Quotes about philosophic
philosophical reality thinking
Reality is contradictory. And it's paradoxical. If there's any one word -- if you had to pick one word to describe the nature of the universe -- I think that word would be paradox. That's true at the subatomic level, right through sociological, psychological, philosophical levels on up to cosmic levels. Tom Robbins
philosophical islamic doubt
The philosophical connection between the Islamic world and the West is much closer than I thought. Doubt did not begin with Descartes. We have this construction today that the West and Islam are entirely separate worlds. This is wrong. Tariq Ramadan
philosophical order world
For what are myths if not the imposing of order on phenomena that do not possess order in themselves? And all myths, however they differ from philosophical systems and scientific theories, share this with them, that they negate the principle of randomness in the world. Stanislaw Lem
philosophical leafs stuck
We are like snails, each stuck to his own leaf.
philosophical thinking political
In terms of political things, I think it's important to be more direct in terms of political statements. I think in terms of philosophical and things that you plant things and see them grow lyrically or musically, it's okay to be subtle. Serj Tankian
philosophical angel mind
Maybe philosophical problems are hard not because they are divine or irreducible or meaningless or workaday science, but because the mind of Homo sapiens lacks the cognitive equipment to solve them. We are organisms, not angels... Our minds evolved... to solve problems, [not]... to answer any question we are capable of asking. Steven Pinker
philosophical pages duty
It is an author's primary duty to entertain. Sling out all the philosophical terms, but keep the reader turning the page. Susan Howatch
philosophical objectivity data
How then did we come to the "standard model"? And how has it supplanted other theories, like the steady state model? It is a tribute to the essential objectivity of modern astrophysics that this consensus has been brought about, not by shifts in philosophical preference or by the influence of astrophysical mandarins, but by the pressure of empirical data. Steven Weinberg
philosophical feel-better apples
Grover didn't say anything for awhile. Then, when I thought he was going to give me some deep philosophical comment to make me feel better, he said, "Can I have your apple? Rick Riordan
philosophical fields inquiry
We have to reconcile ourselves with philosophical questions in every field. Every field should be open to inquiry and knowledge.
philosophical past action
And right action is freedom From past and future also. T. S. Eliot
philosophical moral assuming
It is always incorrect to assume you can know what someone's moral convictions are based on their philosophical theories. Stanley Fish
philosophical wish maps
You're free to speculate as you wish about the philosophical and allegorical meaning of the film—and such speculation is one indication that it has succeeded in gripping the audience at a deep level—but I don't want to spell out a verbal road map for 2001 that every viewer will feel obligated to pursue or else fear he's missed the point. Stanley Kubrick
philosophical risk height
Who is also aware of the tremendous risk involved in faith - when he nevertheless makes the leap of faith - this [is] subjectivity ... at its height. Soren Kierkegaard
philosophical greek morality
If the ethical - that is, social morality- is the highest ... then no categories are needed other than the Greek philosophical categories.
philosophical weapons rage
Their rage supplies them with weapons. Virgil
philosophical mind age
Age steals away all things, even the mind.
philosophical winning victory
Go forth a conqueror and win great victories.
philosophical endurance may
Come what may, all bad fortune is to be conquered by endurance.
philosophical eye lovers
Who can blind lover's eyes?
philosophical flying return
Time is flying never to return.
philosophical
We can't all do everything.
philosophical mystery
Veiling truth in mystery.
philosophical arms fury
Fury itself supplies arms.
philosophical youth proposal
Let not our proposal be disregarded on the score of our youth.
philosophical medicine disease
The medicine increases the disease.
philosophical heart gold
O accursed hunger of gold, to what dost thou not compel human hearts!
philosophical greek trojan-horse
I fear the Greeks, even when they bring gifts.
philosophical scorn ifs
If one swain scorns you, you will soon find another.
philosophical parallels
None but himself can be his parallel.
philosophical port sail
He enters the port with a full sail.
philosophical
I shudder when relating it.
philosophical enemy strategy
Who asks whether the enemy was defeated by strategy or valor?