Quotes about philosophical
philosophical agreement people
One of my favorite philosophical tenets is that people will agree with you only if they already agree with you. You do not change people's minds. Frank Zappa
philosophical sight ideas
On scientific grounds this big bang assumption is much less the palatable of the two. For it is an irrational process that cannot be described in scientific terms. . . . On philosophical grounds too I cannot see any good reason for preferring the big bang idea. Indeed it seems to me in the philosophical sense to be a distinctly unsatisfactory notion, since it puts the basic assumption out of sight where it can never be challenged by a direct appeal to observation. Fred Hoyle
philosophical school thinking
What I think I have in common with the school of deconstruction is the mode of negative thinking or negative awareness, in the technical, philosophical sense of the negative, but which comes to me through negative theology. Harold Bloom
philosophical loss iowa
Rick Perry was philosophical about (his election losses). He said, 'Last week was Iowa. Yesterday was New Hampshire. ' He said at least it's giving him a chance to learn the names of all the states. Jay Leno
philosophical matter way
No matter what everybody says, ultimately these things can harm us only by the way we react to them. Moliere
philosophical world alternatives
The only good reason to embrace a philosophical position is that you are convinced it is true or at least makes sense of the world better than the alternatives. Julian Baggini
philosophical thinking decision
...life is a gift bestowed without anyone asking for it; that the thinking person has a philosophical duty to examine both the nature of life and the conditions it comes with; and that if this person decides to renounce the gift no one asks for, it is the moral and human duty to act on the consequences of that decision. Julian Barnes
philosophical artist unhappy
Every artist is an unhappy lover. Iris Murdoch
philosophical giving
Time takes all and gives all Giordano Bruno
philosophical sheep enlightenment
I want to find a way of speaking to fellow human beings that will be cool rather than heated, philosophical rather than polemical, that will bring enlightenment rather than seeking to divide us into the righteous and the sinners, the saved and the damned, the sheep and the goats. J. M. Coetzee
philosophical humor men
There are men so philosophical that they can see humor in their own toothaches. But there has never lived a man so philosophical that he could see the toothache in his own humor. H. L. Mencken
philosophical men boys
The life of man in this world is like the life of a fly in a room filled with 100 boys, each armed with a fly-swatter.
philosophical years cautiousness
Cautiousness in judgment is nowadays to be recommended to each and every one: if we gained only one incontestable truth every ten years from each of our philosophical writers the harvest we reaped would be sufficient. Georg C. Lichtenberg
philosophical light want
The fly that doesn't want to be swatted is most secure when it lights on the fly-swatter.
philosophical christianity pity
Christianity is called the religion of pity. Friedrich Nietzsche
philosophical gay sections
The Gay Science, section 108
philosophical men justice
For men are not equal: thus speaks justice.
philosophical antichrist sections
The Antichrist, Section 7
philosophical evil aphorism
Beyond Good and Evil, Aphorism 153
philosophical mean past
Actual philosophers... are commanders and law-givers: they say "thus it shall be!", it is they who determine the Wherefore and Whither of mankind, and they possess for this task the preliminary work of all the philosophical laborers, of all those who have subdued the past - they reach for the future with creative hand, and everything that is or has been becomes for them a means, an instrument, a hammer.
philosophical self color
The fondness or indifference that the philosophers expressed for life was merely a preference inspired by their self-love, and will no more bear reasoning upon than the relish of the palate or the choice of colors. Francois de La Rochefoucauld
philosophical flow
Everything flows and nothing stays. Homer
philosophical people political
It is all too easy for a society to measure itself against some abstract philosophical principle or political slogan. But in the end, there must remain the question: What kind of life is one society providing to the people that live in it? Hubert H. Humphrey
philosophical men political
Isn't it really quite extraordinary to see that, since man took his first step, no one has asked himself why he walks, how he walks, if he has ever walked, if he could walk better, what he achieves in walking .. questions that are tied to all the philosophical, psychological, and political systems which preoccupy the world. Honore de Balzac
philosophical thinking offering
The philosophical implication of race-thinking is that by offering us the mystery of heredity as an explanation, it diverts our attention from the social and intellectual factors that make up personality. Jacques Barzun
philosophical imagination age
Theories of genius are the peculiar constructions of our own philosophical times; ages of genius had passed away, and they left no other record than their works; no preconcerted theory described the workings of the imagination to be without imagination, nor did they venture to teach how to invent invention. Isaac Disraeli
philosophical reason divine
Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason. Immanuel Kant
philosophical construction reason
Philosophical knowledge is the knowledge gained by reason from concepts ; mathematical knowledge is the knowledge gained by reason from the construction of concepts.
philosophical race work-out
A philosophical attempt to work out a universal history according to a natural plan directed to achieving the civic union of the human race must be regarded as possible and, indeed, as contributing to this end of Nature.
philosophical animal men
cruelty to animals is contrary to man's duty to himself, because it deadens in him the feeling of sympathy for their sufferings, and thus a natural tendency that is very useful to morality in relation to other human beings is weakened.
philosophical hands scare
If, like Hume, I had all manner of adornment in my power, I would still have reservations about using them. It is true that some readers will be scared off by dryness. But isn't it necessary to scare off some if in their case the matter would end up in bad hands?
philosophical purpose would-be
A categorical imperative would be one which represented an action as objectively necessary in itself, without reference to any other purpose.
philosophical reality doe
But although all our knowledge begins with experience, it does not follow that it arises from experience.