Quotes about philosophy
philosophy thinking sky
'Twas strange that one so young should thus concern His brain about the action of the sky; If you think 'twas philosophy that this did, I can't help thinking puberty assisted. Lord Byron
philosophy real order
It is puzzling to me that otherwise sensitive people develop a real docility about the obvious necessity of eating, at least once a day, in order to stay alive. Often they lose their primal enjoyment of flavors and odors and textures to the point of complete unawareness. And if ever they question this progressive numbing-off, they shrug helplessly in the face of mediocrity everywhere. Bit by bit, hour by hour, they say, we are being forced to accept the not-so-good as the best, since there is little that is even good to compare it with. M. F. K. Fisher
philosophy mean law
Scientific wealth tends to accumulate according to the law of compound interest. Every addition to knowledge of the properties of matter supplies the physical scientist with new instrumental means for discovering and interpreting phenomena of nature, which in their turn afford foundations of fresh generalisations, bringing gains of permanent value into the great storehouse of natural philosophy. Lord Kelvin
philosophy men modern
Modern man lives increasingly in the future and neglects the present. Loren Eiseley
philosophy thinking games
You think that way as you begin to get grayer and you see pretty plainly that the game is not going to end as you planned.
philosophy struggle men
Mind is locked in matter like the spirit Ariel in a cloven pine. Like Ariel, men struggle to escape the drag of the matter they inhabit, yet it is the spirit that they fear.
philosophy reflection thoughtful
Though we cannot totally change our nature, we may in great measure correct it by reflection and philosophy; and some philosophy is a very necessary companion in this world, where, even to the most fortunate, the chances are greatly against happiness. Lord Chesterfield
philosophy pedants philosopher
The scholar without good breeding is a pedant; the philosopher, a cynic.
philosophy long world
The late Président de Montesquieu told me that he knew how to be blind--he had been so for such a long time--but I swear that I do not know how to be deaf: I cannot get used to it, and I am as humiliated and distressed by it today as I was during the first week. No philosophy in the world can palliate deafness.
philosophy cities trying
That was it! The whole Redwood City philosophy was based on a willingness to try harder than anyone else. Malcolm Gladwell
philosophy mean medicine
We don't know where our first impressions come from or precisely what they mean, so we don't always appreciate their fragility.
philosophy community decision
We are a company that lives and breathes a philosophy that's centered on not only making sound business decisions but also personally and professionally finding ways to contribute to the well being of society. We are also a company that understands community. Magic Johnson
philosophy distance medicine
How individuals of the same species surpass each other in these sensations and in other bodily faculties is universally known, but there is a limit to them, and their power cannot extend to every distance or to every degree. Maimonides
philosophy struggle life-is
The philosophy of life is this: Life is not a struggle, not a tension Life is bliss. It is eternal wisdom, eternal existence. Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
philosophy inspiration dust
All our philosophy is as dry as dust if it is not immediately translated into some act of living service. Mahatma Gandhi
philosophy want giving-back
Be the change that you want to see
philosophy winning thinking
When I see big movies that are only about good versus evil, and the good guy wins, I only can think we're in a far more complicated world than that. I frankly think that this binary philosophy is actually a dangerous way to look at the world. Gavin Hood
philosophy want
I don't want to be anything other than me. Gavin DeGraw
philosophy moving ambition
The philosophy I shared... was one of ambition - ambition to succeed, ambition to grow, ambition to move forward - backed up by hard work. Frank Lowy
philosophy people safe
Monogamy is monotonous, but it's safe you know. And that's my philosophy. And I like to convey that to people. Joy Behar
philosophy book past
How glorious, then, is the prospect, the reverse of all the past, which is now opening upon us, and upon the world. Government, we may now expect to see, not only in theory and in books but in actual practice, calculated for the general good, and taking no more upon it than the general good requires, leaving all men the enjoyment of as many of their natural rights as possible, and no more interfering with matters of religion, with men's notions concerning God, and a future state, than with philosophy, or medicine. Joseph Priestley
philosophy reality trying
Woe be to him who tries to isolate one department of knowledge from the rest. All science is one: language, literature and history, physics, mathematics and philosophy; subjects which seem the most remote from one another are in reality connected, or rather they all form a single system. Jules Michelet
philosophy men laughing
It strains a man's philosophy the worst kind to laugh when he gets beat. Josh Billings
philosophy unity universal
As a universal history of philosophy, the history of philosophy must become one great unity. Karl Jaspers
philosophy reality men
The history of philosophy is not, like the history of the sciences, to be studied with the intellect alone. That which is receptive in us and that which impinges upon us from history is the reality of man's being, unfolding itself in thought.
philosophy way tested
Philosophy is tested and characterised by the way in which it appropriates its history.
philosophy concrete comprehension
Philosophy can only be approached with the most concrete comprehension.
philosophy understanding essentials
The great philosophers and the great works are standards for the selection of what is essential. Everything that we do in studying the history of philosophy ultimately serves their better understanding.
philosophy moments hegel
At the present moment, the security of coherent philosophy, which existed from Parmenides to Hegel, is lost.
philosophy mean motherhood
Philosophy as practice does not mean its restriction to utility or applicability, that is, to what serves morality or produces serenity of soul.
philosophy way answers
It is the search for the truth, not possession of the truth which is the way of philosophy. Its questions are more relevant than its answers, and every answer becomes a new question.
philosophy theology
There is no philosophy that is not to some extent also theology. Karl Barth
philosophy men theme
The relation of this God with this man; the relation of this man with this God--this is the only theme of the Bible and of philosophy.