Quotes about philosophic
philosophical tools faculty
Intelligence is the faculty of making artificial objects, especially tools to make tools. Henri Bergson
philosophical democracy motive
The motive power of democracy is love
philosophical race together
Are we not all shipwrecked,...condemned to death?... However impatient our neighbours make us, however much indignation our race arouses, we are all bound together, and the companions of a chain-gang have everything to lose by mutual insults... Henri Frederic Amiel
philosophical able phantoms
A microscopic phantom of the universe; this is all that we are able to be.
philosophical men judging
The philosopher is like a man fasting in the midst of universal intoxication. He alone perceives the illusion of which all creatures are the willing playthings; he is less duped than his neighbor by his own nature. He judges more sanely, he sees things as they are. It is in this that his liberty consists - in the ability to see clearly and soberly, in the power of mental record.
philosophical eye smell
I found that of the senses, the eye is the most superficial, the ear the most arrogant, smell the most voluptuous, taste the most superstitious and fickle, touch the most profound and the most philosophical. Helen Keller
philosophical soul matter
Things have a life of their own," the gypsy proclaimed with a harsh accent. "It's simply a matter of waking up their souls. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
philosophical writing men
We are much beholden to Machiavel and others, that write what men do, and not what they ought to do. Francis Bacon
philosophical mind unexpected
In unphilosophical minds any rare or unexpected thing excites wonder, while in philosophical minds the familiar excites wonder also. George Santayana
philosophical criminal-mind spirituality
The irrationality of a thing is no argument against its existence, rather a condition of it. Friedrich Nietzsche
philosophical noble nobility
It is nobler to declare oneself wrong than to insist on being right --especially when one is right.
philosophical law kind
I am a law only for my kind, I am no law for all.
philosophical fighting monsters
Be careful when you fight the monsters, lest you become one.
philosophical stupidity forget-the-past
To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity.
philosophical existential founders
Philosophical systems are wholly true for their founders only.
philosophical buddhism long
Buddhism is a hundred times as realistic as Christianity it is part of its living heritage that it is able to face problems objectively and coolly; it is the product of long centuries of philosophical speculation.
philosophical desire one-love
Ultimately one loves one's desires and not that which is desired.
philosophical men animal
Man is the cruelest animal.
philosophical men fire
A man who discovers his pants are on fire tends to have very little time to worry about somebody else's box of matches Jeff Lindsay
philosophical cartoon lobbying
I did this within a philosophical framework, and a moral and legal framework. And I have been turned into a cartoon of the greatest villain in the history of lobbying. Jack Abramoff
philosophical littles way
What Descartes did was a good step. You have added much several ways, and especially in taking the colours of thin plates into philosophical consideration. If I have seen a little further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants. Isaac Newton
philosophical views civilization
...What is at stake is civilization and humanity, nothing less. The idea that everything is permitted, as Nietzsche put it, rests on the premise of nihilism and has nihilistic implications. I will not pretend that the case against nihilism and for civilization is an easy one to make. We are here confronting the most fundamental of philosophical questions, on the deepest levels. In short, the matter of pornography and obscenity is not a trivial one, and only superficial minds can take a bland and untroubled view of it. Irving Kristol
philosophical numbers goal
With regard to philosophical metaphysics, I always see increasing numbers who have attained to the negative goal, but as yet few who climb a few rungs backwards; one ought to look out, perhaps, over the last steps of the ladder, but not try to stand upon them.
philosophical bears philosopher
Can an ass be tragic?--To perish under a burden that one can neither bear nor cast off? The case of the philosopher.
philosophical artist ideas
This is the fundamental idea of culture, insofar as it sets but one task for each of us: to further the production of the philosopher, of the artist, and of the saint within us and outside us, and thereby to work at the consummation of nature.
philosophical philosopher language
The philosopher caught in the nets of language.
philosophical thoughtful thinking
What verse is for the poet, dialectical thinking is for the philosopher. He grasps for it in order to get hold of his own enchantment, in order to perpetuate it.
philosophical
To be is to be perceived George Berkeley
philosophical ideas long
So long as I confine my thoughts to my own ideas divested of words, I do not see how I can be easily mistaken.
philosophical hero mean
I sing, not arms and the hero, but the philosophic man: he who seeks in contemplation to discover the inner will of the world, ininvention to discover the means of fulfilling that will, and in action to do that will by the so-discovered means. George Bernard Shaw
philosophical sleep men
Most men are not wicked... They are sleep-walkers, not evil evildoers. Franz Kafka
philosophical men thinking
Why'd you have to say that there's always someone who can do it better than I can And don't you think that I know that walkin' on water won't make me a miracle man Elvis Costello
philosophical america poverty
Poverty continues to exist. Its appearance seems to be relentless in evidencing itself not only to all the things we experience here in America, but certainly what we see globally. And I don't see anywhere any philosophical analysis that suggests we know how to get out of this. Harry Belafonte