Quotes about philosophical
philosophical hands ideas
Inflationism, however, is not an isolated phenomenon. It is only one piece in the total framework of politico-economic and socio-philosophical ideas of our time. Just as the sound money policy of gold standard advocates went hand in hand with liberalism, free trade, capitalism and peace, so is inflationism part and parcel of imperialism, militarism, protectionism, statism and socialism. Ludwig von Mises
philosophical dental-work endurance
There was never yet philosopher that could endure the toothache patiently William Shakespeare
philosophical animal thinking
Think occasionally of the suffering of which you spare yourself the sight. Albert Schweitzer
philosophical men obscurity
One of the only coherent philosophical positions is thus revolt. It is a constant confrontation between man and his own obscurity. Albert Camus
philosophical everyday important
The most important thing you do everyday you live is deciding not to kill yourself.
philosophical giving shadow
A myth is far truer than a history, for a history only gives a story of the shadows, whereas a myth gives a story of the substances that cast the shadows. Annie Besant
philosophical vision shapes
The partition separating life from death is so tenuous. The unbelievable fragility of our organism suggests a vision on a screen: a kind of mist condenses itself into a human shape, lasts a moment and scatters. Czeslaw Milosz
philosophical people different
Some people say What's the use of the term if it has to be so fully documented and constrained and footnoted and all the rest. My response to that is: there is no theological word that does not have to be similarly footnoted and constrained: justification, spirit, sanctification etc. Any term can be distorted or domesticated or fly off the handle because of another alien philosophical structure that's imposed on the text and so on. Inerrancy is no different from what we find in every other theologically loaded word. D. A. Carson
philosophical men matter
They lived freely among the students, they argued with the men over philosophical, sociological and artistic matters, they were just as good as the men themselves: only better, since they were women. D. H. Lawrence
philosophical animal men
To affirm life is to deepen, to make more inward, and to exalt the will-to-life. At the same time the man who has become a thinking being feels a compulsion to give every will-to-live the same reverence for life that he gives to his own. He experiences that other life as his own. He accepts as being good: to preserve life, to raise to its highest value life which is capable of development; and as being evil: to destroy life, to injure life, to repress life which is capable of development. This is the absolute, fundamental principle of the moral, and it is a necessity of thought.
philosophical doors inquiry
To the extent that philosophical positions both confuse us and close doors to further inquiry, they are likely to be wrong. E. O. Wilson
philosophical thought-provoking size
If life is going to exist in a Universe of this size, then the one thing it cannot afford to have is a sense of proportion. Douglas Adams
philosophical speaks-out wind
One good reason for the popularity of "reductionism" among the philosophical outposts of the Western Establishment is that it can be, and is, used as a device for trying to take the wind, so to speak, out of the sails of Marxism. . . . In essence reductionism is a kind of anti-Marxist caricature of Marxist determinism. It is what anti-Marxists pretend that Marxist determinism is. Claud Cockburn
philosophical civilization space
Freedom is neither a legal invention nor a philosophical conquest, the cherished possession of civilizations more valid than others because they alone have been able to create or preserve it. It is the outcome of an objective relationship between the individual and the space he occupies, between the consumer and the resources at his disposal. Claude Levi-Strauss
philosophical home europe
Europe, in legend, has always been the home of subtle philosophical discussion; America was the land of grubby pragmatism.
philosophical character mean
If some people read my fiction and see it as fundamentally about philosophical ideas, what it probably means is that these are pieces where the characters are not as alive and interesting as I meant them to be. David Foster Wallace
philosophical journey thinking
As a filmmaker, I ask questions but don't have answers. Moviemaking is a philosophical exploration. I invite the audience to come on the journey and discover what they think and feel. David Cronenberg
philosophical tired thinking
There are signs, these days, that the cultural hegemony of postmodernism is weakening in the West. When even the developers tell an architect like Moshe Safdie that they are tired of it, then can philosophical thinking be far behind? David Harvey
philosophical beer government
An oppressive government is more to be feared than a tiger. Confucius
philosophical ideas names
We know next to nothing with any certainty about Pythagoras, except that he was not really called Pythagoras. The name by which he is known to us was probably a nickname bestowed by his followers. According to one source, it meant ‘He who spoke truth like an oracle’. Rather than entrust his mathematical and philosophical ideas to paper, Pythagoras is said to have expounded them before large crowds. The world’s most famous mathematician was also its first rhetorician. Daniel Tammet
philosophical touching together
...and our spirits rushed together at the touching of the lips. Alfred Lord Tennyson
philosophical soul awkward
To understand is nothing, but to be understood-that is the problem and the source of anguish. The soul throbs and would have the other know-but can not and feels isolated. Then come gestures, words, awkward explanations and material symbols for imponderable outbursts of feeling-and the soul despairs. Andre Gide
philosophical share
In everything, there is a share of everything Anaxagoras
philosophical hero support
Existentialism is about being a saint without God; being your own hero, without all the sanction and support of religion or society. Anita Brookner
philosophical public-opinion doe
No policy that does not rest upon some philosophical public opinion can be permanently maintained. Abraham Lincoln
philosophical interesting house
'Ape House' is an ambitious novel in several ways, for which it is to be admired, and it is certainly an easy read, but because Gruen is not quite prepared for the philosophical implications of her subject, it is not as deeply involving emotionally or as interesting thematically as it could be. Jane Smiley
philosophical eye doe
You swore you'd never compromise With the mystery tramp, but now you realise He's not selling any alibis As you stare into the vacuum of his eyes And say, do you want to make a deal How does it feel Bob Dylan
philosophical matter spirit
The philosophical spirit is not satisfied to simply accept what it is told, no matter how much prestige the teller seems to have. This is true even if the teller is a god. Brendan Myers
philosophical men discarded
It is only a man's own fundamental thoughts that have truth and life in them. Arthur Schopenhauer
philosophical law opinion
Opinion is like a pendulum and obeys the same law.
philosophical mean men
Honor means that a man is not exceptional; fame, that he is.
philosophical boredom sides
Boredom is just the reverse side of fascination.
philosophical hands newspapers
Newspapers are the second hand of history.