Quotes About Philosophical

#1. Ask yourself your own questions and go after what might answer them. Before life, you must maintain a philosophical and scientific stance. Always.

Camilo Gomes Jr.

#2. Democracy should always be viewed with a philosophical perspective rather than a political one, because after all democracy was born to a philosopher and murdered by a politician.

Aysha Taryam

#3. When considering the topic of spirituality or religion, I would encourage you to look at Christianity first. It is a testable religion. That is, it is based on evidence. The evidence is philosophical and historical. It can be examined and then we can all make our decision.

Jon Morrison

#4. Philosophical systems are wholly true for their founders only.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#5. I liked this about Drew: always to the point when talking about business, but always philosophical when talking about life. Attending his birthday party had been a priority since I met him four years ago

Penny Reid

#6. For this reason poetry is something more philosophical and more worthy of serious attention than history.

Aristotle.

#7. There was a big difference between Ron Paul and me when it came to the 'no.' His 'no' was philosophical. It was reasoned. It was right. My 'no' actually put a stop to legislation. It cut spending. Mine carried further than just no.

Gary Johnson

#8. It seemed to me that the real philosophical breakthroughs of the 20th century were in terms of the understanding of language. What is language? Where does it come from, how does it work, what does it do?

Hanif Kureishi

#9. We are led into philosophical confusion, thought Wittgenstein, by seeking explanations at times when we should instead simply stop and say, "This is how things are.

Carl Elliott

#10. There is no reasonable doubt that existentialism will soon become the predominant philosophical current among bourgeois intellectuals. (1949)

Gyorgy Lukacs

#11. I am a forward-looking girl and don't stay where I am. "Left right, Be bright," as I said in my poem. That's on days when I am one big bounce, and have to go careful then not to be a nuisance. But later I get back to my own philosophical outlook that keeps us all kissable.

Stevie Smith

#12. Even the most heartening of philosophical vistas is no match for, say, a toothache, if it happens to be your own.

Roger Zelazny

#13. Now to the term 'relativity theory.' I admit that it is unfortunate, and has given occasion to philosophical misunderstandings.

Albert Einstein

#14. True literature is more than just a story someone has told. It must provide the reader with the essence of the world on a moral, philosophical and emotional level.

Orhan Pamuk

#15. A lot of people see doubt as legitimate philosophical posture. They think of themselves in the middle, whereas of course really, they're nowhere.

John Le Carre

#16. Newton, Pascal, Bossuet, Racine, F?nelon
that is to say, some of the most enlightened men on earth, in the most philosophical of all ages
have been believers in Jesus Christ; and the great Cond?, when dying, repeated these noble words, "Yes, I shall see God as He is, face to face!".

Luc De Clapiers

#17. I don't get philosophical. Love fish. Love sharks. Keep the water and their habitats as clean and protected as possible

Eugenie Clark

#18. In unphilosophical minds any rare or unexpected thing excites wonder, while in philosophical minds the familiar excites wonder also.

George Santayana

#19. Semiotics is a general theory of all existing languages ... all forms of communication - visual, tactile, and so on ... There is general semiotics, which is a philosophical approach to this field, and then there are many specific semiotics.

Umberto Eco

#20. Happiness lies outside yourself, is achieved through interacting with others. Self-forgetfulness should be one's goal, not self-absorption. The male, capable of only the latter, makes a virtue of an irremediable fault and sets up self-absorption, not only as a good but as a Philosophical Good.

Valerie Solanas

#21. Trust is a more complex philosophical issue than the average layperson can understand.

Patrick Weekes

#22. It was less a literary thing than a linguistic, philosophical preoccupation ... discovering how far you can go with language to create immediate, elementary experience.

Robert Morgan

#23. It is possible to construct small realities that contain political or philosophical responses, not necessarily just practical or economical responses.

Jimenez Lai

#24. Religious and philosophical beliefs are, indeed, as dangerous as fire, and nothing can take from them that beauty of danger. But there is only one way of really guarding ourselves against the excessive danger of them, and that is to be steeped in philosophy and soaked in religion.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

#25. There is often more spiritual force in a proverb than in whole philosophical systems.

