Quotes about philosophical
philosophical dignity communist-manifesto
Reason has always existed, but not always in a reasonable form. Karl Marx
philosophical matter way
No matter what everybody says, ultimately these things can harm us only by the way we react to them. Moliere
philosophical humor men
There are men so philosophical that they can see humor in their own toothaches. But there has never lived a man so philosophical that he could see the toothache in his own humor. H. L. Mencken
philosophical men boys
The life of man in this world is like the life of a fly in a room filled with 100 boys, each armed with a fly-swatter.
philosophical years cautiousness
Cautiousness in judgment is nowadays to be recommended to each and every one: if we gained only one incontestable truth every ten years from each of our philosophical writers the harvest we reaped would be sufficient. Georg C. Lichtenberg
philosophical light want
The fly that doesn't want to be swatted is most secure when it lights on the fly-swatter.
philosophical christianity pity
Christianity is called the religion of pity. Friedrich Nietzsche
philosophical gay sections
The Gay Science, section 108
philosophical men justice
For men are not equal: thus speaks justice.
philosophical antichrist sections
The Antichrist, Section 7
philosophical evil aphorism
Beyond Good and Evil, Aphorism 153
philosophical mean past
Actual philosophers... are commanders and law-givers: they say "thus it shall be!", it is they who determine the Wherefore and Whither of mankind, and they possess for this task the preliminary work of all the philosophical laborers, of all those who have subdued the past - they reach for the future with creative hand, and everything that is or has been becomes for them a means, an instrument, a hammer.
philosophical people political
It is all too easy for a society to measure itself against some abstract philosophical principle or political slogan. But in the end, there must remain the question: What kind of life is one society providing to the people that live in it? Hubert H. Humphrey
philosophical men political
Isn't it really quite extraordinary to see that, since man took his first step, no one has asked himself why he walks, how he walks, if he has ever walked, if he could walk better, what he achieves in walking .. questions that are tied to all the philosophical, psychological, and political systems which preoccupy the world. Honore de Balzac
philosophical self color
The fondness or indifference that the philosophers expressed for life was merely a preference inspired by their self-love, and will no more bear reasoning upon than the relish of the palate or the choice of colors. Francois de La Rochefoucauld
philosophical flow
Everything flows and nothing stays. Homer
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 disease remedy
Extreme remedies are very appropriate for extreme diseases. Hippocrates
philosophical feelings historical
The sense of historical continuity, and a feeling for philosophical rectitude cannot, however, be compromised. Herbert Read
philosophical reading book
Reading is going toward something that is about to be, and no one yet knows what it will be. Italo Calvino
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 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
philosophical player piano
I'm a natural piano player. So all the practicing I do at this point is in my head. If I don't play for a year, my chops aren't going to get any worse. I've spent my time playing scales, and I don't necessarily want to play any faster than I play. So everything I do at this point is more philosophical. Harry Connick, Jr.
philosophical gay rainbow
Gay is a subculture, a slur, a set of gestures, a slang, a look, a posture, a parade, a rainbow flag, a film genre, a taste in music, a hairstyle, a marketing demographic, a bumper sticker, a political agenda and philosophical viewpoint. Gay is a pre-packaged, superficial persona-a lifestyle. It's a sexual identity that has almost nothing to do with sexuality. Jack Donovan
philosophical reading book
If a spectator with a philosophical mind, somebody accustomed to reading books, gets the same kind of information in a movie, he might not fully understand it. Manuel Puig
philosophical looks temporal-things
We look not at the things which are what you would call seen, but at the things which are not seen. For the things which are seen are temporal. But the things that are not seen are eternal. Madeleine L'Engle
philosophical interesting people
I'm not a sociologist, and the novel has often concerned itself with sociology. It's one of the generating forces that's made fiction interesting to people. But that's not my concern. I'm interested in psychology. And also certain philosophical questions about the world. Jonathan Lethem
philosophical broken tiny
When our tools are broken, we feel broken. And when somebody fixes one, we feel a tiny bit more whole. Jonathan Ive
philosophical interesting priorities
That's an interesting thing about an object. One object speaks volumes about the company that produced it and its values and priorities.
philosophical thinking trying
So much of what we try to do is get to a point where the solution seems inevitable: you know, you think "of course it's that way, why would it be any other way?" It looks so obvious, but that sense of inevitability in the solution is really hard to achieve.
philosophical mean design
Design is a word that's come to mean so much that it's also a word that has come to mean nothing.