Quotes about phil
philosophical angel mind
Maybe philosophical problems are hard not because they are divine or irreducible or meaningless or workaday science, but because the mind of Homo sapiens lacks the cognitive equipment to solve them. We are organisms, not angels... Our minds evolved... to solve problems, [not]... to answer any question we are capable of asking. Steven Pinker
philosophical pages duty
It is an author's primary duty to entertain. Sling out all the philosophical terms, but keep the reader turning the page. Susan Howatch
philosopher politician categories
I'm not a minister, I'm not a philosopher, I'm not a politician, I'm in another category. Sun Ra
philosophy hardship easy
Anyone can keep going in an easy situation, but do you have a philosophy which can enable you to meet the worst hardship? Sun Myung Moon
philosophy political experts
For the individual, as I can testify, a brief grounding in semantics, besides making philosophy unreadable, makes unreadable most political speeches, classical economic theory, after-dinner oratory, diplomatic notes, newspaper editorials, treatises on pedagogics and education, expert financial comment, dissertations on money and credit, accounts of debates, and Great Thoughts from Great Thinkers in general. You would be surprised at the amount of time this saves. Stuart Chase
philosophy happens
That's how it happens, livin life by the drop. Stevie Ray Vaughan
philosophical objectivity data
How then did we come to the "standard model"? And how has it supplanted other theories, like the steady state model? It is a tribute to the essential objectivity of modern astrophysics that this consensus has been brought about, not by shifts in philosophical preference or by the influence of astrophysical mandarins, but by the pressure of empirical data. Steven Weinberg
philosophy people degrees
Yes, obviously, there's this degree of wanting people to accept other people faiths and philosophies. Ridley Scott
philosophy class discovery
Ralph also took some classes in philosophy and literature and felt himself on the brink of some kind of huge discovery about himself. But it never came. Raymond Carver
philosophy book reading
I had been reading this book about Zen Koan philosophy, and it was talking about the right here and the right now, and how important it is, and I was really trying to get there in my life. Sammy Hagar
philosophical fields inquiry
We have to reconcile ourselves with philosophical questions in every field. Every field should be open to inquiry and knowledge. Tariq Ramadan
philosophy men understanding
Unfortunately there are some trends that are changing this but you don't have for example as strict and narrow understanding of the relationship between men and women. And then there is the philosophy we have to extract in the relationship between text and culture. Tariq Ramadan
philosophy thinking way
We must re-center philosophy within our frame of reference which I think is the way to deal with it. Tariq Ramadan
philosophy discipline fasting
The philosophy of fasting calls upon us to know ourselves, to master ourselves, and to discipline ourselves the better to free ourselves. To fast is to identify our dependencies, and free ourselves from them. Tariq Ramadan
philosophy purple tree
Philosophy: a purple bullfinch in a lilac tree. T. S. Eliot
philosophy effort understanding
A good half of the effort of understanding what the Indian philosophers were after - and their subtleties make most of the great European philosophers look like schoolboys. T. S. Eliot
philosophical past action
And right action is freedom From past and future also. T. S. Eliot
philosophy moral ethics
Any philosophy that can be put in a nutshell belongs there. Sydney J. Harris
philosophy power-politics doctrine
Any creed whose basic doctrines do not include respect for the creeds of others, is simply power politics masquerading as philosophy. Sydney J. Harris
philosophy people degrees
I'm not the one going for a biology degree. I'm just a philosophy major who eats people. Scott Westerfeld
philosophy design innovation
When it comes to innovation, business has much to learn from design. The philosophy in design shops is, 'try it, prototype it, and improve it'. Roger Martin
philosophy past self
There is a constant in the average American imagination and taste, for which the past must be preserved and celebrated in full-scale authentic copy; a philosophy of immortality as duplication. It dominates the relation with the self, with the past, not infrequently with the present, always with History and, even, with the European tradition. Umberto Eco
philosophy ideas should
Only an unhinged movie survives as a disconnected series of images, of peaks, of visual icebergs. It should display not one central idea but many. It should not reveal a coherent philosophy of composition. It must live on, and because of, its glorious ricketiness. Umberto Eco
philosophy matter remember
Please tell me you will remember, no matter how much I do wrong that I had the best of intentions all along. Travis Tritt
philosophy believe opportunity
We believe that when the right talent meets the right opportunity in a company with the right philosophy, amazing transformation can happen. Reid Hoffman
philosophical feel-better apples
Grover didn't say anything for awhile. Then, when I thought he was going to give me some deep philosophical comment to make me feel better, he said, "Can I have your apple? Rick Riordan
philosophy editors looks
I've imparted that philosophy to the writers, but some of them look stuff up while some don't. Same with the editors, directors and actors. To each their own. Vince Gilligan
philosophical destiny poet
This seems to me a philosophical question, and therefore irrelevant, question. A poet's destiny is to love. Robert Graves
philosophy drawing rabbits
He found a formula for drawing comic rabbits: This formula for drawing comic rabbits paid. Till in the end he could not change the tragic habits This formula for drawing comic rabbits made. Robert Graves
philosophy book men
It is like most other ancient books - a mingling of falsehood and truth, of philosophy and folly - all written by men, and most of the men only partially civilized. Some of its laws are good - some infinitely barbarous. None of the miracles related were performed. . . . Take out the absurdities, the miracles, all that pertains to the supernatural - all the cruel and barbaric laws - and to the remainder I have no objection. Neither would I have for it any great admiration. Robert Green Ingersoll
philosophy passion men
When passions and appetites are stronger than the intellect, men are savages; when the intellect governs the passions, when the passions are servants, men are civilized. The people need education - facts - philosophy. Robert Green Ingersoll
philosophy eye men
The old man has been long at the fair. He is acquainted with the jugglers at the booths. His curiosity has been satisfied. He no longer cares for the exceptional, the monstrous, the marvelous and deformed. He looks through and beyond the gilding, the glitter and gloss, not only of things, but of conduct, of manners, theories, religions and philosophies. He sees clearer. The light no longer shines in his eyes. Robert Green Ingersoll
philosophy dark clouds
All I have to say is, Love one another - that is the height of all philosophy. It is beyond all religions. It is the secret of joy - the fountain of Perpetual Youth - the only rainbow on life's dark cloud. Robert Green Ingersoll