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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…
- The Germans are the most philosophic people in the world, and the greatest smokers: now I trace their philosophy to their smoking. Smoking has a…
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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,… — 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… — Mel Brooks
- Good humor is a philosophic state of mind; it seems to say to nature that we take her no more seriously than… — 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… — 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… — 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… — 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… — Unknown Author
- Philosophic meditation is an accomplishment by which I attain Being and my own self, not impartial thinking which studies a subject with… — Karl Jaspers