Quotes about philosophical
philosophical conscious asks
It's when I am fully conscious that I ask questions. Eugene Ionesco
philosophical understanding given
It's only when I say that everything is incomprehensible that I come as close as possible to understanding the only thing it is given to us to understand.
philosophical mean important
Just because something might not have a deep philosophical meaning doesn't mean it's not important or relevant. Grimes
philosophical eggs hens
The argument about zoning and the presidency of Nigeria is like the philosophical argument of the egg or the hen. Who is older through the evolutionary process, who came first? Goodluck Jonathan
philosophical moderation
There is moderation in everything. Horace
philosophical simple substance
But in simple substances the influence of one monad over another is ideal only. Gottfried Leibniz
philosophical two facts
There are also two kinds of truths: truth of reasoning and truths of fact.
philosophical numbers goal
With regard to philosophical metaphysics, I always see increasing numbers who have attained to the negative goal, but as yet few who climb a few rungs backwards; one ought to look out, perhaps, over the last steps of the ladder, but not try to stand upon them. Friedrich Nietzsche
philosophical bears philosopher
Can an ass be tragic?--To perish under a burden that one can neither bear nor cast off? The case of the philosopher.
philosophical artist ideas
This is the fundamental idea of culture, insofar as it sets but one task for each of us: to further the production of the philosopher, of the artist, and of the saint within us and outside us, and thereby to work at the consummation of nature.
philosophical philosopher language
The philosopher caught in the nets of language.
philosophical thoughtful thinking
What verse is for the poet, dialectical thinking is for the philosopher. He grasps for it in order to get hold of his own enchantment, in order to perpetuate it.
philosophical
To be is to be perceived George Berkeley
philosophical ideas long
So long as I confine my thoughts to my own ideas divested of words, I do not see how I can be easily mistaken.
philosophical hero mean
I sing, not arms and the hero, but the philosophic man: he who seeks in contemplation to discover the inner will of the world, ininvention to discover the means of fulfilling that will, and in action to do that will by the so-discovered means. George Bernard Shaw
philosophical sleep men
Most men are not wicked... They are sleep-walkers, not evil evildoers. Franz Kafka
philosophical soul matter
Things have a life of their own," the gypsy proclaimed with a harsh accent. "It's simply a matter of waking up their souls. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
philosophical criticism reason
On the road halfway between faith and criticism stands the inn of reason. Reason is faith in what can be understood without faith, but it's still a faith, since to understand presupposes that there's something understandable. Fernando Pessoa
philosophical views greek
The first of these phases is that of grammar, invented by the Greeks and carried on unchanged by the French. It never had any philosophical view of a language as such. Ferdinand de Saussure
philosophical writing men
We are much beholden to Machiavel and others, that write what men do, and not what they ought to do. Francis Bacon
philosophical body movement
I see plainly how external images influence the image that I call my body : they transmit movement to it. Henri Bergson
philosophical mind tasks
The major task of the twentieth century will be to explore the unconscious, to investigate the subsoil of the mind.
philosophical mysticism
Religion is to mysticism what popularization is to science
philosophical simple mind
I cannot escape the objection that there is no state of mind, however simple, that does not change every moment
philosophical giving movement
And I also see how this body influences external images: it gives back movement to them.
philosophical past reality
In reality, the past is preserved by itself automatically.
philosophical tools faculty
Intelligence is the faculty of making artificial objects, especially tools to make tools.
philosophical democracy motive
The motive power of democracy is love
philosophical race together
Are we not all shipwrecked,...condemned to death?... However impatient our neighbours make us, however much indignation our race arouses, we are all bound together, and the companions of a chain-gang have everything to lose by mutual insults... Henri Frederic Amiel
philosophical able phantoms
A microscopic phantom of the universe; this is all that we are able to be.
philosophical men judging
The philosopher is like a man fasting in the midst of universal intoxication. He alone perceives the illusion of which all creatures are the willing playthings; he is less duped than his neighbor by his own nature. He judges more sanely, he sees things as they are. It is in this that his liberty consists - in the ability to see clearly and soberly, in the power of mental record.
philosophical eye smell
I found that of the senses, the eye is the most superficial, the ear the most arrogant, smell the most voluptuous, taste the most superstitious and fickle, touch the most profound and the most philosophical. Helen Keller
philosophical paradox contradiction
There are many of these apparent philosophical paradoxes or contradictions which don't concern me anymore. Evan Parker