Philosophical Quotes
I can't pretend that I'm a great student of the art of comedy because anybody that becomes philosophical about humor doesn't know what he's talking about.
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.
In all my years of New York cab riding I have yet to find the colorful, philosophical cabdriver that keeps popping up on the late movies.
It is possible to construct small realities that contain political or philosophical responses, not necessarily just practical or economical responses.
The reality of having a kid involves day-to-day practicality - not broader philosophical outlooks.
Without the English, reason and philosophy would still be in the most despicable infancy in France.
The moment philosophy supposes it can find a final and comprehensive solution, it ceases to be inquiry and becomes either apologetics or propaganda.
If I am not pleased with myself, but should wish to be other than I am, why should I think highly of the influences which have made me what I am?
In practice a photographer does not concern himself with philosophical issues while working; he makes photographs, working with subject matter that he thinks will make the pictures.
On your 60th, here's something philosophical To give the old grey matter a stir How old would you be If you didn't know how old you were?
Metaphysics is the clearing house for all fundamental philosophical problems.
It is by no means certain that we advance our philosophical quest by reading Plato or Aristotle. It may increase our knowledge of history but not of the world.
Let me put it more precisely: The ability to give birth is a natural characteristic. In the same way, everybody can grasp philosophical truths if they just use their innate reason.
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.
I don't feel proprietorial about the problems of philosophy. History has taught us that many philosophical issues can grow up, leave home and live elsewhere.
With respect to ingenious subconsciousness, I think, philosophers might well rival poets.
Without poetry, religion becomes obscure, false, and malignant; without philosophy, licentious in all wantonness, and lascivious to the point of self-castration.
Philosophy still moves too much straight ahead, and is not yet cyclical enough.
Poetry and philosophy are, according to how you take them, different spheres, different forms, or factors of religion. Try to really combine both, and you will have nothing but religion.
Every philosophical review ought to be a philosophy of reviews at the same time.
I am philosophical Christ; crucified on the cross of ignorance for the sake of divine vanity.
Like any dealer he was watching for the card that is so high and wild he'll never need to deal another. He was just some Joseph looking for a manger.
Judge not according to the orthodox standard of a system religious, philosophical, political, but according as things promote, or fail to promote the delicacy, integrity, and authority of Conscience.
A main cause of philosophical disease-an unbalanced diet: one nourishes one's thinking with only one kind of example.
There is not a philosophical method, though there are indeed methods, like different therapies.
One can defend common sense against the attacks of philosophers only by solving their puzzles, i.e., by curing them of the temptation to attack common sense.
It is possible--indeed possible even according to the old conception of logic--to give in advance a description of all 'true' logical propositions. Hence there can never be surprises in logic.
Though philosophical Hinduism has no other god but God, it cannot be denied that practical Hinduism is not so emphatically uncompromising as Islam.
I believe that a psychological, cultural, and philosophical migration back to Africa will solve our problem.
If a spectator with a philosophical mind, somebody accustomed to reading books, gets the same kind of information in a movie, he might not fully understand it.
I didn't trust adults because I thought they were all kind of corrupted. I thought children were pure and innocent, and that was inherently better. I guess I was a philosophical child.
Laws should be interpreted in a liberal sense so that their intention may be preserved.
I am to cover the philosophical side of the debate and so far my only thought is that reading keeps you from going gaga.
Against classical philosophy: thinking about eternity or the immensity of the universe does not lessen my unhappiness.
Death itself is a natural occurrence, it is unavoidable, and the Stoics thought that part of philosophical practice is to get comfortable with the unavoidable, learning to face it with courage.
