtue in history as well as in philosophy. Napoleon Bonaparte
philosophy war hate
The very existence of armaments and great armies psychologically accustoms us to accept the philosophy of militarism. They inevitably increase fear and hate in the world. Norman Thomas
philosophy clock exception
Somerset Maugham ... wrote somewhere that "Nobody is any better than he ought to be."... I carried it along with me as a working philosophy, but I suppose that finally I would have to take exception to the thought ... or else the universe is just an elaborate clock. Norman Mailer
philosophy simple delight
And so my militant philosophy is this: to make with a brush on canvas is a simple direct delight-to make with the movie is the same. Norman McLaren
philosophy meditation today
The philosophies behind meditation are very current today and are a way of finding some sort of peace. Orlando Bloom
philosophy tree sitting
The philosophy that I've embraced isn't about sitting under a tree and studying my navel
philosophy tree want
I don't want to be a tree; I want to be its meaning. Orhan Pamuk
philosophical emotional essence
True literature is more than just a story someone has told. It must provide the reader with the essence of the world on a moral, philosophical and emotional level.
philosophy philosophical science
Sign language is the equal of speech, lending itself equally to the rigorous and the poetic, to philosophical analysis or to making love. Oliver Sacks
philosophy war rip
There is a saying that no man has tasted the full flavour of life until he has known poverty, love and war. The justness of this reflection commends it to the lover of condensed philosophy. The three conditions embrace about all there is in life worth knowing. A surface thinker might deem that wealth should be added to the list. Not so. When a poor man finds a long-hidden quarter-dollar that has slipped through a rip into his vest lining, he sounds the pleasure of life with a deeper plummet than any millionaire can hope to cast. O. Henry
philosophy moving tools
We must strive to encourage East and West not only to move towards each other but also to encourage them to find a new philosophy, a philosophy which will serve as a tool determining the future of Planet Earth - our common and only shelter. Nursultan Nazarbayev
philosophy waking kind
Doing philosophy is only a threefold or double kind of waking--being awake--consciousness. Novalis
philosophy heart mean
Morality must be the heart of our existence, if it is to be what it wants to be for us. ... The highest form of philosophy is ethics. Thus all philosophy begins with "I am." The highest statement of cognition must be an expression of that fact which is the means and ground for all cognition, namely, the goal of the I.
philosophy home desire
Philosophy is really nostalgia, the desire to be at home.
philosophical air water
The best thing about the sciences is their philosophical ingredient, like life for an organic body. If one dephilosophizes the sciences, what remains left? Earth , air , and [[water.
philosophy self ideas
When one begins to reflect on philosophy—then philosophy seems to us to be everything, like God, and love. It is a mystical, highly potent, penetrating idea—which ceaselessly drives us inward in all directions. The decision to do philosophy—to seek philosophy is the act of self-liberation—the thrust toward ourselves.
philosophy bread immortality
Philosophy can bake no bread; but she can procure for us God , Freedom , Immortality. Which, then, is more practical, Philosophy or Economy ?
philosophy perfect design
Only the most perfect human being can design the most perfect philosophy.
philosophy home wish
Philosophy is properly home-sickness; the wish to be everywhere at home.
philosophy reflection delight
Philosophy ... bears witness to the deepest love of reflection, to absolute delight in wisdom.
philosophy understanding
The poem of the understanding is philosophy.
philosophy unexpected phantom-tollbooth
Expect everything, I always say, and the unexpected never happens. Norton Juster