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philosophy real moving
When I teach a new group of students, I introduce some yoga philosophy, but I don't overload them with information. Just enough so they understand the real tradition behind this ancient practice and that it's not a stretching class. Guys come in and they're a little nervous. I tell them that when they cross the threshold of the door, they're crossing to a different dimension. They're moving from an externally-oriented reality to an internally-oriented one. James Fox
philosophy philosopher fine
Philosophy has a fine saying for everything.-For Death it has an entire set. Laurence Sterne
philosophy world may
Science may eventually explain the world of How. The ultimate world of Why may remain for contemplation, philosophy, religion. Liberty Hyde Bailey
philosophical paris looks
Look at the Paris Commune. That was the Dictatorship of the Proletariat. Friedrich Engels
philosophical civilization greed
From the first day to this, sheer greed was the driving spirit of civilization. Friedrich Engels
philosophical law criminals
Some laws of state aimed at curbing crime are even more criminal. Friedrich Engels
philosophy guiding-principles often-is
The task of the political philosopher can only be to influence public opinion, not to organize people for action. He will do so effectively only if he is not concerned with what is now politically possible but consistently defends the "general principles which are always the same." In this sense I doubt whether there can be such a thing as a conservative political philosophy. Conservatism may often be a useful practical maxim, but it does not give us any guiding principles which can influence long-range developments. Friedrich August von Hayek
philosophy psychology prejudice
If I am not mistaken, psychology, psychiatry and some branches of sociology, not to speak about the so-called philosophy of history, are even more affected by what I have called the scientistic prejudice, and by specious claims of what science can achieve. Friedrich August von Hayek
philosophy medicine three
Knowledge, the object of knowledge and the knower are the three factors which motivate action; the senses, the work and the doer comprise the threefold basis of action. Friedrich Schiller
philosophy teaching men
The energy available for each individual man is his income, and the philosophy which can teach him to be content with penury should be capable of teaching him also the uses of wealth. Frederick Soddy
philosophy ideas people
Frankly, I do not like the idea of conversations to define the term "unconditional surrender."The German people can have dinned into their ears what I said in my Christmas Eve speech--in effect, that we have no thought of destroying the German people and that we want them to live through the generations like other European peoples on condition, of course, that they get rid of their present philosophy of conquest. Franklin D. Roosevelt
philosophy philosophical profound
The science of systematics has long been affected by profound philosophical preconceptions, which have been all the more influential for being usually covert, even subconscious. George Gaylord Simpson
philosophy writing rocks
Everyone eventually winds up writing about themselves - the problem is finding the best way to go about it. To write about oneself literally, in the first person, presumes a more interesting personal life and philosophy than most rock lyricists possess. John Lennon was good for one great album based on musical direct address, 'Plastic Ono Band. Jon Landau
philosophy eye thinking
When I open my eyes I must sigh, for what I see is contrary to my religion, and I must despise the world which does not know that music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy. Ludwig van Beethoven
philosophy difficulty knows
The difficulty in philosophy is to say no more than we know. Ludwig Wittgenstein
philosophy logical clarification
The object of philosophy is the logical clarification of thought. Ludwig Wittgenstein
philosophical different philosopher
There is not a philosophical method, though there are indeed methods, like different therapies. Ludwig Wittgenstein
philosophy philosopher consciousness
The philosopher strives to find the liberating word, that is, the word that finally permits us to grasp what up to now has intangibly weighed down upon our consciousness. Ludwig Wittgenstein
philosophy theory activity
Philosophy is not a theory but an activity. Ludwig Wittgenstein
philosophical thinking disease
A main cause of philosophical disease-an unbalanced diet: one nourishes one's thinking with only one kind of example. Ludwig Wittgenstein
philosophy book blue
Russell's books should be bound in two colours, those dealing with mathematical logic in red - and all students of philosophy should read them; those dealing with ethics and politics in blue - and no one should be allowed to read them. Ludwig Wittgenstein
philosophical ladders world
My propositions serve as elucidations in the following way: anyone who understands me eventually recognizes them as nonsensical, when he has used them--as steps--to climb up beyond them. (He must, so to speak, throw away the ladder after he has climbed up it.) He must transcend these propositions, and then he will see the whole world aright. Ludwig Wittgenstein
philosophy glasses firsts
I'm doing philosophy like an old woman, first I'm looking for my pencil, then I'm looking for my glasses, then I'm looking for my pencil again. Ludwig Wittgenstein
philosophical giving logic
It is possible--indeed possible even according to the old conception of logic--to give in advance a description of all 'true' logical propositions. Hence there can never be surprises in logic. Ludwig Wittgenstein
philosophical reap remarks
There are remarks that sow and remarks that reap. Ludwig Wittgenstein
philosophical common-sense temptation
One can defend common sense against the attacks of philosophers only by solving their puzzles, i.e., by curing them of the temptation to attack common sense.... Ludwig Wittgenstein
philosophical said
What can be shown, cannot be said. Ludwig Wittgenstein
philosophy philosophical bottles
What is your aim in philosophy? To show the fly the way out of the fly-bottle. Ludwig Wittgenstein
philosophical independent world
The world is independent of my will. Ludwig Wittgenstein
philosophical contradiction tautology
Propositions show what they say: tautologies and contradictions show that they say nothing. Ludwig Wittgenstein
philosophical sleep science
Man has to awaken to wonder - and so perhaps do peoples. Science is a way of sending him to sleep again. Ludwig Wittgenstein
philosophy want sound
Sometimes, in doing philosophy, one just wants to utter an inarticulate sound. Ludwig Wittgenstein
philosophy irritation long
Philosophy hasn't made any progress? - If somebody scratches the spot where he has an itch, do we have to see some progress? Isn't genuine scratching otherwise, or genuine itching itching? And can't this reaction to an irritation continue in the same way for a long time before a cure for the itching is discovered? Ludwig Wittgenstein