“Death would not surprise us as often as it does, if we let go of the misbelief that newborns are less mortal… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
If we study Japanese art, we see a man who is undoubtedly wise, philosophic and intelligent, who spends his time doing what?… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
Philosophy begins in wonder. And, at the end, when philosophic thought has done its best, the wonder remains. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
An attitude of philosophic doubt, of suspended judgment, is repugnant to the natural man. Belief is an independent joy to him. — William Minto Copy Share Image
“To despise riches, may, indeed, be philosophic, but to dispense them worthily, surely, must be more beneficial to mankind.” — Frances Burney Copy Share Image
Empirical sciences prosecuted purely for their own sake, and without philosophic tendency are like a face without eyes. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
The third principle is that any philosophic knowledge is only valuable if it is true or if it works. — L. Ron Hubbard Copy Share Image
I mistrust the satisfaction which makes a display of the possession of Infinity; that is called fatuity in philosophic terms. — Edgar Quinet Copy Share Image
Both Brutus and Hamlet are highly intellectual by nature and reflective by habit. Both may even be called, in a popular sense,… — Andrew Coyle Bradley Copy Share Image
I started to call myself a "rational therapist" in January 1955; later I used the term "rational emotive." Now I call myself… — Albert Ellis Copy Share Image
“To reach him you have to back up and back up, and the further back you go, the further back you see… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
Look, I don't want to wax philosophic, but I will say that if you're alive you've got to flap your arms and… — Mel Brooks Copy Share Image
In this real world of sweat and dirt, it seems to me that when a view of things is 'noble,' that ought… — William James Copy Share Image
I sing, not arms and the hero, but the philosophic man: he who seeks in contemplation to discover the inner will of… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
I am convinced that when Nietzsche came to Switzerland and went insane, it was not because of venereal disease, though he did… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I have always been a friend to hero-worship; it is the only rational one, and has always been in use amongst civilized… — George Henry Borrow Copy Share Image
We read Charlotte Bronte not for exquisite observation of character, not for comedy, not for a philosophic view of life, but for… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Whoever accepts the higher mission of art and comes nearer and nearer to it through his creative activity, will then go on… — Paul Brunton Copy Share Image
“He was his usual philosophic self and tried very hard to explain to me that although life was stained with agony, this… — Lyall Watson Copy Share Image
As a philosopher, if I were speaking to a purely philosophic audience I should say that I ought to describe myself as… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
In a very philosophic sense I think doing the work is itself a good thing. But at the end of the day,… — Edward Norton Copy Share Image
We must make the building of a free society once more an intellectual adventure, a deed of courage… Unless we can make… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
At the classical origins of philosophic thought, the transcending concepts remained committed to the prevailing separation between intellectual and manual labor to… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
Any person of any philosophic persuasion who sits on a hot stove will verify without any intellectual argument whatsoever that he is… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
“As far as I am concerned, philosophic questioning is just as likely to make you confused and depressed as it is to… — Christopher Paolini Copy Share Image
To despise riches, may, indeed, be philosophic, but to dispense them worthily, must surely be more beneficial to mankind. — Fanny Burney Copy Share Image
Rightly viewed no meanest object is insignificant; all objects are as windows through which the philosophic eye looks into infinitude itself. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Modern Americans travel light, with little philosophic baggage other than a fervent belief in their right to the pursuit of happiness. — George Will Copy Share Image
Good humor is a philosophic state of mind; it seems to say to nature that we take her no more seriously than… — Ernest Renan Copy Share Image
So the nature required to make a really noble Guardian of our commonwealth will be swift and strong, spirited, and philosophic. — Plato Copy Share Image
The mysteries of Nature and of humanity are not lessened, but increased, by the discoveries of philosophic skill. — Thomas Noon Talfourd Copy Share Image
Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck. — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
I should venture to assert that the most pervasive fallacy of philosophic thinking goes back to neglect of context. — John Dewey Copy Share Image
The well taught philosophic mind To all compassion gives; Casts round the world an equal eye, And feels for all that lives. — Anna Letitia Barbauld Copy Share Image
Philosophic meditation is an accomplishment by which I attain Being and my own self, not impartial thinking which studies a subject with… — Karl Jaspers Copy Share Image
If a philosophic theory is once ruled out of court, no one can tell when it will appear again. — Morris Raphael Cohen Copy Share Image
We will grieve not, rather find strength in what remains behind. In the faith that looks through death, in years that bring… — John Bacon Copy Share Image
To a philosophic eye, the vices of the clergy are far less dangerous than their virtues. — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
When philosophic reason is clear and certain by intuition or necessary induction, no subsequent revelation supported by prophecies or miracles can supersede… — John Adams Copy Share Image
“Life is going to beat you up, it wouldn't be fair if you didn't throw some punches back at it” — Bradley Bowman Copy Share Image
