Quotes about philosophic
philosophical mathematics pleasure
I also ask you my friends not to condemn me entirely to the mill of mathematical calculations, and allow me time for philosophical speculations, my only pleasures. Johannes Kepler
philosophical artist best-job
Part of what made the Macintosh great was that the people working on it were musicians and poets and artists and zoologists and historians who also happened to be the best computer scientists in the world. Steve Jobs
philosophical responsibility reality
Becoming a vegetarian is not merely a symbolic gesture. Nor is it an attempt to isolate oneself from the ugly realities of the world, to keep oneself pure and so without responsibility for the cruelty and carnage all around. Becoming a vegetarian is a highly practical and effective step one can take toward ending both the killing of nonhuman animals and the infliction of suffering on them. Peter Singer
philosophical firsts virtue
I have many times been praised for my lack of animosity towards the Germans. It's not a philosophical virtue. It's a habit of having my second reactions before the first. Primo Levi
philosophical who-we-are
We all can be only who we are, no more, no less. Terry Goodkind
philosophical mean reality
Science fiction is very well suited to asking philosophical questions; questions about the nature of reality, what it means to be human, how do we know the things that we think we know. Ted Chiang
philosophical reality trying
When you're young you try to be methodical and philosophical, but reality keeps breaking in. Randall Jarrell
philosophical important you-choose
Having power is not nearly as important as what you choose to do with it. Roald Dahl
philosophical men words-of-wisdom
Philosophical discussions habitually make men happy and joyful not frowning and sad. Michel de Montaigne
philosophical school disputes
You know how much I am inclined to explain all disputes among philosophical schools as merely verbal disputes or at least to derive them originally from verbal disputes Moses Mendelssohn
philosophical lasts
Nothing lasts and yet nothing passes either, and nothing passes just because nothing lasts. Philip Roth
philosophical numbers important
The ends of scientific classification are best answered, when the objects are formed into groups respecting which a greater number of general propositions can be made, and those propositions more important, than could be made respecting any other groups into which the same things could be distributed. ... A classification thus formed is properly scientific or philosophical, and is commonly called a Natural, in contradistinction to a Technical or Artificial, classification or arrangement. John Stuart Mill
philosophical perfection done
To do as one would be done by, and to love one's neighbour as oneself, constitute the ideal perfection of utilitarian morality
philosophical character science
The doctrine called Philosophical Necessity is simply this: that, given the motives which are present to an individual's mind, and given likewise the character and disposition of the individual, the manner in which he will act might be unerringly inferred: that if we knew the person thoroughly, and knew all the inducements which are acting upon him, we could foretell his conduct with as much certainty as we can predict any physical event.
philosophical paradise lost
The true paradises are the paradises that we have lost. Marcel Proust
philosophical passion men
A man governs himself by the dictates of virtue and good sense, who acts without zeal or passion in points that are of no consequence; but when the whole community is shaken, and the safety of the public endangered, the appearance of a philosophical or an affected indolence must arise either from stupidity or perfidiousness. Joseph Addison
philosophical men landscape
The good is, like nature, an immense landscape in which man advances through centuries of exploration. Jose Ortega y Gasset
philosophical reading book
If a spectator with a philosophical mind, somebody accustomed to reading books, gets the same kind of information in a movie, he might not fully understand it. Manuel Puig
philosophical looks temporal-things
We look not at the things which are what you would call seen, but at the things which are not seen. For the things which are seen are temporal. But the things that are not seen are eternal. Madeleine L'Engle
philosophical interesting people
I'm not a sociologist, and the novel has often concerned itself with sociology. It's one of the generating forces that's made fiction interesting to people. But that's not my concern. I'm interested in psychology. And also certain philosophical questions about the world. Jonathan Lethem
philosophical broken tiny
When our tools are broken, we feel broken. And when somebody fixes one, we feel a tiny bit more whole. Jonathan Ive
philosophical interesting priorities
That's an interesting thing about an object. One object speaks volumes about the company that produced it and its values and priorities.
philosophical thinking trying
So much of what we try to do is get to a point where the solution seems inevitable: you know, you think "of course it's that way, why would it be any other way?" It looks so obvious, but that sense of inevitability in the solution is really hard to achieve.
philosophical mean design
Design is a word that's come to mean so much that it's also a word that has come to mean nothing.
philosophical perception stuff
I figured out some basic stuff: that form and colour defines your perception of the nature of an object, whether or not it is intended to.
philosophical apples design
Apple's Jony Ive describes his "fanatical" approach to design in new interview
philosophical people design
Very often design is the most immediate way of defining what products become in people's minds.
philosophical goal simplicity
Our goal is to try to bring a calm and simplicity to what are incredibly complex problems so that you're not aware really of the solution.
philosophical simple simplicity
Simplicity is not the absence of clutter, that's a consequence of simplicity. Simplicity is somehow essentially describing the purpose and place of an object and product. The absence of clutter is just a clutter-free product. That's not simple.
philosophical essence order
You have to deeply understand the essence of a product in order to be able to get rid of the parts that are not essential.
philosophical difficult-and-easy growing
It's very easy to be different, but very difficult to be better.
philosophical thinking momentum
The stream of thinking has enormous momentum that can easily drag you along with it. Every thought pretends that it matters so much. Eckhart Tolle
philosophical home mind
When your consciousness is directed outward, mind and world arise. When it is directed inward, it realises its own Source and returns home into the Unmanifested.