Philosopher Quotations | Page 4

Practical acts are such as, through the medium of our bodily movements, alter the object or its relation to ourselves or to other subjects.

There was absolutely no strain in marriage. Marc and I understand that this is a business. We have no problem separating our personal life with our personal life. And we have a very strong relationship.

In certain situations, there is a classical function and responsibility there that must not be avoided, even if it is just to appeal to good sense.

I may never have experienced a centaur, but by imagining one, I know that I can also imagine others that resemble this one and yet are different.

Indonesians must understand that there is no Islamic state without the enforcement of Islamic laws. Otherwise it is just talk and nothing else.

Immanent and transcendent experience are nevertheless connected in a remarkable way: by a change in attitude, we can pass from the one to the other.

I have no regrets in my life. I think that everything happens to you for a reason. The hard times that you go through build character, making you a much stronger person.

I love the traditional sound of a guy like Wes or Jim Hall and when I'm playing that type of music I gravitate to that kind of sound.

Instead, it appears to be a particular mark of beauty that it is considered with tranquil satisfaction; that it pleases if we also do not possess it and we are still far removed from demanding to possess it.

If you do not the expect the unexpected you will not find it, for it is not to be reached by search or trail.

In the U.S.A. or Europe there is no realistic way to estimate the type, magnitude, or probability of the risk, nor any way to narrow down the potentially affected regions.

So far as their own phenomenal content is concerned, they do not suffer in any way when believing in Objective actuality is put out of play.

I'm glad to see that women have an important role within the industry. My no. 1 complaint would still be that most women are very submissive and victims. I would like to see women portrayed in a much stronger and intelligent capacity.

As we realise that more and more things have global impact, I think we're going to get people increasingly wanting to get away from a purely national interest.

Still others want a traditional guitar sound if they call you for guitar.

All philosophical disciplines are rooted in pure phenomenology, through whose development, and through it alone, they obtain their proper force.

The joys of parents are secret, and so are their griefs and fears.

The counsel of God is, as it were, his deliberation over the best manner of accomplishing anything already approved by the understanding and the will.

In the act of perception there are accordingly these two things, the mind engaged in a certain act, and the thing called the tree which is not mental.

I will admit, like Socrates and Aristotle and Plato and some other philosophers, that there are instances where the death penalty would seem appropriate.

They who assert that a blind fatality produced the various effects we behold in this world talk very absurdly; for can anything be more unreasonable than to pretend that a blind fatality could be productive of intelligent beings?

We need fewer philosophies and more philosophers.

The Democrats believe they need more of your money to spend because they can spend it better than you can. But you know, sometimes philosophers don't act.

In fact like most other kids in the late 60's I was listening to Hendrix, Allman Bros., Beatles, Eric Clapton and Led Zepplin among other stuff.

A philosopher is aspires to explain away all mysteries, to dissolve them into light.

A new fundamental science, pure phenomenology, has developed within philosophy: This is a science of a thoroughly new type and endless scope.

The combination of experience and experimentation will ultimately yield a personal sound.

The giving is the hardest part; what does it cost to add a smile?

The ultimate effect of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools.

Philosophy has a fine saying for everything.-For Death it has an entire set.

If I wished to punish a province, I would have it governed by philosophers.

Anytime you see a Hungarian, kick him. He'll know why. Any two philosophers can tell each other all they know in two hours.

What a pity that 'nothingness' has been devalued by an abuse of it made by philosophers unworthy of it!

Philosophers write for professors; thinkers for writers.

The philosopher Elaine Scarry has observed that "beauty always takes place in the particular." Cruelty, on the other hand, prefers abstraction.

The philosopher says that God's knowledge is the measure of things, and that things are the measure of man's knowledge.

The act of philosophizing involves the character of the philosopher.

A great philosopher in the wrong is like a beacon on the reefs which says to seamen: steer clear of me.

Experiences are the chemicals of life with which the philosopher experiments

Posterity will one day laugh at the foolishness of modern materialistic philosophers.

Clearness marks the sincerity of philosophers.

This is how philosophers should salute each other: ‘Take your time.

This sort of thing has got to be stopped. Bad philosophers are like slum landlords. It's my job to put them out of business.

It's only by thinking even more crazily than philosophers do that you can solve their problems.

Only when one thinks even much more madly than the philosophers can one solve their problems.

The philosopher strives to find the liberating word, that is, the word that finally permits us to grasp what up to now has intangibly weighed down upon our consciousness.

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

According to Augustine and many of his successors, all men deserve eternal torture, but God in his infinite mercy saves a very few.

