Quotes of: Philosophically Keyword

A philosophical thought is not supposed to be impervious to all criticism; this is the error Whitehead describes of turning philosophy into geometry, and it is useful primarily as a way of gaining short-term triumphs in personal arguments that no one...

Love

You scoundrel, you have wronged me," hissed the philosopher, "May you live forever!

A Cynic Looks at Life

Unfortunately robots capable of manufacturing robots do not exist. That would be the philosopher's stone, the squaring of the circle.

The Glass Bees

Pakistan is heir to an intellectual tradition of which the illustrious exponent was the poet and philosopher Mohammad Iqbal. He saw the future course for Islamic societies in a synthesis between adherence to the faith and adjustment to the modern age...

Benazir Bhutto

I know no subject more elevating, more amazing, more ready to the poetical enthusiasm, the philosophical reflection, and the moral sentiment than the works of nature. Where can we meet such variety, such beauty, such magnificence?

James Thomson

Serious thinkers are few, and the world is ruled by crude ideas.

The Heavenly City of the Eighteenth Century Philosophers

Reason may be employed to support faith as well as to destroy it.

The Heavenly City of the Eighteenth Century Philosophers

The philosopher cannot seriously put to himself questions that his civilization has not lived.

Irrational Man: A Study in Existential Philosophy

To be a philosopher, just reverse everything you have ever been told...and have a sense of humor doing it.

Killosophy

The philosopher whose dealings are with divine order himself acquires the characteristics of order and divinity.

The Republic

Now there are no priests or philosophers left, artists are the most important people in the world.

Mosquito

...as I get older, I find myself insisting on my right to be philosophically sloppy.

Major Pettigrew's Last Stand

People can think only in images. If you want to be a philosopher, write novels.

Notebooks, 1935-1951

As useful as an unhappy artist. As useless as a happy philosopher.

N for Nigger: Aphorisms for Grown Children and Childish Grown-ups

In the words of the philosopher Sceptum, the founder of my profession: am I going to get paid for this?

Night Watch

Like all philosophers, Aristotle gives words the definitions which will be most useful for his own purpose

Studies in Words

What is tolerance? It is a necessary consequence of humanity. We are all fallible, let us then pardon each other's follies. This is the first principle of natural right.

Philosophical Dictionary

The problems are solved, not by giving new information, but by arranging what we have known since long.

Philosophical Investigations

Avoid the stage of old age sit in the audience, it's all the rage

Philosophical Uplifting Quotes and Poems

There’s only one person to blame for lack of self confidence

Philosophical Uplifting Quotes and Poems

Where other powers of entertainment are wanting, the true philosopher will derive benefit from such as are given.

Pride and Prejudice