Philosophical Quotes

A country's strategy is always based on a fundamental philosophical outlook.

You get to say, 'Here's my philosophical idea about what the costume should like,' and the costume designer comes and gives you choices and sometimes they're all good, and I say, 'What do you think?' and they pick the right thing.

I had some hesitations about philosophy because, if you worked out a philosophical theory, it was hard to know whether you were going to be able to prove it or whether other theories had just as good a claim on belief.

Maybe I'm being philosophical and spiritual, but I believe that if you put negative energy out there that that is what will come back.

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

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

To the extent that philosophical positions both confuse us and close doors to further inquiry, they are likely to be wrong.

Not that I wish by any means to deny, that the mental life of individuals and peoples is also in conformity with law, as is the object of philosophical, philological, historical, moral, and social sciences to establish.

The first of these phases is that of grammar, invented by the Greeks and carried on unchanged by the French. It never had any philosophical view of a language as such.

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?

And what sort of philosophical doctrine is thi - that numbers confer unlimited rights, that they take from some persons all rights over themselves, and vest these rights in others.

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

To be a philosophical sceptic is, in a man of letters, the first and most essential to being a sound, believing Christian.

All good performance pieces have some philosophical validity. That's the difference between mere theater and performance art.

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

There is a class, moreover, by whom all these scientific theories, and more are held as ascertained facts, and as the basis of philosophical inferences which strike at the root of theistic beliefs.

Anyhow, a philosophical turn of thought now was not amiss, else one's patience would have given out almost at the harbour entrance. The term of her probation was eight days.

One of my favorite philosophical tenets is that people will agree with you only if they already agree with you. You do not change people's minds.

War is to man what maternity is to a woman. From a philosophical and doctrinal viewpoint, I do not believe in perpetual peace.

Anti-Semitism has no historical, political and certainly no philosophical origins. Anti-Semitism is a disease.

It really is a nice theory. The only defect I think it has is probably common to all philosophical theories. It's wrong.

So I think one can say on empirical grounds - not because of some philosophical principle - that you can't have democracy unless you have a market economy.

There are philosophical issues involved in that about choosing the right discount rate, the value, the future, and things like that which drive it. But its start with the premise that global warming is real and if you're a denier of that fact, then you're not going to find climate change mitigation policies to have particular appeal.

Swing voters are more appropriately known as the 'idiot voters' because they have no set of philosophical principles. By the age of fourteen, you're either a Conservative or a Liberal if you have an IQ above a toaster.

Compromise and tolerance are magic words. It took me 40 years to become philosophical.

I was unwilling to - without getting too philosophical about it - I was unwilling to structure my spirituality in the way that the church wanted me to structure it.

The Web is now philosophical engineering. Physics and the Web are both about the relationship between the small and the large.

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

Our society is the product of several great religious and philosophical traditions. The ideas of the Greeks and Romans, Christianity, Judaism, humanism and the Enlightenment have made us who we are.

To some it is Napoleon, to some it is a philosophical struggle, to me it is allegro con brio.