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
There is little of the true philosophic spirit in Aquinas. He does not, like the Platonic Socrates, set out to follow wherever… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Paul Brunton's Notebooks are a veritable treasure-trove of philosophic-spiritual wisdom. — Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Copy Share Image
Poincaré [was] the last man to take practically all mathematics, pure and applied, as his province. ... Few mathematicians have had the… — Eric Temple Bell Copy Share Image
The process of philosophic and scientific enlightenment has shaken the stability of beliefs held explicitly as articles of faith. — Michael Polanyi Copy Share Image
The courage of the truth is the first condition of philosophic study. — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
The gross debaucheries and atrocious cruelties are covered with a resplendent mental veil because of the systematic exposition of the philosophic principles… — Iwan Bloch Copy Share Image
The breakdown of Plato's philosophy is made apparent in the fact that he could not trust to gradual improvements in education to… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
If when you say 'whiskey' you mean the devil's brew, the poison scourge, the bloody monster that defiles innocence, dethrones reason... then… — Noah S. Sweat 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
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
One way of saying that is that there is an objective reality beyond our mind. A way to think of this in… — Edgar Mitchell 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
That fact that Athens could condemn its noblest citizen to death did more than make a profound impression on him. It was… — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
What do you mean by faith? Is faith enough for Man? Should he be satisfied with faith alone? Is there no way… — Clifford D. Simak 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
In this book it is spoken of the Sephiroth and the Paths; of Spirits and Conjurations; of Gods, Spheres, Planes, and many… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
Any philosophic explanation of Quality is going to be both false and true precisely because it is a philosophic explanation. The process… — Robert M. Pirsig 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
I needn't tell you that success and failure prove nothing - the whole thing is a lottery. It's pleasant to succeed; but… — George Sand Copy Share Image
“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
To a philosophic eye, the vices of the clergy are far less dangerous than their virtues. — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
For the religious the holy is truth, for the philosophic the truth is holy. — Ludwig Feuerbach Copy Share Image