Thomas Carlyle

#26. It's easy tae be philosophical when some other cunt's got shite fir blood.

Irvine Welsh

#27. 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

#28. Klosterman's Razor: the philosophical belief that the best hypothesis is the one that reflexively accepts its potential wrongness to begin with. _

Chuck Klosterman

#29. 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

#30. Philosophical involvement blinded me to authentic human fact.

Philip K. Dick

#31. The philosophical spirit is not satisfied to simply accept what it is told, no matter how much prestige the teller seems to have. This is true even if the teller is a god.

Brendan Myers

#32. When most people turn on their TVs, they don't expect a frank discussion of philosophical ideas in their practical context. Or any context.

David O. Russell

#33. Angling is tightly woven in a fabric of moral, social, and philosophical threads which are not easily rent by the violent climate of our times.

A.J. McClane

#34. We come to recognize that playfulness, as a philosophical stance, can be very serious indeed; and moreover, that it possesses an unfailing capacity to arouse ridicule and hostility in those among us who crave certainty, reverence, and restraint.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#35. The work with which we embark on this first volume of a series of theological studies is a work with which the philosophical person does not begin, but rather concludes.

Hans Urs Von Balthasar

#36. I renounce all love except pure philosophical love. The so-called love of human animals removes people two by two from the only possibility of happiness, which is the communion of beautiful souls.

Tom Stoppard

#37. Plutarch's peers were writing "rhetorics," which were these dry philosophical treatises that made really broad gestures about life and death and fate. Plutarch stepped out of the stream to create an essayistic form that relied on a digressive structure and down to earth anecdotes.

John D'Agata

#38. I don't desire to change anything in England except the weather, I am quite content with philosophical contemplation.

Oscar Wilde

#39. If we cannot justify the very concept of the aesthetic, except as ideology, then aesthetic judgement is without philosophical foundation. An 'ideology' is adopted for its social or political utility, rather than its truth. And

Roger Scruton

#40. Have some faith."
"Between faith and distrust, which one is more likely to keep you alive?"
"And which one is more likely to let you experience living?"
I threw up my hands. "Why is everything so philosophical with you?"
He shrugged. "I like thinking.

Roshani Chokshi

#41. I am not going to answer any questions as to my association, my philosophical or religious beliefs or my political beliefs, or how I voted in any election, or any of these private affairs.

Pete Seeger

#42. But I want to make sure of our whereabouts and whenabouts,' said Van. 'It is a philosophical need.

Vladimir Nabokov

#43. Wrangling about precisely what constitutes genuine philosophy, proper philosophical practice, method, and aims is an important part of modern philosophy's content and heritage

Gregory B. Sadler

#44. Godshawk looked surprised, the way that people generally do when you ask them philosophical questions in shrubberies in the middle of the night.

Philip Reeve

#45. A set of excellent questions themselves is perhaps like a poem, both philosophical and intellectual.

Pearl Zhu

#46. The philosophical conservative is someone willing to pay the price of other people s suffering for his principles.

E.L. Doctorow

#47. I'd given him bits and pieces of my peculiar life, but colored softer and funnier than they had been. I'd painted my dad as Don Quixote in a semi, on a quest for philosophical truths and the best cup of coffee in the nation.

Laurie Halse Anderson

#48. We employ our personality, what we know, think, and believe, in order to interpret the world, making self-understanding a critical act because it establishes the baseline for our philosophical and intellectual approach towards life.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#49. There is a class, moreover, by whom all these scientific theories, and more are held as ascertained facts, and as the basis of philosophical inferences which strike at the root of theistic beliefs.

Asa Gray

#50. That's a stupid question,' said Malachi. 'Because he didn't warn him. He didn't warn anyone.'
'No, it's a philosophical question,' Kearns corrected him. 'Which makes it useless, not stupid.

Rick Yancey

#51. I take on a philosophical and postmodernist approach to the art-making process, investigating problems on a personal and intuitive level. This process is what fuels my mind and informs me, raises new questions, and gives my work resonance.

