Quotes about philosophic
philosophical discovery topics
THERE is no method of reasoning more common, and yet none more blameable, than, in philosophical disputes, to endeavour the refutation of any hypothesis, by a pretence of its dangerous consequences to religion and morality. When any opinion leads to absurdities, it is certainly false; but it is not certain that an opinion is false, because it is of dangerous consequence. Such topics, therefore, ought entirely to be forborne; as serving nothing to the discovery of truth, but only to make the person of an antagonist odious. David Hume
philosophical men human-nature
Human Nature is the only science of man; and yet has been hitherto the most neglected.
philosophical men interest
Men often act knowingly against their interest.
philosophical numbers competition
And what is the greatest number? Number one.
philosophical world labor
Everything in the world is purchased by labor.
philosophical character results
Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principals.
philosophical power law
The law always limits every power it gives.
philosophical atheism principles
..when, in my philosophical disquisitions, I deny a providence and a future state, I undermine not the foundations of society, but advance principles, which they themselves, upon their own topics, if they argue consistently, must allow to be solid and satisfactory.
philosophical brain littles
What a peculiar privilege has this little agitation of the brain which we call 'thought'.
philosophical giving corruption
The corruption of the best things gives rise to the worst.
philosophical eye passion
Nothing appears more surprising to those, who consider human affairs with a philosophical eye, than the easiness with which the many are governed by the few; and the implicit submission, with which men resign their own sentiments and passions to those of their rulers.
philosophical expression america
The blues are important primarily because they contain the cultural expression and the cultural response to blacks in America and to the situation that they find themselves in. And contained in the blues is a philosophical system at work. And as part of the oral tradition, this is a way of passing along information. August Wilson
philosophical creative substance
Classical philosophical theism maintained the ontological distinction between God and creative world that is necessary for any genuine theism by conceiving them to be of different substances, with particular attributes predicated of each. Arthur Peacocke
philosophical animal needs
We need a boundless ethics which will include animals also. Albert Schweitzer
philosophical firsts virtue
The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue. Baruch Spinoza
philosophical virtue reason
True virtue is life under the direction of reason.
philosophical self ideas
Self-complacency is pleasure accompanied by the idea of oneself as cause.
philosophical taken wish
None are more taken in by flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and are not.
philosophical guidance reason
He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason.
philosophical pride men
Pride is pleasure arising from a man's thinking too highly of himself.
philosophical causes pantheism
God is the indwelling and not the transient cause of all things.
philosophical passion emotion
I can control my passions and emotions if I can understand their nature
philosophical pantheism without-god
Whatsoever is, is in God, and without God nothing can be, or be conceived.
philosophical ambition desire
Ambition is the immoderate desire for power.
philosophical men evil
If men were born free, they would, so long as they remained free, form no conception of good and evil.
philosophical learning past
If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
philosophical men opposites
Capitalism and altruism are incompatible; they are philosophical opposites; they cannot co-exist in the same man or in the same society. Ayn Rand
philosophical science engineering
We know very little, and yet it is astonishing that we know so much, and still more astonishing that so little knowledge can give us so much power. Bertrand Russell
philosophical animal men
It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence which could support this.
philosophical ideas political
My objection to Liberalism is this that it is the introduction into the practical business of life of the highest kind namely, politics of philosophical ideas instead of political principles. Benjamin Disraeli
philosophical people liberty
If you defend a behavior by arguing that people are programmed directly for it, then how do you continue to defend it if your speculation is wrong, for the behavior then becomes unnatural and worthy of condemnation. Better to stick resolutely to a philosophical position on human liberty: what free adults do with each other in their own private lives is their business alone. It need not be vindicated and must not be condemned by genetic speculation. Stephen Jay Gould
philosophical who-i-am
Who is it that can tell me who I am? William Shakespeare
philosophical venice world
I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano!