Quotes about phil
philosophy light ignorant
As to the so-called Hindu idolatry - first go and learn the forms they are going through, and where it is that the worshippers are really worshipping, whether in the temple, in the image, or in the temple of their own bodies. First know for certain what they are doing - which more than ninety per cent of the revilers are thoroughly ignorant of - and then it will explain itself in the light of the Vedantic philosophy. Swami Vivekananda
philosophy men matter
Proselytism is tolerated by Hinduism. Any man, whether he be a Shudra or Chandala, can expound philosophy even to a Brahmin. The truth can be learnt from the lowest individual, no matter to what caste or creed he belongs.
philosophical moral assuming
It is always incorrect to assume you can know what someone's moral convictions are based on their philosophical theories. Stanley Fish
philosophical wish maps
You're free to speculate as you wish about the philosophical and allegorical meaning of the film—and such speculation is one indication that it has succeeded in gripping the audience at a deep level—but I don't want to spell out a verbal road map for 2001 that every viewer will feel obligated to pursue or else fear he's missed the point. Stanley Kubrick
philosophy men views
No philosophy based on an incorrect view of the nature of man is likely to produce social good.
philosophy science moments
Philosophy always requires something more, requires the eternal, the true, in contrast to which even the fullest existence as such is but a happy moment. Soren Kierkegaard
philosophical risk height
Who is also aware of the tremendous risk involved in faith - when he nevertheless makes the leap of faith - this [is] subjectivity ... at its height.
philosophical greek morality
If the ethical - that is, social morality- is the highest ... then no categories are needed other than the Greek philosophical categories.
philosophy offering favors
Theology sits rouged at the window and courts philosophy's favor, offering to sell her charms to it.
philosophy ignorance expression
One is not unpopular because he uses peculiar expressions; that just so happens; such terms become a fad, and by and by everybody, down to the last simpleton, uses them. But a person who follows through an idea in his mind is, and always will be, essentially unpopular. That is why Socrates was unpopular, though he did not use any special terms, for to grasp and hold his 'ignorance' requires greater vital effort than understanding the whole of Hegel's philosophy.
philosophy philosophical nurse
Philosophy is life's dry-nurse, who can take care of us - but not suckle us.
philosophy umpires world
Where am I? Who am I? How did I come to be here? What is this thing called the world? How did I come into the world? Why was I not consulted? And If I am compelled to take part in it, where is the director? I want to see him.
philosophy wine good-food
I fell in love with the Mediterranean philosophy of good wine, good food and family. Stephen White
philosophical knowledge men
With Nietzsche, the black pirates' flag appears for the first time on the high sea of German knowledge. (He is) a different man, from a different race, (his,) a new kind of heroism, philosophywith bellicose weapons and armor. Stefan Zweig
philosophical race years
Immanuel Kant lived with knowledge as with his lawfully wedded wife, slept with it in the same intellectual bed for forty years and begot an entire German race of philosophical systems.
philosophy law fidelity
My judicial philosophy is fidelity to the law. Sonia Sotomayor
philosophy believe law
I'm a common law judge. I believe in deciding every case on its facts, not on a legal philosophy. And I believe in deciding each case in the most limited way possible, because common law judges have a firm belief that the best development of the law is the one that lets society show you the next step, and that next step is in the new facts that each case presents.
philosophy thinking ideas
Philosophy wasn't about facts, it was about ideas. My first essay title was something like: 'How can you know what other people are thinking?' I thought, 'Wow, what an amazing thing.' I really thought deeply for the first time. Sophie Kinsella
philosophical vocabulary people
Language, the machine of the poet, is best fitted for his purpose in its rudest state. Nations, like individuals, first perceive, and then abstract. They advance from particular images to general terms. Hence the vocabulary of an enlightened society is philosophical, that of a half-civilized people is poetical. Thomas B. Macaulay
philosophy men should
To sum up the whole, we should say that the aim of the Platonic philosophy was to exalt man into a god.
philosophical taken enemy
He that is taken and put into prison or chains is not conquered, though overcome; for he is still an enemy. Thomas Hobbes
philosophy men names
Moral philosophy is nothing else but the science of what is good, and evil, in the conversation, and society of mankind. Good, and evil, are names that signify our appetites, and aversions; which in different tempers, customs, and doctrines of men, are different.
philosophy book law
The Interpretation of the Laws of Nature in a Common-wealth, dependeth not on the books of Moral Philosophy. The Authority of writers, without the Authority of the Commonwealth, maketh not their opinions Law, be they never so true.
philosophical dark leviathan
I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark.
philosophical men welcome
Such truth, as opposeth no man's profit, nor pleasure, is to all men welcome.
philosophy thinking government
I think that [there is] this fundamental right to privacy and the philosophy that government shouldn't be intrusive. Tim Cook
philosophical engineering physics
The Web is now philosophical engineering. Physics and the Web are both about the relationship between the small and the large. Tim Berners-Lee
philosophy law able
What chemists took from Dalton was not new experimental laws but a new way of practicing chemistry (he himself called it the 'new system of chemical philosophy'), and this proved so rapidly fruitful that only a few of the older chemists in France and Britain were able to resist it. Thomas Kuhn
philosophical thinking unlocking
It is, I think, particularly in periods of acknowledged crisis that scientists have turned to philosophical analysis as a device for unlocking the riddles of their field. Scientists have not generally needed or wanted to be philosophers.
philosophy inspiration journey
The most fortunate of us, in our journey through life, frequently meet with calamities and misfortunes which may greatly afflict us; and, to fortify our minds against the attacks of these calamities and misfortunes, should be one of the principal studies and endeavors of our lives. Thomas Jefferson
philosophical motherhood years
Surrogate motherhood has been the subject of much philosophical and political dispute over the years. Thomas Frank
philosophical choices our-choices
We Are The Sum Total Of Our Choices... Woody Allen
philosophy believe character
A general philosophy of the female characters in my films is they all want something to believe in, and not having anything.