Philosophical Quotes

1598 Philosophical quotes by 584 unique authors

Aristotle said time is a measure of change, and this movie is about changing in time, through time, while remaining the same person. That's a… — Robert McKee
The fundamental question for the United States is how it can cooperate to help meet the basic needs of the people of the hemisphere despite… — Nelson Rockefeller
I've taken a philosophical position on e-mail. Although I think it's a wonderful communication technology, and it has a lot of good uses, it is… — Alan Lightman
I'm very educated and can give you somewhat of a vocabulary, but I don't get to the philosophical side. — Shaquille O'Neal
I don't feel proprietorial about the problems of philosophy. History has taught us that many philosophical issues can grow up, leave home and live elsewhere. — Julian Baggini
Young children are naturally so philosophical. They ask: 'What is real? What is truth?' They have to learn it; they don't automatically know it. To… — Sharon Creech
Intelligent design is a modest position theologically and philosophically. It attributes the complexity and diversity of life to intelligence, but does not identify that intelligence… — William A. Dembski
If a specific question has meaning, it must be possible to find operations by which an answer may be given to it ... I believe… — Percy Williams Bridgman
The doctrine called Philosophical Necessity is simply this: that, given the motives which are present to an individual's mind, and given likewise the character and… — John Stuart Mill
Common sense is not something rigid and stationary, but is in continuous transformation, becoming enriched with scientific notions and philosophical opinions that have entered into… — Antonio Gramsci
Thinking in terms of risk certainly has its unsettling aspects (...), but it is also a means of seeking to stabilise outcomes, a mode of… — Anthony Giddens
The argument about zoning and the presidency of Nigeria is like the philosophical argument of the egg or the hen. Who is older through the… — Goodluck Jonathan
Evolutionary naturalism takes the inherent limitations of science and turns them into a devastating philosophical weapon: because science is our only real way of knowing… — Phillip E. Johnson
To philosophical materialists God is no more than an idea in the human mind, and not a very important idea. — Phillip E. Johnson
I'm interested in philosophical psychology, people like Nietzsche, Freud, Alcan, Foucault, Derrida. — Hanif Kureishi
It seemed to me that the real philosophical breakthroughs of the 20th century were in terms of the understanding of language. What is language? Where… — Hanif Kureishi
Teaching Plato in Palestine shows how philosophical thinking can illuminate important topics-in particular, the problem of finding ways to engage people with opposed ideologies in… — Gary Gutting
In every page of David Hume, there is more to be learned than from Hegel's, Herbart's and Schleiermacher's complete philosophical works. — Arthur Schopenhauer
On a small scale, person-to-person, Jesus encountered the kinds of suffering common to all of us. And how did he respond? Avoiding philosophical theories and… — Philip Yancey
I can't pretend that I'm a great student of the art of comedy because anybody that becomes philosophical about humour doesn't know what he's talking… — Jackie Mason
Is the ground a philosophical concept? Has mind a relationship to the ground? Is it an idea to be investigated? Is the ground put together… — Jiddu Krishnamurti
Every noble action is selfish. Some selfish actions are nobler than others. But they are all selfish. And as such there can be no action… — Kedar Joshi
God is a philosophical black hole-the point where reason breaks down. — Kedar Joshi
If God were to exist for the entire humanity, he would be profoundly vile, as he allows the existence of unfathomable sin, stupidity, madness, and… — Kedar Joshi
The universe is a philosophical abyss. — Kedar Joshi

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