Quotes of: Philosophical-problem Keyword

This queer crotchet [of Hamilton's] that algebra is the science of pure time has attracted many philosophers, and quite recently it has been exhumed and solemnly dissected by owlish metaphysicians seeking the philosopher's stone in the gall bladder o...

Eric Temple Bell

When I saw that Moses’ version of the Genesis of the world did not fit sufficiently in many ways with and the rest of the philosophers, I began to have doubts about the truth of all philosophers and started to investigate the secrets of nature.

Gerardus Mercator

The very fact of having fixed conclusions to strive for in orthodox belief does not render the Christian philosopher dogmatic but rather intellectually fruitful, willing to take and follow reason further than the putatively undogmatic unbelieving phi...

Gregory B. Sadler

Philosophy used to be a field that had content, but then 'natural philosophy' became physics, and physics has only continued to make inroads. Every time there's a leap in physics, it encroaches on these areas that philosophers have carefully sequeste...

Lawrence M. Krauss

The philosopher was eating bread and lentils for supper. He was seen by the philosopher , who lived comfortably by flattering the king. Said , ' .' Said [author:Diogenes|3213618, 'Learn to live on lentils and you will not have to be subservient to th...

Anthony de Mello

In asking philosophical questions, we use a reason shaped by the body, a cognitive unconscious to which we have no direct access, and metaphorical thought of which we are largely unaware. The fact that abstract thought is mostly metaphorical means th...

George Lakoff

The problem is not that you have problems; the problem is that you see having problems as a problem.

The Goddess Who Lost Her Weight: Inspiration For Enlightenment With Abundance, A Spiritual Guide To Weight Loss

The problem with prototypes is they don't always work.

Laurie Anderson

The problem with public school is not overcrowding in the classroom. The problem is not teacher unions. The problem is not underfunding or lack of computer equipment. The problem is your damn kids.

P. J. O'Rourke

So what's the problem?’ ‘No problem. There's no problem. Don't ever say what's the problem, nthat's the negative way of looking at things, you know like is the bottle half empty or half full, know what I mean, every problem is also an opportunity...

Mayday

If having problems feels like a problem to you, it may not be the problems themselves, but the way you think about them that is the problem.

Steve Goodier

The biggest problem with dyslexic kids is not the perceptual problem, it is their perception of themselves. That was my biggest problem.

Bruce Jenner

President Lyndon B. Johnson: There is no Negro problem. There is no Southern problem. There is no Northern problem. There is only an American problem.

Selma

The problem with that analysis is that it is incorrect.

Herman Cain

It seems like every day you have to deal with problems, interpersonal problems, survival, and so on and so forth. But you only have one problem and there is one solution to that problem. Isn’t that nice to think it is so simple? If there is such a ...

Unwind Your Mind Back to God: Experiencing A Course in Miracles

Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

The Citizen of the World, Or, Letters from a Chinese Philosopher, Residing in London, to His Friends in the Country, by Dr. Goldsmith

The psychoanalytic liberation of memory explodes the rationality of the repressed individual. As cognition gives way to re-cognition, the forbidden images and impulses of childhood begin to tell the truth that reason denies.

Eros and Civilization: A Philosophical Inquiry into Freud

If is the bond binding me to life, binding society to me, connecting me with nature and man, is not money the bond of all ? Can it not dissolve and bind all ties? Is it not, therefore, also the universal of ?

Economic & Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844/The Communist Manifesto

When you beat up someone physically, you get excercise and stress relief; when you assault him verbally on the Internet, you just harm yourself.

The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms

... while we are familiar with the adverse effect of drink on an empty stomach, we are now witnessing the far worse effect of drink on an empty mind.

I Drink Therefore I am: A Philosopher's Guide to Wine

The living and efficaciously acting moral order is itself God. We require no other God, nor can we grasp any other.

Religious and Philosophical Writings of Johann Gottlieb Fichte