Quotes about philosophical
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.
philosophical perception stuff
I figured out some basic stuff: that form and colour defines your perception of the nature of an object, whether or not it is intended to.
philosophical apples design
Apple's Jony Ive describes his "fanatical" approach to design in new interview
philosophical people design
Very often design is the most immediate way of defining what products become in people's minds.
philosophical goal simplicity
Our goal is to try to bring a calm and simplicity to what are incredibly complex problems so that you're not aware really of the solution.
philosophical simple simplicity
Simplicity is not the absence of clutter, that's a consequence of simplicity. Simplicity is somehow essentially describing the purpose and place of an object and product. The absence of clutter is just a clutter-free product. That's not simple.
philosophical essence order
You have to deeply understand the essence of a product in order to be able to get rid of the parts that are not essential.
philosophical difficult-and-easy growing
It's very easy to be different, but very difficult to be better.
philosophical passage-of-time passages
The mere passage of time makes us all exiles. Joyce Carol Oates
philosophical
Whatever is received is received according to the nature of the recipient. Thomas Aquinas
philosophical thoughtful love-is
All the efforts of the human mind cannot exhaust the essence of a single fly.
philosophical spirit said
All that is true, by whomsoever it has been said has its origin in the Spirit.
philosophical evil catholic
Good can exist without evil, whereas evil cannot exist without good.
philosophical demand reason
Human salvation demands the divine disclosure of truths surpassing reason.
philosophical reading book
Beware of the person of one book.
philosophical hands catholic
To convert somebody go and take them by the hand and guide them.
philosophical thoughtful love-is
How can we live in harmony? First we need to know we are all madly in love with the same God.
philosophical animal race
Oh, a very useful philosophical animal, your average tortoise. Outrunning metaphorical arrows, beating hares in races... very handy. Terry Pratchett
philosophical who-we-are
We all can be only who we are, no more, no less. Terry Goodkind
philosophical metaphor universe
The entire universe is nothing but a great metaphor. Simone Weil
philosophical character trying
If you thought you were trying to find out more about it because you're gonna get an answer to some deep philosophical question...you may be wrong! It may be that you can't get an answer to that particular question by finding out more about the character of nature. But my interest in science is to simply find out about the world. Richard P. Feynman
philosophical people intuition
People may come along and argue philosophically that they like one better than another; but we have learned from much experience that all philosophical intuitions about what nature is going to do fail.
philosophical special facts
Evolution is a theory in a special philosophical sense of science, but in terms of ordinary laymen's use of language, it's a fact, .. Evolution is a fact in the same sense that it's a fact that the Earth is round and not flat, [that] the Earth goes round the Sun. Both those are also theories, but they're theories that have never been disproved and never will be disproved. Richard Dawkins
philosophical years doctors
Even if the doctor does not give you a year, even if he hesitates about a month, make one brave push and see what can be accomplished in a week. Robert Louis Stevenson
philosophical writing rome
If there had been a censorship of the press in Rome we should have had today neither Horace nor Juvenal, nor the philosophical writings of Cicero. Voltaire
philosophical poverty comfort
The comfort of the rich depends upon an abundant supply of the poor.
philosophical reflection psychology
Philosophical reflection could not leave the relation of mind and spirit in the obscurity which had satisfied the needs of the naive consciousness. Wilhelm Wundt
philosophical choices our-choices
We Are The Sum Total Of Our Choices... Woody Allen
philosophical character play
Within weeks of our premiere, it became obvious that Leonard [Nimoy] and the character of Spock were becoming something of a national phenomenon. ... And to be unflatteringly frank, it bugged me. ... [Then, Gene Roddenberry] said to me the wisest thing he could possibly have uttered. He said, `Don't ever fear having good and popular people around you, because they can only enhance your own performance. The more you can play to these people, the better the show.' William Shatner