Quotes about philosophic
philosophical night people
Godshawk looked surprised, the way that people generally do when you ask them philosophical questions in shrubberies in the middle of the night. Philip Reeve
philosophical men squares
The Phenomenon of Man stands square in the tradition of Naturphilosophie, a philosophical indoor pastime of German origin which does not seem even by accident (though there is a great deal of it) to have contributed anything of permanent value to the storehouse of human thought. Peter Medawar
philosophical errors important
Al-Ghazali is the most important philosophical theologian of classical Islam, and Moderation in Belief is among his most important works. It sets out al-Ghazali's Ash?arite theology with unusual clarity and provides important background for such well-known works as his autobiographical Deliverance from Error and his attack on Avicenna in The Incoherence of the Philosophers. This first English-language translation, with notes that bring out the argumentation and background of the work, is thus very much to be welcomed. Peter Adamson
philosophical writing men
It has been said that to write is to live forever. The man who said that is dead. Tina Fey
philosophical years two
We can either have a twenty-first-century conversation about morality and the human well-being - a conversation in which we avail ourselves of all scientific insights and philosophical arguments that have accumulated in the last two thousand years of human discourse - or we can confine ourselves to a first-century conversation as it is preserved in the Bible. Sam Harris
philosophical giving society
If everybody is rewarded just for being alive, you get the same sort of effect as you do when you reward every student just for being enrolled. You destroy not only education, you destroy society by giving A's to everyone. This is a philosophical consideration that bothers me very much as I sit in the United States Senate and see the great budget allocations going through. S. I. Hayakawa
philosophical character writing
Like Flannery O'Connor, McCorkle's genius is to give us both philosophical speculation and a riveting narrative filled with unforgettable characters. Great writing, poignancy, humor, wisdom-all are in abundance here. Jill McCorkle is one of the South's greatest writers; she is also one of America's. Ron Rash
philosophical writing smoking
Good evening, Lord Corwin,' said the lean, cadaverous figure who rested against a storage rack, smoking his pipe, grinning around it. Good evening, Roger. How are things in the nether world?' A rat, a bat, a spider. Nothing much else astir. Peaceful.' You enjoy this duty?' He nodded. I am writing a philosophical romance shot through with elements of horror and morbidity. I work on those parts down here. Roger Zelazny
philosophical vistas toothache
Even the most heartening of philosophical vistas is no match for, say, a toothache, if it happens to be your own.
philosophical men he-man
The man who renounces himself, comes to himself. Ralph Waldo Emerson
philosophical men needs
A complete man should need no auxiliaries to his personal presence.
philosophical vocabulary giving
I'm very educated and can give you somewhat of a vocabulary, but I don't get to the philosophical side. Shaquille O'Neal
philosophical form lasting
Each thing is of like form from everlasting and comes round again in its cycle. Marcus Aurelius
philosophical ambition men
A man's worth is no greater than his ambitions.
philosophical men sake
Men exist for the sake of one another.
philosophical persons happens
There is nothing happens to any person but what was in his power to go through with.
philosophical inspiration being-alone
Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul.
philosophical men live-well
Where a man can live, he can also live well.
philosophical forever keep-moving-forward
The only wealth which you will keep forever is the wealth you have given away.
philosophical taken eternity
He who has seen present things has seen all, both everything which has taken place from all eternity and everything which will be for time without end; for all things are of one kin and of one form.
philosophical historical
Anger cannot be dishonest.
philosophical vivid-imagination understanding
Aptitude found in the understanding and is often inherited. Genius coming from reason and imagination, rarely.
philosophical loving-yourself self-acceptance
Be content to seem what you really are.
philosophical mindfulness
Confine yourself to the present.
philosophical men organization
Man cannot be enlightened through any organization, creed, dogma, priest or ritual, nor through any philosophical knowledge or psychological technique. He has to find it through understanding the contents of his own mind, through observation, not through intellectual analysis or introspective dissection. Radhanath Swami
philosophical
Whatever is received is received according to the nature of the recipient. Thomas Aquinas
philosophical thoughtful love-is
All the efforts of the human mind cannot exhaust the essence of a single fly.
philosophical spirit said
All that is true, by whomsoever it has been said has its origin in the Spirit.
philosophical evil catholic
Good can exist without evil, whereas evil cannot exist without good.
philosophical demand reason
Human salvation demands the divine disclosure of truths surpassing reason.
philosophical reading book
Beware of the person of one book.
philosophical hands catholic
To convert somebody go and take them by the hand and guide them.
philosophical thoughtful love-is
How can we live in harmony? First we need to know we are all madly in love with the same God.