Quotes about philosophical
philosophical taken eye
No notice is taken of a little evil, but when it increases it strikes the eye. Aristotle
philosophical age ornaments
Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age.
philosophical possibility mathematical
Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities.
philosophical constitution states
A constitution is the arrangement of magistracies in a state.
philosophical men repentance
Bad men are full of repentance.
philosophical class perfect
The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes.
philosophical mean character
Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion.
philosophical passion law
The law is reason, free from passion.
philosophical insanity soul
No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness.
philosophical law written
Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered.
philosophical history poetry
Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.
philosophical doe vain
Nature does nothing in vain.
philosophical cities city-life
A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.
philosophical soul-and-body figures
We must no more ask whether the soul and body are one than ask whether the wax and the figure impressed on it are one.
philosophical tyrants people
Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms.
philosophical equality egalitarianism
The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
philosophical historical society
Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms.
philosophical animal needs
We need a boundless ethics which will include animals also. Albert Schweitzer
philosophical thinking order
I think there is a profound and enduring beauty in simplicity; in clarity, in efficiency. True simplicity is derived from so much more than just the absence of clutter and ornamentation. It's about bringing order to complexity. Jonathan Ive
philosophical writing talking
It is a safe rule to apply that, when a mathematical or philosophical author writes with a misty profundity, he is talking nonsense. Alfred North Whitehead
philosophical mean land
It is inconceivable to me that an ethical relation to land can exist without love, respect, and admiration for land, and a high regard for its value. By value, I of course mean something far broader than mere economic value; I mean value in the philosophical sense. Aldo Leopold
philosophical theory given
Now to the term 'relativity theory.' I admit that it is unfortunate, and has given occasion to philosophical misunderstandings. Albert Einstein
philosophical seductive intention
There is in Albert Camus’ literary craftsmanship a seductive intelligence that could almost make a reader dismiss his philosophical intentions if he had not insisted on making them so clear. Aberjhani
philosophical law amusement
We might even invent laws for series or formula in an arbitrary manner, and set the engine to work upon them, and thus deduce numerical results which we might not otherwise have thought of obtaining; but this would hardly perhaps in any instance be productive of any great practical utility, or calculated to rank higher than as a philosophical amusement. Ada Lovelace
philosophical thinking should-have
I don't think that everyone should have a philosophical answer to any given question. There are things that need to be done. Aleksandar Hemon
philosophical strange
Nor is it strange That after changes upon changes, we are more or less the same Paul Simon
philosophical language preoccupation
It was less a literary thing than a linguistic, philosophical preoccupation... discovering how far you can go with language to create immediate, elementary experience. Robert Morgan
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!
philosophical character science
From the outset, however, this whole controversy has been plagued by tacit assumptions, very often of a philosophical rather than a physical character... David Bohm
philosophical ideas people
When most people turn on their TVs, they don't expect a frank discussion of philosophical ideas in their practical context. Or any context. David O. Russell
philosophical racism political
Anti-Semitism has no historical, political and certainly no philosophical origins. Anti-Semitism is a disease. Daniel Barenboim
philosophical white black
In it he proves that all things are true and states how the truths of all contradictions may be reconciled physically, such as for example that white is black and black is white; that one can be and not be at the same time; that there can be hills without valleys; that nothingness is something and that everything, which is, is not. But take note that he proves all these unheard-of paradoxes without any fallacious or sophistical reasoning. Cyrano de Bergerac