Quotes about philosophic
philosophical animal discovery
I abhor vivisection with my whole soul. All the scientific discoveries stained with innocent blood I count as of no consequence. Mahatma Gandhi
philosophical men animal
It is very significant that some of the most thoughtful and cultured men are partisans of a pure vegetable diet
philosophical government groups
Stripped of ethical rationalizations and philosophical pretensions, a crime is anything that a group in power chooses to prohibit. Freda Adler
philosophical emotional essence
True literature is more than just a story someone has told. It must provide the reader with the essence of the world on a moral, philosophical and emotional level. Orhan Pamuk
philosophical air water
The best thing about the sciences is their philosophical ingredient, like life for an organic body. If one dephilosophizes the sciences, what remains left? Earth , air , and [[water. Novalis
philosophical love-is rivals
Losing love is so rich a philosophical ordeal that it makes a hairdresser into a rival of Socrates. Emile M. Cioran
philosophical writing men
When a man is proud because he can understand and explain the writings of Chrysippus, say to yourself, 'if Chrysippus had not written obscurely, this man would have had nothing to be proud of.' Epictetus
philosophical laughing
Do not laugh much or often or unrestrainedly.
philosophical reality justice
Justice... is a kind of compact not to harm or be harmed. Epicurus
philosophical men justice
There is no such thing as justice in the abstract; it is merely a compact between men.
philosophical crowds mass
The time when most of you should withdraw into yourself is when you are forced to be in a crowd.
philosophical loss envy
Riches do not exhilarate us so much with their possession as they torment us with their loss.
philosophical hard-times skills
Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempest.
philosophical passion thee
Control thy passions lest they take vengence on thee.
philosophical religion treasure
Unless we place our religion and our treasure in the same thing, religion will always be sacrificed.
philosophical evil religion
There is nothing good or evil save in the will.
philosophical eyeglasses drunk
He is a drunkard who takes more than three glasses though he be not drunk.
philosophical practice discipline
Practice yourself, for heaven's sake in little things, and then proceed to greater.
philosophical libertarian moderation
If one oversteps the bounds of moderation, the greatest pleasures cease to please.
philosophical difficulty shows
Difficulties are things that show a person what they are.
philosophical anchors childhood
We should not moor a ship with one anchor, or our life with one hope.
philosophical writing wish
If you wish to be a writer, write.
philosophical believe desire
If you desire to be good, begin by believing that you are wicked.
philosophical silence quiet
Keep silence for the most part, and speak only when you must, and then briefly.
philosophical thinking people
People habituate themselves to let things pass through their minds, as one may speak, rather than to think of them. Thus by use they become satisfied merely with seeing what is said, without going any further. Review and attention, and even forming a judgment, becomes fatigue; and to lay anything before them that requires it, is putting them quite out of their way. Joseph Butler
philosophical needs cards
Like any joker, he was watching For the card that is so high and wild He'll never need to deal another He was just some Joseph looking for a manger Leonard Cohen
philosophical woods stones
God is nearer to me than I am to myself; He is just as near to wood and stone, but they do not know it.
philosophical soul subtraction
God is not found in the soul by adding anything but by a process of subtraction.
philosophical yesterday lasts
The now wherein God made the world is as near this time as the now I am speaking in this moment, and the last day is as near this now as was yesterday.
philosophical worry people
People should not worry so much about what they do but rather about what they are.
philosophical thinking today
Think I'll flip a coin, I'm a winner either way Mmmmmm, I feel lucky today Mary Chapin Carpenter
philosophical men humanity
In philosophical anthropology, ... where the subject is man in his wholeness, the investigator cannot content himself, as in anthropology as an individual science, with considering man as another part of nature and with ignoring the fact that he, the investigator, is himself a man and experiences this humanity in his inner experience in a way that he simply cannot experience any part of nature. Martin Buber
philosophical men subjectivity
The philosophical anthropologist ... can know the wholeness of the person and through it the wholeness of man only when he does not leave his subjectivity out and does not remain an untouched observer.