Philosophic Quotes
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Philosophy begins in wonder. And, at the end, when philosophic thought has done its best, the wonder remains.
Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck.
The process of philosophic and scientific enlightenment has shaken the stability of beliefs held explicitly as articles of faith.
It takes an unusually philosophic mind to accept that all one’s suffering might be to no end, really, in the larger scheme of things.
I think that one should view with philosophic admiration the strange paths of the libido and should investigate the purposes of its circuitous ways.
Good humor is a philosophic state of mind; it seems to say to nature that we take her no more seriously than she takes us.
Good-humor is a philosophic state of mind; it seems to say to Nature that we take her no more seriously than she takes us. I maintain that one should always talk of philosophy with a smile.
If we are to take for the criterion of truth the majority of suffrages, they ought to be gotten from those philosophic and patriotic citizens who cultivate their reason.
I needn't tell you that success and failure prove nothing - the whole thing is a lottery. It's pleasant to succeed; but for a philosophic mind it oughtn't to be very upsetting to fail.
Monotheism owes its existence not to philosophic speculation about the nature of reality or knowledge or virtue, but to acceptance of reality identified with a supreme being.
So the nature required to make a really noble Guardian of our commonwealth will be swift and strong, spirited, and philosophic.
The philosophic aim of education must be to get each one out of his isolated class and into the one humanity.
Democracy, thus French revolution, was not invented by philosophic theory nor by the bourgeois leadership. It was discovered by the masses in their method of action.
I mistrust the satisfaction which makes a display of the possession of Infinity; that is called fatuity in philosophic terms.
To despise riches, may, indeed, be philosophic, but to dispense them worthily, must surely be more beneficial to mankind.
Philosophic meditation is an accomplishment by which I attain Being and my own self, not impartial thinking which studies a subject with indifference.
The third principle is that any philosophic knowledge is only valuable if it is true or if it works.
Modern Americans travel light, with little philosophic baggage other than a fervent belief in their right to the pursuit of happiness.
When philosophic reason is clear and certain by intuition or necessary induction, no subsequent revelation supported by prophecies or miracles can supersede it.
The mysteries of Nature and of humanity are not lessened, but increased, by the discoveries of philosophic skill.
We may say that hysteria is a caricature of an artistic creation, a compulsion neurosis a caricature of a religion, and a paranoiac delusion a caricature of a philosophic system.
A detective story generally describes six living men discussing how it is that a man is dead. A modern philosophic story generally describes six dead men discussing how any man can possibly be alive.
Paul Brunton's Notebooks are a veritable treasure-trove of philosophic-spiritual wisdom.
I don't think literature will be purged until its philosophic pretentiousness is extruded, and I shant live to see that purge, nor perhaps when it has happened will anything survive.
Science, like art, religion, political theory, or psychoanalysis - is work that holds out the promise of philosophic understanding, excites in us the belief that we can 'make sense of it all.
Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are of the nature rather of universals, whereas those of history are singulars.
The philosophic spirit of inquiry may be traced to brute curiosity, and that to the habit of examining all things in search of food. Artistic genius is an expansion of monkey imitativeness.
To a philosophic eye, the vices of the clergy are far less dangerous than their virtues.
I should venture to assert that the most pervasive fallacy of philosophic thinking goes back to neglect of context.
The well taught philosophic mind To all compassion gives; Casts round the world an equal eye, And feels for all that lives.
To reflect the entire spectrum, the dynamics of the adventure novel must be invested with a philosophic synthesis of one kind or another.
What we need in literature today are vast philosophic horizons... we need the most ultimate, the most fearsome, the most fearless "Why?" and "What next?".
The Irish are a philosophic as well as a practical race. Their first and strongest impulse is to make the best of a bad situation to put a better face on evil than it normally wears.
An attitude of philosophic doubt, of suspended judgment, is repugnant to the natural man. Belief is an independent joy to him.
Rightly viewed no meanest object is insignificant; all objects are as windows through which the philosophic eye looks into infinitude itself.
Seldom can philosophic genius be more usefully employed than in thus rescuing admitted truths from the neglect caused by the very circumstance of their universal admission.
If a philosophic theory is once ruled out of court, no one can tell when it will appear again.
That fact that Athens could condemn its noblest citizen to death did more than make a profound impression on him. It was to shape the course of his entire philosophic endeavor.
We believe that the materials and the stories taken from the raw can be finer (more real in the philosophic sense) than the acted article.
Every dogma, every philosophic or theological creed, was at its inception a statement in terms of the intellect of a certain inner experience.
There is little of the true philosophic spirit in Aquinas. He does not, like the Platonic Socrates, set out to follow wherever the argument may lead.
Empirical sciences prosecuted purely for their own sake, and without philosophic tendency are like a face without eyes.
