Quotes of: Philosophically Keyword

We were promised a society of philosophers. But the Blogosphere is looking more and more like a nation of ankle-biters.

Steven Levy

The most dangerous criminal now is the entirely lawless modern philosopher. Compared to him, burglars and bigamists are essentially moral men.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

The philosophical study of nature endeavors, in the the vicissitudes of phenomena, to connect the present with the past.

Alexander Humboldt

Know that the philosopher has power over the stars, and not the stars over him.

Paracelsus

Designing posters, for me, is not only a commercial pursuit but also a philosophical endeavor.

Love

We have to make philosophy itself an object of philosophical concern.

Wilhelm Dilthey

I profess to learn and to teach anatomy not from books but from dissections, not from the tenets of Philosophers but from the fabric of Nature.

William Harvey

Perhaps it is of more value to infuriate philosophers than to go along with them.

Wallace Stevens

If we wanted to construct a basic philosophical attitude from these scientific utterances of 's, at first we would be inclined to infer from them an extreme rationalism and a fundamentally skeptical point of view. In reality however, behind this outw...

Physics and Philosophy: The Revolution in Modern Science

Wheels have been set in motion, and they have their own pace, to which we are...condemned. Each move is dictated by the previous one - that is the meaning of order. If we start being arbitrary it'll just be a shambles: at least, let us hope so. Becau...

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead

To maximize what you get out of your college experience, I want your friends to look at your semester schedule and say “this is the weirdest schedule I’ve ever seen!” Trust me on this one. If you want to be an engineer, take Engineering 101, an...

Anonymous

The philosopher is not the spokesman of his age, but an angel imprisoned in time.

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Be a philosopher; but, amidst all your philosophy, be still a man.

An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding

The philosophers write about things as they are and as they appear to be, but as an artist I find that appearance is everything.

The Flower to the Painter

For it is owing to their wonder that men both now begin and at first began to philosophize.

Metaphysics

I am a citizen of the world.

The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers

A true philosopher must never give up.

Sophie's World

For this feeling of wonder shows that you are a philosopher, since wonder is the only beginning of philosophy.

Theaetetus

The truths of religion are never so well understood as by those who have lost the power of reasoning.

Philosophical Dictionary

If you find yourself cutting corners, go in a circle instead

Philosophical Uplifting Quotes and Poems

Do short people reach their full potential quicker?

Philosophical Uplifting Quotes and Poems