Quotes about philosophical
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 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 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 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. Albert Schweitzer
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 confusion doubt
Reason well from the beginning and then there will never be any need to look back with confusion and doubt. Dalai Lama
philosophical mean responsibility
The past is past, and the future is yet to come. That means the future is in your hands - the future entirely depends on the present. That realization gives you a great responsibility.
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
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 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 touching together
...and our spirits rushed together at the touching of the lips. Alfred Lord Tennyson
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 people liberty
If you defend a behavior by arguing that people are programmed directly for it, then how do you continue to defend it if your speculation is wrong, for the behavior then becomes unnatural and worthy of condemnation. Better to stick resolutely to a philosophical position on human liberty: what free adults do with each other in their own private lives is their business alone. It need not be vindicated and must not be condemned by genetic speculation. Stephen Jay Gould
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 men cruelty
Tis a cruelty to load a fallen man.
philosophical men pieces
What a piece of work is a man
philosophical opportunity men
There is a tide in the affairs of men
philosophical patient ministers
The patient must minister to himself
philosophical light seeking
Light, seeking light, doth light of light beguile
philosophical
'Tis better to be vile than vile esteemed
philosophical heaven religion
No philosophical theory which I have yet come across is a radical improvement on the words of Genesis, that 'In the beginning God made Heaven and Earth'. C. S. Lewis