“The kind Apollo (ho phílos)," he says, "seems to heal the questions of life, and to resolve them, by the rules he… — T.R. Glover Copy Share Image
Science, like art, religion, political theory, or psychoanalysis - is work that holds out the promise of philosophic understanding, excites in us… — Vivian Gornick Copy Share Image
We really cannot see what equanimity there is in jerking a lacerated carp out of the water by the jaws, merely because… — Leigh Hunt Copy Share Image
“The philosophic outlook rises above all sectarian controversy. It finds its own position not only by appreciating and synthesizing what is solidly… — Paul Brunton 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
Democracy, thus French revolution, was not invented by philosophic theory nor by the bourgeois leadership. It was discovered by the masses in… — Raya Dunayevskaya Copy Share Image
The philosophic mind inclines always to an elaborate life--the life of Goethe or of Leonardo da Vinci; but the life of the… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
Poets are being pursued by the philosophers today, out of the poverty of philosophy. God damn it, you might think a man… — William Carlos Williams Copy Share Image
Imagine, capitalist America also divides the anarchists into two categories, philosophic and criminal. The first are accepted in highest circles; one of… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
In recognizing that words have power to define and to compel, the semanticists are actually testifying to the philosophic quality of language… — Richard M. Weaver Copy Share Image
Philo of Alexandria introduced in the first century what has been described as the 'Hellenizing of the Old Testament,' or the allegorical… — Philo Copy Share Image
But there are still many who continue to marvel at the wisdom of God in so planning the universe that big rivers… — Chapman Cohen Copy Share Image
“Philosophic thoughts allow people to use human reason and imagination to consider eternal matters and explore the ramifications of their own transience.… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
There will be some fundamental assumptions which adherents of all the variant systems within the epoch unconsciously presuppose. Such assumptions appear so… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Atheism ... in its philosophic aspect refuses allegiance not merely to a definite concept of God, but it refuses all servitude to… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
The philosopher ... subjects experience to his critical judgment, and this contains a value judgment namely, that freedom from toil is preferable… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
If freedom is to flourish the philosophic foundations of a free society must be kept a living intellectual issue and its implementation… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
A detective story generally describes six living men discussing how it is that a man is dead. A modern philosophic story generally… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
As the highly colored birds do not fly around in the dull, leaden plains of a sandy desert, but amid all the… — David Swing Copy Share Image
No book has yet been written in praise of a woman who let her husband and children starve or suffer while she… — Anna Garlin Spencer 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
Consequently, the first thing to be done in any search after philosophic principles is to travel over the special sciences with a… — Hugh Elliot Copy Share Image
Seldom can philosophic genius be more usefully employed than in thus rescuing admitted truths from the neglect caused by the very circumstance… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
A declaration of the independence of America, and the sovereignty of the United STates was drawn by the ingenious and philosophic pen… — Mercy Otis Warren Copy Share Image
Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature of universals,… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The Germans are the most philosophic people in the world, and the greatest smokers: now I trace their philosophy to their smoking.… — George Henry Borrow Copy Share Image
The great experimental principle, then, is doubt, that philosophic doubt which leaves to the mind its freedom and initiative, and from which… — Claude Bernard Copy Share Image
Men have such a good opinion of themselves, of their mental superiority and intellectual depth; they believe themselves so skilled in discerning… — Al-Ghazali Copy Share Image
Humanism . . . is not a single hypothesis or theorem, and it dwells on no new facts. It is rather a… — William James Copy Share Image
If we are to take for the criterion of truth the majority of suffrages, they ought to be gotten from those philosophic… — James Madison Copy Share Image
The philosophic spirit of inquiry may be traced to brute curiosity, and that to the habit of examining all things in search… — William Winwood Reade Copy Share Image
'Truth Will Set U Free' is about honesty. My philosophic belief that ultimately being true to yourself is liberating, with every individual's… — Corey Hart Copy Share Image
Systems, scientific or philosophic, come and go. Each method of limited understanding is at length exhausted. In its prime each system is… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
I know that there are many persons to whom it seems derogatory to link a body of philosophic ideas to the social… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
I don't like answering to other people's philosophies. I don't have any philosophy, I just believe in stuff. Either I believe in… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
I think that fiction and, as I say, history and biography are immensely important, not only for their own sake, because they… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Recognition of the modes of existence of technical objects must be the result of philosophic consideration; what philosophy has to achieve in… — Gilbert Simondon Copy Share Image
The absolute things, the last things, the overlapping things, are the truly philosophic concerns; all superior minds feel seriously about them, and… — William James Copy Share Image
Culture had worked in her own case, but during the last few weeks she had doubted whether it humanized the majority, so… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We may say that hysteria is a caricature of an artistic creation, a compulsion neurosis a caricature of a religion, and a… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
