Philosophic Quotes
81 Philosophic quotes by 67 unique authors
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In life and art we need to make sure that we honour that which our hearts and brains tell us is good. And we should…
— Robert Genn
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I mistrust the satisfaction which makes a display of the possession of Infinity; that is called fatuity in philosophic terms.
— Edgar Quinet
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I don't think literature will be purged until its philosophic pretentiousness is extruded, and I shant live to see that purge, nor perhaps when it…
— E. M. Forster
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Seldom can philosophic genius be more usefully employed than in thus rescuing admitted truths from the neglect caused by the very circumstance of their universal…
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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The new tinge to modern minds is a vehement and passionate interest in the relation of general principles to irreducible and stubborn facts. All the…
— Alfred North Whitehead
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Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck.
— Immanuel Kant
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If we are to take for the criterion of truth the majority of suffrages, they ought to be gotten from those philosophic and patriotic citizens…
— James Madison
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Liberty is the possibility of doubting, the possibility of making a mistake, the possibility of searching and experimenting, the possibility of saying No to any…
— Ignazio Silone
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Philosophy begins in wonder. And, at the end, when philosophic thought has done its best, the wonder remains.
— Alfred North Whitehead
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Digression is the soul of wit. Take the philosophic asides away from Dante, Milton or Hamlet's father's ghost and what stays is dry bones.
— Ray Bradbury
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A detective story generally describes six living men discussing how it is that a man is dead. A modern philosophic story generally describes six dead…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Culture had worked in her own case, but during the last few weeks she had doubted whether it humanized the majority, so wide and so…
— E. M. Forster
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As a philosopher, if I were speaking to a purely philosophic audience I should say that I ought to describe myself as an Agnostic, because…
— Bertrand Russell
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In this book it is spoken of the Sephiroth and the Paths; of Spirits and Conjurations; of Gods, Spheres, Planes, and many other things which…
— Aleister Crowley
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We must make the building of a free society once more an intellectual adventure, a deed of courage.... Unless we can make the philosophic foundations…
— Friedrich August von Hayek
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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 something or I…
— Patti Smith
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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. I…
— William James
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It takes an unusually philosophic mind to accept that all one’s suffering might be to no end, really, in the larger scheme of things.
— Ian C. Esslemont
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The misconception which has haunted philosophic literature throughout the centuries is the notion of 'independent existence.' There is no such mode of existence; every entity…
— Alfred North Whitehead
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The bourgeoisie, which far surpasses the proletariat in the completeness and irreconcilibility of its class consciousness, is vitally interested in imposing its moral philosophy upon…
— Leon Trotsky
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I am convinced that when Nietzsche came to Switzerland and went insane, it was not because of venereal disease, though he did have this disease.…
— Francis Schaeffer
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This work, though it deals only with eating and drinking, which are regarded in the eyes of our supernaturalistic mock-culture as the lowest acts, is…
— Ludwig Feuerbach
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If we study Japanese art, we see a man who is undoubtedly wise, philosophic and intelligent, who spends his time doing what? He studies a…
— Vincent Van Gogh
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The philosophic spirit of inquiry may be traced to brute curiosity, and that to the habit of examining all things in search of food.
— William Winwood Reade
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We will grieve not, rather find strength in what remains behind. In the faith that looks through death, in years that bring the philosophic mind.
— John Bacon
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