Philosophic Quotes

... clothes sometimes gave one more of a lift than any philosophic comforting.

— Erich Maria Remarque

In the faith that looks through death, In years that bring the philosophic mind.

— William Wordsworth

“He was at the stage of a meal when one becomes philosophic.”

— Agatha Christie

In years that bring the philosophic mind.

— William Wordsworth

The courage of the truth is the first condition of philosophic study.

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Nothing is more vain than to seek to unite men by a philosophic minimum.

— Jacques Maritain

Scientific and philosophic truth have parted company.

— Hannah Arendt

All our scientific and philosophic ideals are altars to unknown gods.

— William James

If a philosophic theory is once ruled out of court, no one can tell when it will appear again.

— Morris Raphael Cohen

When philosophic reason is clear and certain by intuition or necessary induction, no subsequent revelation supported by prophecies or miracles can supersede…

— John Adams

“Life is going to beat you up, it wouldn't be fair if you didn't throw some punches back at it”

— Bradley Bowman

To a philosophic eye, the vices of the clergy are far less dangerous than their virtues.

— Edward Gibbon

We will grieve not, rather find strength in what remains behind. In the faith that looks through death, in years that bring…

— John Bacon

Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck.

— Immanuel Kant

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

Philosophic meditation is an accomplishment by which I attain Being and my own self, not impartial thinking which studies a subject with…

— Karl Jaspers

Modern Existentialism... is a total European creation, perhaps the last philosophic legacy of Europe to America or whatever other civilization is now…

— William Barrett

It was also Hegel who established the view that the different philosophic systems that we find in history are to be comprehended…

— Walter Kaufmann

[Kepler] had to realize clearly that logical-mathematical theoretizing, no matter how lucid, could not guarantee truth by itself; that the most beautiful…

— Albert Einstein

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

In life and art we need to make sure that we honour that which our hearts and brains tell us is good.…

— Robert Genn

The Christian philosopher has a perfect right to the point of view and prephilosophical assumptions he brings to philosophic work; the fact…

— Alvin Plantinga

Philosophic argument, especially that drawn from the vastness of the universe, in comparison with the apparent insignificance of this globe, has sometimes…

— Daniel Webster

The efficacy of religion lies precisely in what is not rational, philosophic, nor eternal; its efficacy lies in the unforeseen, the miraculous,…

— Henri Frederic Amiel

But how shall we excuse the supine inattention of the Pagan and philosophic world to those evidences which were presented by the…

— Edward Gibbon

We read Charlotte Bronte not for exquisite observation of character - her characters are vigorous and elementary; not for comedy - hers…

— Virginia Woolf

If you study Japanese art you see a man who is undoubtedly wise, philosophic and intelligent, who spends his time how? In…

— Vincent Van Gogh

In this book it is spoken of the Sephiroth and the Paths; of Spirits and Conjurations; of Gods, Spheres, Planes, and many…

— Aleister Crowley

Liberals think their campaign against Wal-Mart is a way of introducing the subject of class into America's political argument, and they are…

— George Will

I shall not fear to say that the doctrine of self-interest rightly understood seems to me of all the philosophic theories the…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

“Life is fundamentally a mental state. We live in a dream world that we create. Whose life is truer, the rational man…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

The new tinge to modern minds is a vehement and passionate interest in the relation of general principles to irreducible and stubborn…

— Alfred North Whitehead

“There is a widespread philosophical tendency towards the view which tells us that Man is the measure of all things, that truth…

— Bertrand Russell

In the philosophic sense, observation shows and experiment teaches.

— Claude Bernard

For the religious the holy is truth, for the philosophic the truth is holy.

— Ludwig Feuerbach

I should venture to assert that the most pervasive fallacy of philosophic thinking goes back to neglect of context.

— John Dewey

Modern Americans travel light, with little philosophic baggage other than a fervent belief in their right to the pursuit of happiness.

— George Will

Rightly viewed no meanest object is insignificant; all objects are as windows through which the philosophic eye looks into infinitude itself.

— Thomas Carlyle

The mysteries of Nature and of humanity are not lessened, but increased, by the discoveries of philosophic skill.

— Thomas Noon Talfourd

So the nature required to make a really noble Guardian of our commonwealth will be swift and strong, spirited, and philosophic.

— Plato