It is this way that in mathematics speculative theorems and practical canons are reduced by analysis to definitions, axioms and postulates.

It's a wonderful feeling knowing that people are interested in what I'm doing.

The Renaissance movement of the last two decades differs from all the early movements in being a fully conscious and studied movement.

There will always be someone to take your place, but no one can every replace you.

I basically only read books that are over 2,000 years old.

I believe it is always a writer who is accused of being someone who is engaged in an explanation with language, the economy of language.

I derive nothing whatever from my own nature, nothing from the nature imagined by the philosophers - all comes from God and His decrees.

If I knew of something that could serve my nation but would ruin another, I would not propose it to my prince, for I am first a man and only then a Frenchman... because I am necessarily a man, and only accidentally am I French.

If every conceivable precaution is taken at first, one is often too discouraged to proceed at all.

Great is the man who has not lost his childlike heart.

Hearing here, therefore, means any receiving of the word of God whether it be communicated to us by preaching, reading, or any other way.

I am not primarily an entrepreneurial businessman. I'm primarily a playboy philosopher.

By legend and perhaps by nature philosophers are more accustomed to the armchair than the workbench.

Many modern philosophers claim that probability is relation between an hypothesis and the evidence for it.

Decades ago, Gerhard Richter found a painterly philosopher's stone. Like Jackson Pollock before him, he discovered something that had been in painting all along, always overlooked or discounted.

To understand a philosopher requires a philosopher.

Most mothers are instinctive philosophers.

Mothers are the most instinctive philosophers.

If Socrates died like a philosopher, Jesus Christ died like a God.

These critics organize and practice in my case a sort of obsessive personality cult which philosophers should know how to question and above all, to moderate.

Nietzsche ... has caused [philosophers] so much confusion.

No philosophers so thoroughly comprehend us as dogs and horses.

No philosopher's stone of a constitution can produce golden conduct from leaden instincts.

To grow a philosopher's beard.

Philosophers say that perfection is unattainable. Lithographers redefine perfection according to SEMI standards.

One of the most difficult tasks confronting philosophers is to descend from the world of thought to the actual world.

According to the saying of an ancient philosopher, one should eat to live, and not live to eat

Every remedy is a desperate remedy. Every cure is a miraculous cure. Curing a madman is not arguing with a philosopher; it is casting out a devil.

Cowardice was undoubtedly one of the most terrible vices - thus spoke Yeshua Ha-Nozri. 'No, philosopher, I disagree with you: it is the most terrible vice!

These are fashionable people who call themselves philosophers.

Only the free-wheeling artist-explorer, non-academic, scientist-philosopher, mechanic, economist-poet who has never waited for patron-starting and accrediting of his co-ordinate capabilities holds the prime initiative today.

For us scientists, on the other wing, life is not quite so simple. Because we learn the unknown. Unlike, hah-hah, our esteemed friends the philosophers, who learn the unknowable.

In the very books in which philosophers bid us scorn fame, they inscribe their names.

The whole life of a philosopher is the meditation of his death.

How do our philosophers act? Do they not inscribe their signatures to the very essays they write on the propriety of despising glory.

As a philosopher, I have a right to ask for a rational explanation of religious faith.

Nothing is too absurd to be said by some of the philosophers.

Sed nescio quo modo nihil tam absurde dici potest quod non dicatur ab aliquo philosphorum. (There is nothing so absurd but some philosopher has said it.)

There is no statement so absurd that no philosopher will make it.

The visible world was only an imperfect reflection of the Ideal, which the Philosopher sought to transcend.

We are apt to consider Shakespeare only as a poet; but he was certainly one of the greatest moral philosophers that ever lived.

Before researchers become researches they should become philosophers.

I was a poet animated by philosophy, not a philosopher with poetic faculties.

The philosopher is a person who refuses no pleasures which do not produce greater sorrows, and who knows how to create new ones.

I have lived as a philosopher and die as a Christian.

If this is philosophy it is at any rate a philosophy that is not in its right mind.

The French have never produced a great philosopher. Great wine maybe, but no great philosophers.

It is good to renew one's wonder, said the philosopher. Space travel has again made children of us all.

The critic ... should be not merely a poet, not merely a philosopher, not merely an observer, but tempered of all three.

He raged for hours. And the skeleton, ever the frail and solelmn philosopher, hung quietly inside, saying not a word, suspended like a delicate insect within a chrysalis, waiting and waiting.

I used to think that I was stupid, and then I met philosophers.

I would like to be a philosopher in ancient Athens and a poet in ancient China.