Quotes about philosophical
philosophical mean law
Not that I wish by any means to deny, that the mental life of individuals and peoples is also in conformity with law, as is the object of philosophical, philological, historical, moral, and social sciences to establish. Hermann von Helmholtz
philosophical trying way
...while there is such a thing as correctness in ethics, in interpretation, in mathematics, the way to understand that is not by trying to model it on the ways in which we get things right in physics.... Hilary Putnam
philosophical reality names
Life has the name of life, but in reality it is death. Heraclitus
philosophical passage-of-time passages
The mere passage of time makes us all exiles. Joyce Carol Oates
philosophical thinking people
People habituate themselves to let things pass through their minds, as one may speak, rather than to think of them. Thus by use they become satisfied merely with seeing what is said, without going any further. Review and attention, and even forming a judgment, becomes fatigue; and to lay anything before them that requires it, is putting them quite out of their way. Joseph Butler
philosophical needs cards
Like any joker, he was watching For the card that is so high and wild He'll never need to deal another He was just some Joseph looking for a manger Leonard Cohen
philosophical firsts doe
The work with which we embark on this first volume of a series of theological studies is a work with which the philosophical person does not begin, but rather concludes. Hans Urs von Balthasar
philosophical romance stories
Christianity met the mythological search for romance by being a story and the philosophical search for truth by being a true story. Gilbert K. Chesterton
philosophical thinking doubt
Blasphemy is an artistic effect, because blasphemy depends upon a philosophical conviction. Blasphemy depends upon belief and is fading with it. If any one doubts this, let him sit down seriously and try to think blasphemous thoughts about Thor.
philosophical learning men
Mere poets are sottish as mere drunkards are, who live in a continual mist, without seeing or judging anything clearly. A man should be learned in several sciences, and should have a reasonable, philosophical and in some measure a mathematical head, to be a complete and excellent poet. John Dryden
philosophical punishment evil
Good and evil, reward and punishment, are the only motives to a rational creature John Locke
philosophical perspective evil
The dread of evil is a much more forcible principle of human actions than the prospect of good.
philosophical long world
Things of this world are in so constant a flux, that nothing remains long in the same state.
philosophical ideas mind
The mind is furnished with ideas by experience alone
philosophical justice injustice
Where there is no property there is no injustice.
philosophical support virtue
Fortitude is the guard and support of the other virtues.
philosophical knowledge science
No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience.
philosophical fruit-of-labor wealth
All wealth is the product of labor.
philosophical government ends
Government has no other end, but the preservation of property.
philosophical character discipline
The discipline of desire is the background of character.
philosophical parenting bitterness
Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain.
philosophical thinking wish
If I am not pleased with myself, but should wish to be other than I am, why should I think highly of the influences which have made me what I am? John Lancaster Spalding
philosophical thought-provoking together
If one has not read the newspapers for some months and then reads them all together, one sees, as one never saw before, how much time is wasted with this kind of literature. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
philosophical woods stones
God is nearer to me than I am to myself; He is just as near to wood and stone, but they do not know it.
philosophical soul subtraction
God is not found in the soul by adding anything but by a process of subtraction.
philosophical yesterday lasts
The now wherein God made the world is as near this time as the now I am speaking in this moment, and the last day is as near this now as was yesterday.
philosophical worry people
People should not worry so much about what they do but rather about what they are.
philosophical thinking today
Think I'll flip a coin, I'm a winner either way Mmmmmm, I feel lucky today Mary Chapin Carpenter
philosophical men humanity
In philosophical anthropology, ... where the subject is man in his wholeness, the investigator cannot content himself, as in anthropology as an individual science, with considering man as another part of nature and with ignoring the fact that he, the investigator, is himself a man and experiences this humanity in his inner experience in a way that he simply cannot experience any part of nature. Martin Buber
philosophical men subjectivity
The philosophical anthropologist ... can know the wholeness of the person and through it the wholeness of man only when he does not leave his subjectivity out and does not remain an untouched observer.
philosophical night people
Godshawk looked surprised, the way that people generally do when you ask them philosophical questions in shrubberies in the middle of the night. Philip Reeve
philosophical men squares
The Phenomenon of Man stands square in the tradition of Naturphilosophie, a philosophical indoor pastime of German origin which does not seem even by accident (though there is a great deal of it) to have contributed anything of permanent value to the storehouse of human thought. Peter Medawar
philosophical errors important
Al-Ghazali is the most important philosophical theologian of classical Islam, and Moderation in Belief is among his most important works. It sets out al-Ghazali's Ash?arite theology with unusual clarity and provides important background for such well-known works as his autobiographical Deliverance from Error and his attack on Avicenna in The Incoherence of the Philosophers. This first English-language translation, with notes that bring out the argumentation and background of the work, is thus very much to be welcomed. Peter Adamson