Quotes about philosophical
philosophical race years
Immanuel Kant lived with knowledge as with his lawfully wedded wife, slept with it in the same intellectual bed for forty years and begot an entire German race of philosophical systems. Stefan Zweig
philosophical vocabulary people
Language, the machine of the poet, is best fitted for his purpose in its rudest state. Nations, like individuals, first perceive, and then abstract. They advance from particular images to general terms. Hence the vocabulary of an enlightened society is philosophical, that of a half-civilized people is poetical. Thomas B. Macaulay
philosophical taken enemy
He that is taken and put into prison or chains is not conquered, though overcome; for he is still an enemy. Thomas Hobbes
philosophical dark leviathan
I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark.
philosophical men welcome
Such truth, as opposeth no man's profit, nor pleasure, is to all men welcome.
philosophical engineering physics
The Web is now philosophical engineering. Physics and the Web are both about the relationship between the small and the large. Tim Berners-Lee
philosophical thinking unlocking
It is, I think, particularly in periods of acknowledged crisis that scientists have turned to philosophical analysis as a device for unlocking the riddles of their field. Scientists have not generally needed or wanted to be philosophers. Thomas Kuhn
philosophical motherhood years
Surrogate motherhood has been the subject of much philosophical and political dispute over the years. Thomas Frank
philosophical heaven soul
This first glance of a soul which does not yet know itself is like dawn in the heavens; it is the awakening of something radiant and unknown. Victor Hugo
philosophical bird flying
Every bird that flies has the thread of the infinite in its claw.
philosophical lucky feels
I feel lucky, happy and philosophical about it all. Greta Scacchi
philosophical men hypocrisy
If you are a seer, whenever you meet a man you will see all that he owns, ay, and much that he pretends to disown, behind him. Henry David Thoreau
philosophical boys vision
Beside some philosophers of larger vision, Carlyle stands like an honest, half-despairing boy, grasping at some details only of their world systems.
philosophical thinking thoughtful
As our domestic fowls are said to have their original in the wild pheasant of India, so our domestic thoughts have their prototypes in the thoughts of her philosophers.
philosophical hero men
When we want culture more than potatoes, and illumination more than sugar-plums, then the great resources of a world are taxed anddrawn out, and the result, or staple production, is, not slaves, nor operatives, but men,--those rare fruits called heroes, saints, poets, philosophers, and redeemers.
philosophical animal self
I have just been through the process of killing a cistudo for the sake of science; but I cannot excuse myself for this murder, and see that such actions are inconsistent with the poetic perception, however they may serve science, and will affect the quality of my observations. I pray that I may walk more innocently and serenely through nature. No reasoning whatever reconciles me to this act. It affects my day injuriously. I have lost some self-respect. I have a murderer's experience to a degree.
philosophical men thinking
I saw a muskrat come out of a hole in the ice ... While I am looking at him, I am thinking what he is thinking of me. He is a different sort of man, that's all.
philosophical adversity sleep
Remorse sleeps during prosperity but awakes bitter consciousness during adversity. Jean-Jacques Rousseau
philosophical swag said
I have always said and felt that true enjoyment can not be described.
philosophical hero long
How many famous and high-spirited heroes have lived a day too long?
philosophical doe obedience
Force does not constitute right... obedience is due only to legitimate powers.
philosophical desire philosopher
Take from the philosopher the pleasure of being heard and his desire for knowledge ceases.
philosophical land environmental
You forget that the fruits belong to all and that the land belongs to no one.
philosophical opposites risk
Take the course opposite to custom and you will almost always do well.
philosophical wells fellows
All of my misfortunes come from having thought too well of my fellows.
philosophical existence humans
We never know we are beings till we love. And then it is we know the powers and potentialities of human existence. Jean Toomer
philosophical men animal
Man is the cruelest animal. Friedrich Nietzsche
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 murder abstract
I say a murder is abstract. You pull the trigger and after that you do not understand anything that happens. Jean-Paul Sartre
philosophical essence existence
Existence precedes and rules essence.
philosophical men resources
Who can exhaust a man? Who knows a man's resources?
philosophical sixteen saint
One cannot become a saint when one works sixteen hours a day.
philosophical men
Man is condemned to be free