Top 1200 Some Philosophical Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

A philosophical thought has probably not attained all its sharpness and all its illumination until it is expressed in French.

You have to abide by the regulations that the regulators insist on. This is not a philosophical divide - it's a fact of life.

The point of a philosophical spirit is to rely primarily upon one's own thinking.

I don't want to be overly philosophical, but I think there are things you earn for yourself as you go.

A Finnan haddock has a relish of a peculiar and delicate flavour, inimitable on any other coast than that of Aberdeenshire. Some of our Edinburgh philosophers tried to produce their equal in vain. I was one of a party at dinner where the philosophical haddocks were placed in competition with the genuine Finnan fish. These were served round without distinguishing whence they came; but only one gentleman out of twelve present espoused the cause of philosophy.

Metaphysics is the clearing house for all fundamental philosophical problems.

Well, I don't like to get involved in these philosophical issues very much.

But love is different for every person. For some it's hate, for some it's joy, for some it's fear, for some it's jealousy, for some it's torture, for some it's peace. For some it's everything.

There are many of these apparent philosophical paradoxes or contradictions which don't concern me anymore.

With my full philosophical rucksack I can only climb slowly up the mountain of mathematics.

Every philosophical review ought to be a philosophy of reviews at the same time.

Coffee makes us severe, and grave and philosophical.

There is often more spiritual force in a proverb than in whole philosophical systems.

Usually on jobs I'm quite philosophical and think 'The right girl gets the part and everything is meant to be.'

You know you've completely descended into madness when the matter of shampoo has ascended to philosophical heights.

Reason has, especially today, many other manifestations than philosophical ones.

Farmers are philosophical. They have learned that it is less wearing to shrug than to beat their breasts.

I am philosophical Christ; crucified on the cross of ignorance for the sake of divine vanity.

It is always incorrect to assume you can know what someone's moral convictions are based on their philosophical theories.

When you're young you try to be methodical and philosophical, but reality keeps breaking in.

Any political or philosophical agenda can and will be perverted by power and/or fear.

I'd be somewhat disinclined to be responsible for the fortunes of a franchise that uses a sitcom as their philosophical north star.

Fine. Since the tea is not forthcoming, let's have a philosophical conversation.

I want to be scary, boring, philosophical, funny, touching.

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

A philosophical problem has the form: I don't know my way about.

God is a philosophical black hole-the point where reason breaks down.

No argument for abortion survives scientific, philosophical, or theological scrutiny.

The digitization of our society is a challenge that is both legislative and philosophical.

Any religious, philosophical or political idea that doesn't lead one towards love ought to be forsaken

That's one thing about Dave Filoni. He doesn't call me up unless there's something to think about or there's something that we have to work out on a philosophical or moral or a mythological riddle that we need to solve. Some sort of moral conundrum that we need to place our feet on one side or the other. It's fun when we can ambiguously put those feet into the sand and let the fans discover for itself what it all means.

I'm very educated and can give you somewhat of a vocabulary, but I don't get to the philosophical side.

When I study philosophical works I feel I am swallowing something which I don't have in my mouth.

The most beautiful philosophical song existing in any known tongue.

In my downtime, for fun, I engage in philosophical internet debates. Yeah, I'm that guy.

Now to the term 'relativity theory.' I admit that it is unfortunate, and has given occasion to philosophical misunderstandings.

Technology at present is covert philosophy; the point is to make it overtly philosophical.

Some people say What's the use of the term if it has to be so fully documented and constrained and footnoted and all the rest. My response to that is: there is no theological word that does not have to be similarly footnoted and constrained: justification, spirit, sanctification etc. Any term can be distorted or domesticated or fly off the handle because of another alien philosophical structure that's imposed on the text and so on. Inerrancy is no different from what we find in every other theologically loaded word.

What was Ted Kennedy? Was he not the ultimate insider in Washington, yet maintaining philosophical views, when necessary?

The sense of historical continuity, and a feeling for philosophical rectitude cannot, however, be compromised.

No woman has been a significant original thinker in any of the world's great philosophical traditions.

A lot of the foundational philosophical approaches of tech leaders are actually all about decentralization of power.

I consider early childhood events as most essential to a man's scientific and philosophical development.

The ultimate philosophical challenge is to reveal the ontology of God.

Philosophical systems are wholly true for their founders only.

I don't really give into all that philosophical talks that 'money is not everything.'

There is not a philosophical method, though there are indeed methods, like different therapies.

A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes.

That's an interesting philosophical question. When your boner goes away, is that one gone... forever?

My interest in biology was pretty much always on the philosophical side.

For me, Stalinism was even a greater philosophical problem than Nazism. Under Nazism, if you were a Jew, you were simply killed, no questions asked, you had nothing to prove. Under Stalinism, of course, most [victims] were on trial for false accusations; most of them were not traitors. There is one interesting feature: that they were tortured or through some kind of blackmail forced to confess to being traitors.

Philosophical discussions habitually make men happy and joyful not frowning and sad.

The winding down of summer puts me in a heavy philosophical mood.

Most of the propositions and questions to be found in philosophical works are not false but nonsensical.

It is difficult to obtain the friendship of a cat. It is a philosophical animal... one that does not place its affections thoughtlessly.

It's not like I have this philosophical answer as to why I love rock.

The so-called mysteries of quantum mechanics are in its philosophical interpretation, not in its mathematics.

I'm interested in philosophical psychology, people like Nietzsche, Freud, Alcan, Foucault, Derrida.

I'm not from a milieu where high-register language or philosophical ideas were welcome.

Losing love is so rich a philosophical ordeal that it makes a hairdresser into a rival of Socrates.