Philosophic Quotes

81 quotes by 70 authors

Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature of universals, whereas those of… — Aristotle
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 legs, you've got… — Mel Brooks
Good humor is a philosophic state of mind; it seems to say to nature that we take her no more seriously than she takes us. — Ernest Renan
Rightly viewed no meanest object is insignificant; all objects are as windows through which the philosophic eye looks into infinitude itself. — Thomas Carlyle
In the philosophic sense, observation shows and experiment teaches. — Claude Bernard
Empirical sciences prosecuted purely for their own sake, and without philosophic tendency are like a face without eyes. — Arthur Schopenhauer
The great experimental principle, then, is doubt, that philosophic doubt which leaves to the mind its freedom and initiative, and from which the virtues most… — Claude Bernard
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
I shall not fear to say that the doctrine of self-interest rightly understood seems to me of all the philosophic theories the most appropriate to… — Alexis de Tocqueville
He had made a passionate study of education, only to come, gradually, to the knowledge that education is nothing but the process of building up,… — D. H. Lawrence
Democracy, thus French revolution, was not invented by philosophic theory nor by the bourgeois leadership. It was discovered by the masses in their method of… — Raya Dunayevskaya
Philosophic meditation is an accomplishment by which I attain Being and my own self, not impartial thinking which studies a subject with indifference. — Karl Jaspers
The best generals I have known were... stupid or absent-minded men. Not only does a good army commander not need any special qualities, on the… — Leo Tolstoy
A declaration of the independence of America, and the sovereignty of the United STates was drawn by the ingenious and philosophic pen of Thomas Jefferson,… — Mercy Otis Warren
Scientific and philosophic truth have parted company. — Hannah Arendt
Poets are being pursued by the philosophers today, out of the poverty of philosophy. God damn it, you might think a man had no business… — William Carlos Williams
An attitude of philosophic doubt, of suspended judgment, is repugnant to the natural man. Belief is an independent joy to him. — William Minto
I have always been a friend to hero-worship; it is the only rational one, and has always been in use amongst civilized people - the… — George Henry Borrow
Men have such a good opinion of themselves, of their mental superiority and intellectual depth; they believe themselves so skilled in discerning the true from… — Al-Ghazali
The Christian philosopher has a perfect right to the point of view and prephilosophical assumptions he brings to philosophic work; the fact that these are… — Alvin Plantinga

Who Wrote These Philosophic Quotes

70 authors contributed a total of 81 Philosophic Quotes, led by these top contributors: