Quotes about philosophic
philosophical endurance overcoming
Every calamity is to be overcome by endurance. Virgil
philosophical yield permit
Do not yield to misfortunes, but advance more boldly to meet them, as your fortune permits you.
philosophical helping unfortunate
Myself acquainted with misfortune, I learn to help the unfortunate.
philosophical writing rome
If there had been a censorship of the press in Rome we should have had today neither Horace nor Juvenal, nor the philosophical writings of Cicero. Voltaire
philosophical poverty comfort
The comfort of the rich depends upon an abundant supply of the poor.
philosophical reflection psychology
Philosophical reflection could not leave the relation of mind and spirit in the obscurity which had satisfied the needs of the naive consciousness. Wilhelm Wundt
philosophical eulogy doe
No eulogy is due to him who simply does his duty and nothing more. Saint Augustine
philosophical live-well wells
To seek the highest good is to live well.
philosophical believe soul
If we did not have rational souls, we would not be able to believe.
philosophical heart quiet
Thou hast created us for Thyself, and our heart is not quiet until it rests in Thee.
philosophical reason weak
We are too weak to discover the truth by reason alone
philosophical adversity son
God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering.
philosophical wilting grants
Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.
philosophical evil firsts
The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works.
philosophical men perfection
This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfections.
philosophical sins-not forsaken
To abstain from sin when one can no longer sin is to be forsaken by sin, not to forsake it.
philosophical punishment justice
Punishment is justice for the unjust.
philosophical character angel
We cannot pass our guardian angel's bounds, resigned or sullen, he will hear our sighs.
philosophical evil judging
God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist.
philosophical men rabbits
The fish trap exists because of the fish. Once you've gotten the fish you can forget the trap. The rabbit snare exists because of the rabbit. Once you've gotten the rabbit, you can forget the snare. Words exist because of meaning. Once you've gotten the meaning, you can forget the words. Where can I find a man who has forgotten words so I can talk with him? Zhuangzi
philosophical reality mind
The sole "property" of matter with whose recognition philosophical materialism is bound up is the property of being an objective reality, of existing outside the mind. Vladimir Lenin
philosophical autumn wind
In a world of universal poverty The philosophers alone will be fat Against the autumn winds In an autumn that will be perpetual. Wallace Stevens
philosophical clouds speech
Funest philosophers and ponderers, Their evocations are the speech of clouds.
philosophical character men
The myriad-minded man, our, and all men's, Shakespeare, has in this piece presented us with a legitimate farce in exactest consonance with the philosophical principles and character of farce, as distinguished from comedy and from entertainments. A proper farce is mainly distinguished from comedy by the licence allowed, and even required, in the fable, in order to produce strange and laughable situations. The story need not be probable, it is enough that it is possible. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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 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.