Michael Bell

#52. The chief philosophical value of physics is that it gives the mind something distinct to lay hold of, which, if you don't, Nature at once tells you you are wrong.

James Clerk Maxwell

#53. The intelligentsia ... was kept busy embroidering white stitches on the philosophical and ecclesiastical vestments of the bourgeoisie - that old and filthy fabric besmeared with the blood of toiling masses.

Maxim Gorky

#54. Live. If you live, God will live with you. If you refuse to run his risks, he'll retreat to that distant heaven and be merely a subject for philosophical speculation. Everyone knows this, but no one takes the first step, perhaps for fear of being called insane.

Paulo Coelho

#55. The philosophical I is not the man, not the human body or the human soul of which psychology treats, but the metaphysical subject, the limit - not a part of the world.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

#56. Creationists often appeal to the facts of science to support their view, and evolutionists often appeal to philosophical assumptions from outside science.

Jonathan Sarfati

#57. Europe, in legend, has always been the home of subtle philosophical discussion; America was the land of grubby pragmatism.

Daniel Bell

#58. The answers lie in not just hard science or philosophical rhetoric but in experiments of the imagination as well. Human perspective must be re-examined through an almost whimsical fount of imagination of species, magic, and clear creative thinking.

Leviak B. Kelly

#59. Not even on the most distorted and contracted theory of good which ever was framed by religious or philosophical fanaticism, can the government of Nature be made to resemble the work of a being at once good and omnipotent.

John Stuart Mill

#60. It is an author's primary duty to entertain. Sling out all the philosophical terms, but keep the reader turning the page.

Susan Howatch

#61. We shall be compelled to renounce the hope of finding philosophical proofs of religious beliefs ... Hence, once more, the value of philosophy must not depend upon any supposed body of definitely ascertainable knowledge to be acquired by those who study it.

Bertrand Russell

#62. Jacques Tati is the great philosophical tinkerer of comedy, taking meticulous care to arrange his films so that they unfold in a series of revelations and effortless delights.

Roger Ebert

#63. To the extent that philosophical positions both confuse us and close doors to further inquiry, they are likely to be wrong.

E. O. Wilson

#64. The great novelists are philosophical novelists
that is, the contrary of thesis-writers.

Albert Camus

#65. Completing the circle is both philosophical and tactical - there is a growing sense of mastery that comes with practice, diligence, and experience.

Eric Mann

#66. The universe is a philosophical abyss.

Kedar Joshi

#67. When I experienced altered states of consciousness, my whole philosophical structure crumbled, and that terrified me. And what scared me the most was the realisation that death was not the end!

Susan Schneider

#68. A suspicion that lightness is not deeply serious (but instead whimsical) pervades aesthetic discourse. But what if lightness is a philosophical choice to temper reality with strangeness, to temper the intellect with emotion, and to temper emotion with humor.

Sarah Ruhl

#69. It is harder to be philosophical when you are young.

Eleanor Roosevelt

#70. Losing love is so rich a philosophical ordeal that it makes a hairdresser into a rival of Socrates.

Emile M. Cioran

#71. Occam's razor, the philosophical basis of all science: assume the simplest natural cause. That answer might turn out not to be correct, but we should not resort to more complex reasoning unless it is shown to be necessary.

Nick Lane

#72. The world's a mean place. It's unfair, then it's fair. It's hateful, then it's loving. It's a very peculiar place on philosophical and metaphysical and religious levels.

Tim Allen

#73. Almost all arguments for skepticism make reference to seemingly ridiculous possibilities - we are being deceived by an evil demon, life is just a dream, we are brains in vats. You might propose psychoanalysis, rather than philosophical reflection, for anyone who worries about these possibilities.

Richard Feldman

#74. For modern science, at least from a philosophical point of view, the critical divide seems to be between inanimate matter and the origin of living organisms, while for Buddhism the critical divide is between non-sentient matter and the emergence of sentient beings.

Dalai Lama XIV

#75. It is always incorrect to assume you can know what someone's moral convictions are based on their philosophical theories.

