Quotes about phil
philosophical age ornaments
Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age. Aristotle
philosophical possibility mathematical
Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities.
philosophical constitution states
A constitution is the arrangement of magistracies in a state.
philosophical men repentance
Bad men are full of repentance.
philosophical class perfect
The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes.
philosophy wonder
Philosophy begins with wonder.
philosophical mean character
Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion.
philosophical passion law
The law is reason, free from passion.
philosophical insanity soul
No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness.
philosophical law written
Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered.
philosophical history poetry
Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.
philosophy science
Philosophy is the science which considers truth.
philosophical doe vain
Nature does nothing in vain.
philosophical cities city-life
A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.
philosophical soul-and-body figures
We must no more ask whether the soul and body are one than ask whether the wax and the figure impressed on it are one.
philosophical tyrants people
Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms.
philosophical equality egalitarianism
The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
philosophy men animal
At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst.
philosophical historical society
Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms.
philosophy fire causes
If you don't like my fire, then don't come around. Cause I'm gonna burn one down. Ben Harper
philosophy light shining
A candle throws its light into the darkness, in a nasty world so shines a good deed. Make sure the fortune that you seek is the fortune that you need.
philosophy taught application
Philosophy cannot be taught; it is the application of the sciences to truth. Alexandre Dumas
philosophical animal needs
We need a boundless ethics which will include animals also. Albert Schweitzer
philosophy opposites doe
At the bottom of philosophy something very true and very desperate whispers: Everyone is hungry all the time. Everyone is starving. Everyone wants so much, much more than they can stomach, but the appetite doesn't converse much with the stomach. Everyone is hungry and not only for food - for comfort and love and excitement and the opposite of being alone. Almost everything awful anyone does is to get those things and keep them. Catherynne M. Valente
philosophy philosophical home
All philosophies, if you ride them home, are nonsense, but some are greater nonsense than others. Samuel Butler
philosophical thinking order
I think there is a profound and enduring beauty in simplicity; in clarity, in efficiency. True simplicity is derived from so much more than just the absence of clutter and ornamentation. It's about bringing order to complexity. Jonathan Ive
philosophy math water
Consider the concepts referred to in the words 'where', 'when', 'why', 'being', to the elucidation of which innumerable volumes of philosophy have been devoted. We fare no better in our speculations than a fish which should strive to become clear as to what is water. Albert Einstein
philosophy historical privilege
Those who have the privilege to know have the duty to act.
philosophy philosophical swallowing
When I study philosophical works I feel I am swallowing something which I don't have in my mouth.
philosophy reality want
Everything is Energy and that is all there is to it. Match the frequency of the reality you want and you can not help but get that reality. It can be no other way. This is not philosophy. This is physics.
philosophy misanthrope idealist
I am a misanthrope and yet utterly benevolent, have more than one screw loose yet am a super-idealist who digests philosophy more efficiently than food. Alfred Nobel
philosophy effort romance
Philosophy is the product of wonder. The effort after the general characterization of the world around us is the romance of human thought. Alfred North Whitehead
philosophy danger chiefs
The chief danger to philosophy is narrowness in the selection of evidence.