Quotes about phil
philosophy philosophical ocean
Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck. Immanuel Kant
philosophical men complaining
If man makes himself a worm he must not complain when he is trodden on.
philosophical intuition blind
Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.
philosophy sleep effort
Nixon was the one force in Montgomery for a number of years that made any effort in the direction of challenging the power structure. Ed Nixon's source of direction for that comes out of his relationship with the Brotherhood of Sleeping Care Porters and the Randolph philosophy of mass action. So, Ed Nixon really was the force that conceived of the boycott and drew up the original papers for the boycott. Ella Baker
philosophical views civilization
...What is at stake is civilization and humanity, nothing less. The idea that everything is permitted, as Nietzsche put it, rests on the premise of nihilism and has nihilistic implications. I will not pretend that the case against nihilism and for civilization is an easy one to make. We are here confronting the most fundamental of philosophical questions, on the deepest levels. In short, the matter of pornography and obscenity is not a trivial one, and only superficial minds can take a bland and untroubled view of it. Irving Kristol
philosophy wake-up today
My philosophy is I take today, live it the best way I can and if I wake up I'll take another shot at tomorrow. Paul Henderson
philosophy acting life-philosophy
Strive to be authentic all the time. That's sort of my philosophy on life, which applies to acting. Paul Guilfoyle
philosophy yoga ideas
My own interest in Yoga came from a vague understanding of Indian thought and Indian philosophy in the late sixties and early seventies and from looking at the idea of meditation and at what meditation was. Paul Harvey
philosophy creative promise
The promise of business is to increase the general well-being of humankind through service, a creative invention and ethical philosophy. Paul Hawken
philosophy party media
In fact - statistically, as you know - people have done polls, research, and at least 80 percent or more or working media are liberal Democrats if they are involved with any party and certainly liberal in their philosophy. Pat Boone
philosophy heaven world
I begin to perceive that I am a woman. What that is, heaven knows... the philosophy is yet to be written, there is a world to be explored. Pam Gems
philosophy mean self
Science can only be comprehended epistemologically , which means as one category of possible knowledge , as long as knowledge is not equated either effusively with the absolute knowledge of a great philosophy or blindly with scientistic self-understanding of the actual business of research. Jurgen Habermas
philosophy philosophical names
Philosophy's position with regard to science, which at one time could be designated with the name "theory of knowledge," has been undermined by the movement of philosophical thought itself. Philosophy was dislodged from this position by philosophy.
philosophy nuclear deterrence
The present basic philosophy is nuclear deterrence. Joseph Rotblat
philosophical world materialism
Marxism is not only the theory of socialism, it is an integral world outlook, a philosophical system, from which Marx’s proletarian socialism logically follows. This philosophical system is called dialectical materialism. Joseph Stalin
philosophy reality astrology
There is a philosophy that says that if something is unobservable -- unobservable in principle -- it is not part of science. If there is no way to falsify or confirm a hypothesis, it belongs to the realm of metaphysical speculation, together with astrology and spiritualism. By that standard, most of the universe has no scientific reality -- it's just a figment of our imaginations. Leonard Susskind
philosophy moving minorities
We must set an example now and move environmentalism from being the philosophy of a passionate minority ... to a way of life that automatically integrates ecology into governmental policy and normal living standards. Leonardo DiCaprio
philosophy painting despise
He who despises painting has no love for the philosophy in nature. Leonardo da Vinci
philosophy knowing ends
Oh! Speculators on things, boast not of knowing the things that nature ordinarily brings about; but rejoice if you know the end of those things which you yourself device.
philosophy decision path
There is no shorter path for joining a neutral existential anthropology, according to philosophy, with the existential decision before God, according to the Bible. Paul Ricoeur
philosophy men blue
You are to consider that a certain melancholy and often a certain irascibility accompany advancing age: indeed it might be said that advancing age equals ill-temper. On reaching the middle years a man perceives that he is no longer able to do certain things, that what looks he may have had are deserting him, that he has a ponderous great belly, and that however much he may yet burn he is no longer attractive to women; and he rebels. Fortitude, resignation and philosophy are of more value than any pills, red, white or blue. Patrick O'Brian
philosophy reality blessing
the blessings of matrimony, like those of poverty, belong rather to philosophy than reality. Letitia Elizabeth Landon
philosophy might fundamentals
My fundamental philosophy is that you owe it to society to transfer to them any knowledge you have that might be useful. Leroy Hood
philosophy mistake class
The bourgeoisie, which far surpasses the proletariat in the completeness and irreconcilibility of its class consciousness, is vitally interested in imposing its moral philosophy upon the exploited masses. It is exactly for this purpose that the concrete norms of the bourgeois catechism are concealed under moral abstractions...The appeal to abstract norms is not a disinterested philosophic mistake but a necessary element in the mechanics of class deception. Leon Trotsky
philosophy love-you wells
If you do not love yourself, well, you cannot do anything well, that's my philosophy. Nawal El Saadawi
philosophy mere
Words, without power, is mere philosophy. Muhammad Iqbal
philosophy reality inquiry
The spirit of philosophy is one of free inquiry. It suspects all authority. Its function is to trace the uncritical assumptions of human thought to their hiding places, and in this pursuit it may finally end in denial or a frank admission of the incapacity of pure reason to reach the ultimate reality.
philosophy heart burning
When truth has no burning, then it is philosophy, when it gets burning from the heart, it becomes poetry.
philosophy party power
Power is a central issue in social and personal transformation. Our sources and uses of power set our boundaries, give form to our relationships, even determine how much we let ourselves liberate and express aspects of the self. More than party registration, more than our purported philosophy or ideology, personal power defines our politics. Marilyn Ferguson
philosophy eye leaving
The reason I can't follow the old eye-for-an-eye philosophy is that it ends up leaving everyone blind. Martin Luther King, Jr.
philosophy way brilliant
We must be concerned not merely about who murdered them, but about the system, the way of life, the philosophy which produced the murderers .
philosophy survival has-beens
The Darwinian concept of the survival of the fittest has been substituted by a philosophy of the survival of the slickest.
philosophy men glowing
In spite of its glowing talk about the welfare of the masses, Communism's methods and philosophy strip man of his dignity and worth, leaving him as little more than a depersonalized cog in the ever-turning wheel of the state.