Quotes about philosophic
philosophical animal race
Oh, a very useful philosophical animal, your average tortoise. Outrunning metaphorical arrows, beating hares in races... very handy. Terry Pratchett
philosophical writing color
Russell's prose has been compared by T.S. Eliot to that of David Hume's. I would rank it higher, for it had more color, juice, and humor. But to be lucid, exciting and profound in the main body of one's work is a combination of virtues given to few philosophers. Bertrand Russell has achieved immortality by his philosophical writings. Sidney Hook
philosophical metaphor universe
The entire universe is nothing but a great metaphor. Simone Weil
philosophical truth-is break
Truth is a clumsy servant that breaks the dishes while washing them. Karl Kraus
philosophical philosophical-questions answers
Only the philosophical question is perennial, not the answers. Paul Tillich
philosophical views afterlife
Secular humanism does not have the essential attributes of a religion: belief in a deity, the wish for some sort of afterlife, sacred dogma or texts, or an absolutist moral creed. Instead, it expresses a philosophical and ethical point of view, and it draws upon the scientific method in formulationg its naturalistic view of the nature. Paul Kurtz
philosophical trying way
...while there is such a thing as correctness in ethics, in interpretation, in mathematics, the way to understand that is not by trying to model it on the ways in which we get things right in physics.... Hilary Putnam
philosophical reality names
Life has the name of life, but in reality it is death. Heraclitus
philosophical thought-provoking together
If one has not read the newspapers for some months and then reads them all together, one sees, as one never saw before, how much time is wasted with this kind of literature. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
philosophical firsts doe
The work with which we embark on this first volume of a series of theological studies is a work with which the philosophical person does not begin, but rather concludes. Hans Urs von Balthasar
philosophical romance stories
Christianity met the mythological search for romance by being a story and the philosophical search for truth by being a true story. Gilbert K. Chesterton
philosophical thinking doubt
Blasphemy is an artistic effect, because blasphemy depends upon a philosophical conviction. Blasphemy depends upon belief and is fading with it. If any one doubts this, let him sit down seriously and try to think blasphemous thoughts about Thor.
philosophical learning men
Mere poets are sottish as mere drunkards are, who live in a continual mist, without seeing or judging anything clearly. A man should be learned in several sciences, and should have a reasonable, philosophical and in some measure a mathematical head, to be a complete and excellent poet. John Dryden
philosophical punishment evil
Good and evil, reward and punishment, are the only motives to a rational creature John Locke
philosophical perspective evil
The dread of evil is a much more forcible principle of human actions than the prospect of good.
philosophical long world
Things of this world are in so constant a flux, that nothing remains long in the same state.
philosophical ideas mind
The mind is furnished with ideas by experience alone
philosophical justice injustice
Where there is no property there is no injustice.
philosophical support virtue
Fortitude is the guard and support of the other virtues.
philosophical knowledge science
No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience.
philosophical fruit-of-labor wealth
All wealth is the product of labor.
philosophical government ends
Government has no other end, but the preservation of property.
philosophical character discipline
The discipline of desire is the background of character.
philosophical parenting bitterness
Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain.
philosophical giving silence
I shall assume that your silence gives consent. Plato
philosophical doe tao
Wisest is he who knows what he does not know.
philosophical process recollection
We do not learn; and what we call learning is only a process of recollection.
philosophical years billions
It takes billions of years to create a human being. And it takes only a few seconds to die. Jostein Gaarder
philosophical giving use
Let me put it more precisely: The ability to give birth is a natural characteristic. In the same way, everybody can grasp philosophical truths if they just use their innate reason.
philosophical intellectual preparation
Hamlet and Victor Frankenstein are each obsessed with death. Hamlet's whole story is a philosophical preparation for death; Victor's is an intellectual refusal to accept it. Kenneth Branagh
philosophical thinking democracy
So I think one can say on empirical grounds - not because of some philosophical principle - that you can't have democracy unless you have a market economy. Peter L. Berger
philosophical church way
I was unwilling to - without getting too philosophical about it - I was unwilling to structure my spirituality in the way that the church wanted me to structure it. Peter Jurasik
philosophical sides biology
My interest in biology was pretty much always on the philosophical side. Richard Dawkins