Quotes about philosophic
philosophical player piano
I'm a natural piano player. So all the practicing I do at this point is in my head. If I don't play for a year, my chops aren't going to get any worse. I've spent my time playing scales, and I don't necessarily want to play any faster than I play. So everything I do at this point is more philosophical. Harry Connick, Jr.
philosophical gay rainbow
Gay is a subculture, a slur, a set of gestures, a slang, a look, a posture, a parade, a rainbow flag, a film genre, a taste in music, a hairstyle, a marketing demographic, a bumper sticker, a political agenda and philosophical viewpoint. Gay is a pre-packaged, superficial persona-a lifestyle. It's a sexual identity that has almost nothing to do with sexuality. Jack Donovan
philosophical reading book
Reading is going toward something that is about to be, and no one yet knows what it will be. Italo Calvino
philosophical murder abstract
I say a murder is abstract. You pull the trigger and after that you do not understand anything that happens. Jean-Paul Sartre
philosophical essence existence
Existence precedes and rules essence.
philosophical men resources
Who can exhaust a man? Who knows a man's resources?
philosophical sixteen saint
One cannot become a saint when one works sixteen hours a day.
philosophical men
Man is condemned to be free
philosophical umpires issues
What do I care about Jupiter? Justice is a human issue, and I do not need a god to teach it to me.
philosophical taken sunset
There is only one day left, always starting over: it is given to us at dawn and taken away from us at dusk.
philosophical meaning-of-life
Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is.
philosophical weakness reason
Everything that exists is born for no reason, carries on living through weakness, and dies by accident
philosophical doe cry
That God does not exist, I cannot deny, That my whole being cries out for God I cannot forget.
philosophical soul needs
I have no need for good souls: an accomplice is what I wanted.
philosophical book i-have-learned
All that I know about my life, it seems, I have learned in books.
philosophical literature trouble
If literature isn't everything, it's not worth a single hour of someone's trouble.
philosophical judging evil
Evil is the product of the ability of humans to make abstract that which is concrete.
philosophical science technology
Politics is a science. You can demonstrate that you are right and that others are wrong.
philosophical men choices
Man is fully responsible for his nature and his choices.
philosophical fool deals
If you make a deal with a fool, don't be surprised when they act foolishly. Jeffrey Archer
philosophical cutting ice
Our tools are extensions of our purposes, and so we find it natural to make metaphorical attributions of intentionality to them; but I take it no philosophical ice is cut by such examples John Searle
philosophical interesting trials
For me, Stalinism was even a greater philosophical problem than Nazism. Under Nazism, if you were a Jew, you were simply killed, no questions asked, you had nothing to prove. Under Stalinism, of course, most [victims] were on trial for false accusations; most of them were not traitors. There is one interesting feature: that they were tortured or through some kind of blackmail forced to confess to being traitors. Slavoj Zizek
philosophical heaven suffering
If you suffer it is because of you, if you feel blissful it is because of you. Nobody else is responsible - only you and you alone. You are your hell and your heaven too. Rajneesh
philosophical love-is action
My love is unconditional. Your action is irrelevant.
philosophical believe america
If we look at it more from a philosophical standpoint, these foundations of atheism and secular humanism believe that you are your own God. That leads us to something that unfortunately has crept into many churches across America, and it is what I call the Social Gospel. The social gospel, that could creep into something that is called Liberation Theology, which is a mixture of leftist, pseudo-Christianity with Marxism. Ted Cruz
philosophical humor writing
Some major writers have a huge impact, like Ayn Rand, who to my mind is a lousy fiction writer because her writing has no compassion and virtually no humor. She has a philosophical and economical message that she is passing off as fiction, but it really isn't fiction at all. Theodore Sturgeon
philosophical trying curtains
There's something in life that's a curtain, and I keep trying to raise it. Maxine Hong Kingston
philosophical want-something luxury
A pleasant natural environment is a good - a luxury good, philosophical good, a moral goody-good, a good time for all. Whatever, we want it. If we want something, we should pay for it, with our labor or our cash. We shouldn't beg it, steal it, sit around wishing for it, or euchre the government into taking it by force. P. J. O'Rourke
philosophical men realizing
That man is wisest who, like Socrates, realizes that his wisdom is worthless Plato
philosophical suffering littles
To suffer the penalty of too much haste, which is too little speed.
philosophical self want
A state arises,as I conceive,out of the needs of mankind;no one is self-sufficing,but all of us have many wants
philosophical good-friend caring
My good friend, you are a citizen of Athens, a city which is very great and very famous for its wisdom and power - are you not ashamed of caring so much for the making of money and for fame and prestige, when you neither think nor care about wisdom and truth and the improvement of your soul?
philosophical reviews thrice
Twice and thrice over, as they say, good is it to repeat and review what is good.