Philosophically Speaking Quotes

#1. Philosophically speaking, values are the termini of our intentions. We never fully achieve them.

Gordon W. Allport

#2. Philosophically speaking, shadows of people are friendlier than people themselves because they come together very easily!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#3. Remember, philosophically speaking, Americans are mongrels - practical materialists but with a dreamy streak of divine approval.

Geoffrey Wood

#4. Philosophically speaking, from the Buddhist point of view, both human beings and animals possess what in Tibetan is called shepa, which can be roughly translated as "consciousness," albeit to different degrees of complexity.

Dalai Lama XIV

#5. The cause, then, philosophically speaking, is the sum total of the conditions, positive and negative, taken together; the whole of the contingencies of every description, which being realized, the consequent invariably follows.

John Stuart Mill

#6. No one actually saw it land, which raised the interesting philosophical point: When millions of tons of angry elephant come spinning through the sky, but there is no one to hear it, does it - philosophically speaking - make a noise?

Terry Pratchett

#7. With me, writing is 60% imagination, 30% people you know and 10% you don't know where it comes from.

Terrence McNally

#8. If she remember right, people who had a God didn't seem to hold to drinking' an' beating' their women. With a little luck maybe she wouldn't have to put up with that anyway.

Janette Oke

#9. Jesus alone cleanses from sin; He only can forgive our transgressions.

Ellen G. White

#10. There are questions which illuminate, and there are those that destroy. I was always taught to ask the first kind.

Isidor Isaac Rabi

#11. That is a question you have to ask the Old Man of the Moon.

Grace Lin

#12. My '50s were different than other people's '50s. The myth didn't permeate our world, 'Donna Reed' and all that. I longed for that, I wanted to be like other normal families on TV.

Gary Ross

#13. Philosophically considered, the universe is composed of Nature and the Soul. Strictly speaking, therefore, all that is separate from us, all which Philosophy distinguishes as the 'Not Me,' that is, both nature and art, all other men and my own body, must be ranked under this name, 'Nature.'

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#14. Capitalism is a pretty brutal place.

Charlie Munger

#15. When you're off saving the world, you'll come to a point where you discover it was just yourself that needed saving.

Atle Jarnaes Leroy

#16. I want to find material that piques my interest, keeps me outside the box and challenges me.

Kyle Chandler

#17. I don't believe in luck. Like I didn't win a lot of races for awhile, and it's because I didn't put myself in position to win enough of them.

Michael Waltrip

#18. Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#19. We lose each other, will always find you

Stephenie Meyer

#20. Univision is the only network where you pay for more, not for less.

Randy Falco

#21. There are lots of actors out there who are hugely, hugely talented and haven't got the breaks I've had.

Kit Harington

#22. The fool who recognizes his foolishness, is a wise man. But the fool who believes himself a wise man, he really is a fool.

Gautama Buddha