Stanley Fish

#76. Designing posters, for me, is not only a commercial pursuit but also a philosophical endeavor.

Fang Chen

#77. Not too many people in cocktail parties are aware of Bioprinting and growing organs, or the coming technological singularity; I've seen very little philosophical speculation about how far we can go, how much we could achieve.

Jason Silva

#78. I do, in fact, have a book club. I meet with a couple of guys once a month of a lunchtime discussion of some interesting text, usually, but not always, philosophical.

David Liss

#79. Philosophical concepts nurtured in the stillness of a professor's study could destroy a civilization ... but if professors can truly wield this fatal power, may it not be that only other professors, or, at least, other thinkers can alone disarm them?

Isaiah Berlin

#80. After a long analysis of Robson's suicide, we concluded that it could only be considered philosophical in an arithmetical sense of the term: he, being about to cause an increase of one in the human population, had decided it was his ethical duty to keep the planet's numbers constant.

Julian Barnes

#81. Science was born as a result and consequence of philosophy; it cannot survive without a philosophical base. If philosophy perishes, science will be next to go.

Ayn Rand

#82. 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.

Julian Baggini

#83. Poverty continues to exist. Its appearance seems to be relentless in evidencing itself not only to all the things we experience here in America, but certainly what we see globally. And I don't see anywhere any philosophical analysis that suggests we know how to get out of this.

Harry Belafonte

#84. I don't think that everyone should have a philosophical answer to any given question. There are things that need to be done.

Aleksandar Hemon

#85. If a philosophical writer cannot be followed, the difficulty of his subject can be placed only in mitigation of his offense, not in condonation of it. There are too many expert witnesses on the other side.

William Zinsser

#86. On a small scale, person-to-person, Jesus encountered the kinds of suffering common to all of us. And how did he respond? Avoiding philosophical theories and theological lessons, he reached out with healing and compassion. He forgave sin, healed the afflicted, cast out evil, and even overcame death.

Philip Yancey

#87. Bouldering isn't really a sport. It's a climbing activity with metaphysical, mystical, and philosophical overtones. -John Gill-

Jon Krakauer

#88. 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

#89. I love my country very dearly, and I greatly resent the implication that some of the places that I have sung and some of the people that I have known, and some of my opinions, whether they are religious or philosophical, make me less of an American.

Pete Seeger

#90. When you're young you try to be methodical and philosophical, but reality keeps breaking in.

Randall Jarrell

#91. I can't do it. I can't get into a philosophical debate with an archangel, knowing how ridiculous it is and how unprepared I am.

T.J. Klune

#92. Maximoff." His deep voice pitches me from a fantasy.
I lift my eyes.
He smiles.
"What?" I combat.
Farrow bends a knee. "Are you thinking about the philosophical meaning of the world or are you thinking about fucking me in the ass?

Krista Ritchie

#93. It is necessary to understand that Black Power is a cry of disappointment. The Black Power slogan did not spring full grown from the head of some philosophical Zeus. It was born from the wounds of despair and disappointment. It is a cry of daily hurt and persistent pain.

Martin Luther

#94. I don't want to be overly philosophical, but I think there are things you earn for yourself as you go.

Tift Merritt

#95. People are deeply imbedded in philosophical, i.e., grammatical confusions. And to free them presupposes pulling them out of the immensely manifold connections they are caught up in.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

#96. 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.

Jean Shepherd

#97. Give a small number of people the power to enrich themselves beyond everyone's wildest dreams, a philosophical rationale to explain all the damage they're causing, and they will not stop until they've run the world economy off a cliff.

Philipp Meyer

#98. I always see that there's a - from a philosophical point of view - there's the appearance of things that everybody wants you to think is happening, then there's the reality underneath it.

Larry Bishop

#99. The winding down of summer puts me in a heavy philosophical mood.

Robert Fulghum

#100. You have to put aside your ideology. Howsoever beautiful it looks, howsoever systematic it looks, howsoever philosophical you have made and decorated it, you have to put it aside and see within. That's the whole method of meditation, awareness, watchfulness.

Rajneesh