Quotes about philosophic
philosophical happy-life thinking
Black is the absence of all color. White is the presence of all colors. I suppose life must be one or the other. On the whole, though, I think I would prefer color to its absence. But then black does add depth and texture to color. Perhaps certain shades of gray are necessary to a complete palette. Even unrelieved black. Ah, a deep philosophical question. Is black necessary to life, even a happy life? Could we ever be happy if we did not at least occasionally experience misery?
philosophical four
True time is four-dimensional. Martin Heidegger
philosophical animal body
The human body is essentially something other than an animal organism.
philosophical
We do not say: Being is, time is, but rather: there is Being and there is time.
philosophical higher
The possible ranks higher than the actual.
philosophical transcendence
Transcendence constitutes selfhood.
philosophical shepherds lord
The human being is not the lord of beings, but the shepherd of Being.
philosophical thinking thought-provoking
The most thought-provoking thing in our thought-provoking time is that we are still not thinking.
philosophical air nuclear
We're cognizant, curious beings, capable of philosophical thought, nuclear physics, repeating Nerf weapons, global consciousness, Glade air fresheners, and sentient automobiles. But we're assholes first. Nick Offerman
philosophical matter way
No matter what everybody says, ultimately these things can harm us only by the way we react to them. Moliere
philosophical world alternatives
The only good reason to embrace a philosophical position is that you are convinced it is true or at least makes sense of the world better than the alternatives. Julian Baggini
philosophical thinking decision
...life is a gift bestowed without anyone asking for it; that the thinking person has a philosophical duty to examine both the nature of life and the conditions it comes with; and that if this person decides to renounce the gift no one asks for, it is the moral and human duty to act on the consequences of that decision. Julian Barnes
philosophical science would-be
The plain fact is that there are no conclusions. If we must state a conclusion, it would be that many of the former conclusions of the nineteenth-century science on philosophical questions are once again in the melting-pot. James Jeans
philosophical poetry mind
The philosophic mind inclines always to an elaborate life--the life of Goethe or of Leonardo da Vinci; but the life of the poet isintense--the life of Blake or of Dante--taking into its centre the life that surrounds it and flinging it abroad again amid planetary music. James Joyce
philosophical suffering littles
The happy and the suffering probably understand life equally well, but the sufferers may see a little more clearly how little it is that they understand. James Richardson
philosophical destiny grieving
There is no good in arguing with the inevitable. The only argument available with an east wind is to put on your overcoat. James Russell Lowell
philosophical paris looks
Look at the Paris Commune. That was the Dictatorship of the Proletariat. Friedrich Engels
philosophical civilization greed
From the first day to this, sheer greed was the driving spirit of civilization.
philosophical law criminals
Some laws of state aimed at curbing crime are even more criminal.
philosophical different philosopher
There is not a philosophical method, though there are indeed methods, like different therapies. Ludwig Wittgenstein
philosophical thinking disease
A main cause of philosophical disease-an unbalanced diet: one nourishes one's thinking with only one kind of example.
philosophical ladders world
My propositions serve as elucidations in the following way: anyone who understands me eventually recognizes them as nonsensical, when he has used them--as steps--to climb up beyond them. (He must, so to speak, throw away the ladder after he has climbed up it.) He must transcend these propositions, and then he will see the whole world aright.
philosophical giving logic
It is possible--indeed possible even according to the old conception of logic--to give in advance a description of all 'true' logical propositions. Hence there can never be surprises in logic.
philosophical reap remarks
There are remarks that sow and remarks that reap.
philosophical common-sense temptation
One can defend common sense against the attacks of philosophers only by solving their puzzles, i.e., by curing them of the temptation to attack common sense....
philosophical said
What can be shown, cannot be said.
philosophical independent world
The world is independent of my will.
philosophical contradiction tautology
Propositions show what they say: tautologies and contradictions show that they say nothing.
philosophical sleep science
Man has to awaken to wonder - and so perhaps do peoples. Science is a way of sending him to sleep again.
philosophical tree tragedy
You get tragedy where the tree, instead of bending, breaks.
philosophical air discussion
A new word is like a fresh seed sown on the ground of the discussion.
philosophical math reality
Logic takes care of itself; all we have to do is to look and see how it does it.
philosophical math mountain
With my full philosophical rucksack I can only climb slowly up the mountain of mathematics.