Damn Quote by William Carlos Williams

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.

— Anonymous

“As far as I am concerned, philosophic questioning is just as likely to make you confused and depressed as it is to improve your…

— Christopher Paolini

Philosophic argument, especially that drawn from the vastness of the universe, in comparison with the apparent insignificance of this globe, has sometimes shaken my…

— Daniel Webster

Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are of the nature rather of universals, whereas those…

— Aristotle

If we study Japanese art, we see a man who is undoubtedly wise, philosophic and intelligent, who spends his time doing what? He studies…

— Vincent Van Gogh

To despise riches, may, indeed, be philosophic, but to dispense them worthily, must surely be more beneficial to mankind.

— Fanny Burney

We may say that hysteria is a caricature of an artistic creation, a compulsion neurosis a caricature of a religion, and a paranoiac delusion…

— Sigmund Freud

After a study of some forty years and more of the great religions of the world, I find none so perfect, none so scientific,…

— Annie Besant

We must make the building of a free society once more an intellectual adventure, a deed of courage… Unless we can make the philosophic…

— Friedrich August von Hayek

We believe that the materials and the stories taken from the raw can be finer (more real in the philosophic sense) than the acted…

— John Grierson

“The philosophic outlook rises above all sectarian controversy. It finds its own position not only by appreciating and synthesizing what is solidly based in…

— Paul Brunton

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