Philosophic Quotes

81 Philosophic quotes by 67 unique authors

The process of philosophic and scientific enlightenment has shaken the stability of beliefs held explicitly as articles of faith. — Michael Polanyi
There is little of the true philosophic spirit in Aquinas. He does not, like the Platonic Socrates, set out to follow wherever the argument may… — Bertrand Russell
I think that fiction and, as I say, history and biography are immensely important, not only for their own sake, because they provide a picture… — Aldous Huxley
If when you say 'whiskey' you mean the devil's brew, the poison scourge, the bloody monster that defiles innocence, dethrones reason... then I am certainly… — Unknown Author
We really cannot see what equanimity there is in jerking a lacerated carp out of the water by the jaws, merely because it has no… — Leigh Hunt
So the nature required to make a really noble Guardian of our commonwealth will be swift and strong, spirited, and philosophic. — Plato
All our scientific and philosophic ideals are altars to unknown gods. — William James
Liberals think their campaign against Wal-Mart is a way of introducing the subject of class into America's political argument, and they are more correct than… — George Will
We read Charlotte Bronte not for exquisite observation of character, not for comedy, not for a philosophic view of life, but for her poetry. Probably… — Virginia Woolf
That fact that Athens could condemn its noblest citizen to death did more than make a profound impression on him. It was to shape the… — Jostein Gaarder
The third principle is that any philosophic knowledge is only valuable if it is true or if it works. — L. Ron Hubbard
Whoever accepts the higher mission of art and comes nearer and nearer to it through his creative activity, will then go on from art to… — Paul Brunton
In years that bring the philosophic mind. — William Wordsworth
What do you mean by faith? Is faith enough for Man? Should he be satisfied with faith alone? Is there no way of finding out… — Clifford D. Simak
Thus you may multiply each stone 4 times & no more for they will then become oyles shining in ye dark and fit for magicall… — Isaac Newton
Modern Existentialism... is a total European creation, perhaps the last philosophic legacy of Europe to America or whatever other civilization is now on its way… — William Barrett
The courage of the truth is the first condition of philosophic study. — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
We may say that hysteria is a caricature of an artistic creation, a compulsion neurosis a caricature of a religion, and a paranoiac delusion a… — Sigmund Freud
Monotheism owes its existence not to philosophic speculation about the nature of reality or knowledge or virtue, but to acceptance of reality identified with a… — Israel Shenker
... clothes sometimes gave one more of a lift than any philosophic comforting. — Erich Maria Remarque
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… — George Henry Borrow
To despise riches, may, indeed, be philosophic, but to dispense them worthily, must surely be more beneficial to mankind. — Fanny Burney
[Kepler] had to realize clearly that logical-mathematical theoretizing, no matter how lucid, could not guarantee truth by itself; that the most beautiful logical theory means… — Albert Einstein
Humanism . . . is not a single hypothesis or theorem, and it dwells on no new facts. It is rather a slow shifting in… — William James
To a philosophic eye, the vices of the clergy are far less dangerous than their virtues. — Edward Gibbon

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