Philosophic Quotes
81 quotes by 70 authors
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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
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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
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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
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Rightly viewed no meanest object is insignificant; all objects are as windows through which the philosophic eye looks into infinitude itself.
— Thomas Carlyle
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In the philosophic sense, observation shows and experiment teaches.
— Claude Bernard
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Empirical sciences prosecuted purely for their own sake, and without philosophic tendency are like a face without eyes.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Scientific and philosophic truth have parted company.
— Hannah Arendt
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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
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An attitude of philosophic doubt, of suspended judgment, is repugnant to the natural man. Belief is an independent joy to him.
— William Minto
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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
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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
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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
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