Quotes about phil
philosophy fighting people
Fight Club is a thrill ride masquerading as philosophy - the kind of ride where some people puke and others can't wait to get on again. Roger Ebert
philosophy book thinking
An honest bookstore would post the following sign above its 'self-help' section: 'For true self-help, please visit our philosophy, literature, history and science sections, find yourself a good book, read it, and think about it.
philosophical delight care
Jacques Tati is the great philosophical tinkerer of comedy, taking meticulous care to arrange his films so that they unfold in a series of revelations and effortless delights.
philosophy thieves life-is
Life is so brief and time is a thief when you're undecided. Rod Stewart
philosophy republic influence
The myth that the founding of American Republic was based on the philosophy of John Locke could only have been maintained, because the history of Leibniz's influence was suppressed. Robert Trout
philosophy battle revolution
The American Revolution was, in fact, a battle against the philosophy of Locke and the English utilitarians.
philosophy republic example
The myth that John Locke was the philosopher behind the American Republic, is easily refuted by examining how Locke's philosophy steered Thomas Jefferson, for example.
philosophy ethical interest
Ethical and questions of philosophy interest me a great deal. Robert Sheckley
philosophy world today
All the big problems of the world today are routed in the philosophy of separateness and dualism. Satish Kumar
philosophy mind west
Before the scientific rationalism took hold of our minds and before we became succumbed to a materialistic worldview, the Western philosophy was holistic and relational, and even now there are many scientists in the West seeing things totally interconnected.
philosophy way might
I've got to live my life the way I feel is right for me. Might not be right for you, but it's right for me. Sarah McLachlan
philosophical lenses way
Faith, for me, isn't an argument, a catechism, a philosophical “proof.” It is instead a lens, a way of experiencing life, and a willingness to act. Sarah Miles
philosophy government engineering
Today's water institutions-the policies and laws, government agencies and planning and engineering practices that shape patterns of water use-are steeped in a supply-side management philosophy no longer appropriate to solving today's water problems. Sandra Postel
philosophy ignorance light
The annals of the French Revolution prove that the knowledge of the few cannot counteract the ignorance of the many.... The light of philosophy, when it is confined to a small minority, points out the possessors as the victims rather than the illuminators of the multitude. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
philosophy philosopher poet
The philosopher proves that the philosopher exists. The poet merely enjoys existence. Wallace Stevens
philosophy science philosopher
Perhaps it is of more value to infuriate philosophers than to go along with them.
philosophy sight medicine
To lose sensibility, to see what one sees, As if sight had not its own miraculous thrift, To hear only what one hears, one meaning alone, As if the paradise of meaning ceased To be paradise, it is this to be destitute.
philosophical weapons rage
Their rage supplies them with weapons. Virgil
philosophical mind age
Age steals away all things, even the mind.
philosophical winning victory
Go forth a conqueror and win great victories.
philosophical endurance may
Come what may, all bad fortune is to be conquered by endurance.
philosophical eye lovers
Who can blind lover's eyes?
philosophical flying return
Time is flying never to return.
philosophical
We can't all do everything.
philosophical mystery
Veiling truth in mystery.
philosophical arms fury
Fury itself supplies arms.
philosophical youth proposal
Let not our proposal be disregarded on the score of our youth.
philosophical medicine disease
The medicine increases the disease.
philosophical heart gold
O accursed hunger of gold, to what dost thou not compel human hearts!
philosophical greek trojan-horse
I fear the Greeks, even when they bring gifts.
philosophical scorn ifs
If one swain scorns you, you will soon find another.
philosophical parallels
None but himself can be his parallel.
philosophical port sail
He enters the port with a full sail.