Top 138 Philosophic Quotes & Sayings

We will grieve not, rather find strength in what remains behind. In the faith that looks through death, in years that bring the philosophic mind.

An attitude of philosophic doubt, of suspended judgment, is repugnant to the natural man. Belief is an independent joy to him.

... clothes sometimes gave one more of a lift than any philosophic comforting.

If we are to take for the criterion of truth the majority of suffrages, they ought to be gotten from those philosophic and patriotic citizens who cultivate their reason.

I should venture to assert that the most pervasive fallacy of philosophic thinking goes back to neglect of context.

In years that bring the philosophic mind.

Modern Americans travel light, with little philosophic baggage other than a fervent belief in their right to the pursuit of happiness.

Nothing is more vain than to seek to unite men by a philosophic minimum.

I think that one should view with philosophic admiration the strange paths of the libido and should investigate the purposes of its circuitous ways.

Every dogma, every philosophic or theological creed, was at its inception a statement in terms of the intellect of a certain inner experience.

Good humor is a philosophic state of mind; it seems to say to nature that we take her no more seriously than she takes us.

To a philosophic eye, the vices of the clergy are far less dangerous than their virtues.

Philosophy begins in wonder. And, at the end, when philosophic thought has done its best, the wonder remains.

Consequently, the first thing to be done in any search after philosophic principles is to travel over the special sciences with a view to extracting from them such information as is relevant to our purpose.

Empirical sciences prosecuted purely for their own sake, and without philosophic tendency are like a face without eyes.

The philosophic aim of education must be to get each one out of his isolated class and into the one humanity.

The philosophic spirit of inquiry may be traced to brute curiosity, and that to the habit of examining all things in search of food. Artistic genius is an expansion of monkey imitativeness.

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

Recognition of the modes of existence of technical objects must be the result of philosophic consideration; what philosophy has to achieve in this respect is analogous to what the abolition of slavery achieved in affirming the worth of the individual human being.

Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck.

Democracy, thus French revolution, was not invented by philosophic theory nor by the bourgeois leadership. It was discovered by the masses in their method of action.

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

Paul Brunton's Notebooks are a veritable treasure-trove of philosophic-spiritual wisdom.

In the philosophic sense, observation shows and experiment teaches.

The mysteries of Nature and of humanity are not lessened, but increased, by the discoveries of philosophic skill.

The adjective "political" in "political philosophy" designates not so much the subject matter as a manner of treatment; from this point of view, I say, "political philosophy" means primarily not the philosophic study of politics, but the political, or popular, treatment of philosophy, or the political introduction to philosophy the attempt to lead qualified citizens, or rather their qualified sons, from the political life to the philosophic life.

Rightly viewed no meanest object is insignificant; all objects are as windows through which the philosophic eye looks into infinitude itself.

I mistrust the satisfaction which makes a display of the possession of Infinity; that is called fatuity in philosophic terms.

The process of philosophic and scientific enlightenment has shaken the stability of beliefs held explicitly as articles of faith.

It was also Hegel who established the view that the different philosophic systems that we find in history are to be comprehended in terms of development and that they are generally one-sided because they owe their origins to a reaction against what has gone before.

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.

The philosophic spirit of inquiry may be traced to brute curiosity, and that to the habit of examining all things in search of food.

I needn't tell you that success and failure prove nothing - the whole thing is a lottery. It's pleasant to succeed; but for a philosophic mind it oughtn't to be very upsetting to fail.

So the nature required to make a really noble Guardian of our commonwealth will be swift and strong, spirited, and philosophic.

When philosophic reason is clear and certain by intuition or necessary induction, no subsequent revelation supported by prophecies or miracles can supersede it.

I know that there are many persons to whom it seems derogatory to link a body of philosophic ideas to the social life and cultureof their epoch. They seem to accept a dogma of immaculate conception of philosophical systems.

Digression is the soul of wit. Take the philosophic asides away from Dante, Milton or Hamlet's father's ghost and what stays is dry bones.

There is little of the true philosophic spirit in Aquinas. He does not, like the Platonic Socrates, set out to follow wherever the argument may lead.

Philosophic meditation is an accomplishment by which I attain Being and my own self, not impartial thinking which studies a subject with indifference.

A declaration of the independence of America, and the sovereignty of the United States was drawn by the ingenious and philosophic pen of Thomas Jefferson, Esquire, a delegate from the state of Virginia.

Truth Will Set U Free is about honesty. My philosophic belief that ultimately being true to yourself is liberating, with every individual's inalienable right to be who they are without fear or recrimination.

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

'Truth Will Set U Free' is about honesty. My philosophic belief that ultimately being true to yourself is liberating, with every individual's inalienable right to be who they are without fear or recrimination.

Scientific and philosophic truth have parted company.

The courage of the truth is the first condition of philosophic study.

All our scientific and philosophic ideals are altars to unknown gods.

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

Seldom can philosophic genius be more usefully employed than in thus rescuing admitted truths from the neglect caused by the very circumstance of their universal admission.

Monotheism owes its existence not to philosophic speculation about the nature of reality or knowledge or virtue, but to acceptance of reality identified with a supreme being.

If a philosophic theory is once ruled out of court, no one can tell when it will appear again.

The Irish are a philosophic as well as a practical race. Their first and strongest impulse is to make the best of a bad situation to put a better face on evil than it normally wears.

A declaration of the independence of America, and the sovereignty of the United STates was drawn by the ingenious and philosophic pen of Thomas Jefferson, Esquire, a delegate from the state of Virginia

The well taught philosophic mind To all compassion gives; Casts round the world an equal eye, And feels for all that lives.

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

If freedom is to flourish the philosophic foundations of a free society must be kept a living intellectual issue and its implementation a task which challenges the ingenuity and imagination of the liveliest minds.

Any philosophic explanation of Quality is going to be both false and true precisely because it is a philosophic explanation. The process of philosophic explanation is an analytic process, a process of breaking something down into subjects and predicates. What I mean (and everybody else means) by the word 'quality' cannot be broken down into subjects and predicates. This is not because Quality is so mysterious but because Quality is so simple, immediate and direct.

The third principle is that any philosophic knowledge is only valuable if it is true or if it works.

That fact that Athens could condemn its noblest citizen to death did more than make a profound impression on him. It was to shape the course of his entire philosophic endeavor.

To reflect the entire spectrum, the dynamics of the adventure novel must be invested with a philosophic synthesis of one kind or another.

Science, like art, religion, political theory, or psychoanalysis - is work that holds out the promise of philosophic understanding, excites in us the belief that we can 'make sense of it all.