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philosophical
'Tis better to be vile than vile esteemed William Shakespeare
philosophical character ideas
Science asks no questions about the ontological pedigree or a priori character of a theory, but is content to judge it by its performance; and it is thus that a knowledge of nature, having all the certainty which the senses are competent to inspire, has been attained--a knowledge which maintains a strict neutrality toward all philosophical systems and concerns itself not with the genesis or a priori grounds of ideas.
philosophical youth young
it is harder to be philosophical when you are young. Eleanor Roosevelt
philosophical historical serious
For this reason poetry is something more philosophical and more worthy of serious attention than history. Aristotle
philosophical men political
A man who examines each subject from a philosophical standpoint cannot neglect them: he has to omit nothing, and state the truth about each topic.
philosophical order inquiring
for we are inquiring not in order to know what virtue is, but in order to become good, since otherwise our inquiry would have been of no use
philosophical highest
Happiness is the highest good
philosophical mean pleasure
Temperance is a mean with regard to pleasures.
philosophical men uprising
Those who excel in virtue have the best right of all to rebel, but then they are of all men the least inclined to do so.
philosophical humor secret-love
The secret to humor is surprise.
philosophical ignorance knowledge
For it is owing to their wonder that men both now begin and at first began to philosophize.... And a man who is puzzled and wonders thinks himself ignorant ...; therefore since they philosophized in order to escape from ignorance, evidently they were pursuing science in order to know, and not for any utilitarian end.
philosophical taken eye
No notice is taken of a little evil, but when it increases it strikes the eye.
philosophical age ornaments
Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age.
philosophical possibility mathematical
Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities.
philosophical constitution states
A constitution is the arrangement of magistracies in a state.
philosophical men repentance
Bad men are full of repentance.
philosophical class perfect
The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes.
philosophical mean character
Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion.
philosophical passion law
The law is reason, free from passion.
philosophical insanity soul
No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness.
philosophical law written
Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered.
philosophical history poetry
Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.
philosophical doe vain
Nature does nothing in vain.
philosophical cities city-life
A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.
philosophical soul-and-body figures
We must no more ask whether the soul and body are one than ask whether the wax and the figure impressed on it are one.
philosophical tyrants people
Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms.
philosophical equality egalitarianism
The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
philosophical historical society
Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms.
philosophical race class
It is not races but individuals that are noble and courageous or ignoble and craven or considerate or persistent or philosophical or reasonable. The race gets credit when the percentage of noble individuals is high. Edwin Way Teale
philosophical tea conversation
Fine. Since the tea is not forthcoming, let's have a philosophical conversation. Anton Chekhov
philosophical climate doe
It is commonly said that if rational argument is so seldom the cause of conviction, philosophical apologists must largely be wasting their shot. The premise is true, but the conclusion does not follow. For though argument does not create conviction, the lack of it destroys belief. What seems to be proved may not be embraced; but what no one shows the ability to defend is quickly abandoned. Rational argument does not create belief, but it maintains a climate in which belief may flourish. Austin Farrer
philosophical animal views
We have really, that I know of, no philosophical basis for high and low. Moreover, the vegetable kingdom does not culminate, as the animal kingdom does. It is not a kingdom, but a common-wealth; a democracy, and therefore puzzling and unaccountable from the former point of view. Asa Gray
philosophical eye doe
You swore you'd never compromise With the mystery tramp, but now you realise He's not selling any alibis As you stare into the vacuum of his eyes And say, do you want to make a deal How does it feel Bob Dylan