Quotes about phil
philosophy reading writing
When I'm not writing, I read loads of fiction, but I've been writing quite constantly lately so I've been reading a lot of nonfiction - philosophy, religion, science, history, social or cultural studies. Irvine Welsh
philosophy moving literature
In philosophy if you aren't moving at a snail's pace you aren't moving at all. Iris Murdoch
philosophy views political
We need a moral philosophy which can speak significantly of Freud and Marx and out of which aesthetic and political views can be generated. We need a moral philosophy in which the concept of love, so rarely mentioned now, can once again be made central.
philosophy men thinking
Philosophy! Empty thinking by ignorant conceited men who think they can digest without eating!
philosophical artist unhappy
Every artist is an unhappy lover.
philosophy thinking ideas
I think philosophy is extremely good training for anyone who wants to do anything. Although that is an idea which people may speak scornfully of now, I think it does teach one to
philosophy understanding kind
Learning philosophy is learning a particular kind of intuitive understanding.
philosophy intriguing blind
The history of mathematics, lacking the guidance of philosophy, [is] blind, while the philosophy of mathematics, turning its back on the most intriguing phenomena in the history of mathematics, is empty. Imre Lakatos
philosophy blind empty
Philosophy of science without history of science is empty; history of science without philosophy of science is blind.
philippines west east
The Philippines is in a strategic position. It is both East and West, right and left, rich and poor. We are neither here nor there. Imelda Marcos
philippines
We practically own everything in the Philippines.
philosophy greatness college
I thought I might teach philosophy but the atmosphere of a college faculty repelled me; the few islands of greatness seemed to be washed by seas of pettiness and mediocrity. I. F. Stone
philosophy suffering why-not
Why not me? Suffering, she understood, is, in fact, random, universal. Gloria Vanderbilt
philosophical giving
Time takes all and gives all Giordano Bruno
philosophy understood gems
The gems of philosophy are not less precious because they are not understood.
philosophy night giving
I need not instruct you of my belief: Time gives all and takes all away ; everything changes but nothing perishes ; One only is immutable, eternal and ever endures, one and the same with itself. With this philosophy my spirit grows, my mind expands. Whereof, how r ever obscure the night may be, I await daybreak, and they who dwell in day look for night Rejoice therefore, and keep whole, if you can, and return love for love.
philosophy true-to-yourself
Remain true to yourself and your philosophy. Giorgio Armani
philosophy important clubs
My philosophy is that the club is more important than anyone!
philosophy numbers rainbow
There is no one kind of thing that we 'perceive' but many different kinds, the number being reducible if at all by scientific investigation and not by philosophy: pens are in many ways though not in all ways unlike rainbows, which are in many ways though not in all ways unlike after-images, which in turn are in many ways but not in all ways unlike pictures on the cinema-screen--and so on. J. L. Austin
philosophy expression quality
The beginning of sense, not to say wisdom, is to realize that 'doing an action,' as used in philosophy, is a highly abstract expression--it is a stand-in used in the place of any (or almost any?) verb with a personal subject, in the same sort of way that 'thing' is a stand-in for anynoun substantive, and 'quality' a stand-in for the adjective.
philosophy want rooms
My philosophy: find what it is you want to say, walk in the room, say it, and get the hell out. J. Michael Straczynski
philosophy two skulls
Temperament is fixed, set. The skull, followed by the temperament: the two hardest parts of the body. Follow your temperament. It is not a philosophy, It is a rule, like the Rule of St Benedict. J. M. Coetzee
philosophy expectations people
Should philosophers be expected to change the world? Such an expectation seems to me extravagant. Marx himself didn't change the world: he reinterpreted it, then other people changed it.
philosophy philosophical expression
Music expresses feeling, that is to say, gives shape and habitation to feeling, not in space but in time. To the extent that music has a history that is more than a history of its formal evolution, our feelings must have a history too. Perhaps certain qualities of feeling that found expression in music can be recorded by being notated on paper, have become so remote that we can no longer inhabit them as feelings, can get a grasp of them only after long training in the history and philosophy of music, the philosophical history of music, the history of music as a history of the feeling soul.
philosophical sheep enlightenment
I want to find a way of speaking to fellow human beings that will be cool rather than heated, philosophical rather than polemical, that will bring enlightenment rather than seeking to divide us into the righteous and the sinners, the saved and the damned, the sheep and the goats.
philosophy voice biographies
According to Nietzche," said a sharp new voice, making them all jump, "philosophy is the biography of the philosopher. J. K. Rowling
philosophy simple magnificent
Like all magnificent things, it's very simple. Natalie Babbitt
philosophy materialism blind
Because a human is a someone and not a something, the source of human life must also be a Someone - not the blind, automatic forces of nature, as philosophies like naturalism and materialism tell us. Nancy Pearcey
philosophy reality people
A worldview is not the same things a formal philosophy, otherwise it would only be for philosophers. Even ordinary people have a set of convictions about how reality functions and how they should live. Some convictions are conscious while others are unconscious but together they form a consistent picture of reality.
philosophy idols reason
Can reason be an idol? Certainly. The philosophy of rationalism puts human reason in the place of God as the source and standard of all truth.
philosophy biblical order
An idol is not necessarily something concrete, like a golden calf. It can also be something abstract, like matter. Is matter part of the created order? Sure it is. So the philosophy of materialism qualifies as an idol in the biblical sense.
philosophy data tests
The whole point of building theoretical systems is to explain what humans know by pre-theoretical experience. That is the starting point for any philosophy. That is the data it seeks to explain. If it fails to explain the data of experience, then it has failed the test. It has been falsified.
philosophy government demand
It is function of government to invent philosophies to explain the demands of its own convenience. Murray Kempton