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Christianity met the mythological search for romance by being a story and the philosophical search for truth by being a true story.
I know that I'm deeply, spiritually, profoundly philosophical and I also know that I'm about the flakiest person you're gonna meet.
The stream of thinking has enormous momentum that can easily drag you along with it. Every thought pretends that it matters so much.
In unphilosophical minds any rare or unexpected thing excites wonder, while in philosophical minds the familiar excites wonder also.
It is a safe rule to apply that, when a mathematical or philosophical author writes with a misty profundity, he is talking nonsense.
Existentialism is about being a saint without God; being your own hero, without all the sanction and support of religion or society.
Oh, a very useful philosophical animal, your average tortoise. Outrunning metaphorical arrows, beating hares in races... very handy.
You have to be very fond of men. Very, very fond. You have to be very fond of them to love them. Otherwise they're simply unbearable.
The major public goals in my life are intellectual goals. There are various philosophical things that I want to work on and work out.
To be is to be perceived (Esse est percipi)." Or, "If a tree falls in the forest and no one is there to hear it, does it make a sound?
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.
There is no one who can give you wiser advice than you can give yourself: you will never make a slip, if you listen to your own heart.
You have good games, you have bad games. You have good years, you have bad years. I have always been kind of philosophical about that.
Music can be soothing or invigorating ennobling or vulgarizing, philosophical or orgiastic. It has powers of evil as well as for good.
Thanks to the acuteness of his mind, he saw through the poverty of philosophical and Gnostic knowledge, and contemptuously rejected it.
In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity.
Why are we even here [on earth], what's our human nature? It's precipitating a real philosophical crisis that I find quite fascinating.
Plato worried that philosophical writing would take the place of living conversations for which, in philosophy, there is no substitute.
Why do you climb philosophical hills? Because they are worth climbing . . . There are no hills to go down unless you start from the top.
It is difficult to obtain the friendship of a cat. It is a philosophical animal... one that does not place its affections thoughtlessly.
Nanny's philosophy of life was to do what seemed like a good idea at the time, and do it as hard as possible. It had never let her down.
A principal struggle of many young companies is to establish an identity, a philosophical and emotional core, and LAIKA is no exception.
That's an interesting thing about an object. One object speaks volumes about the company that produced it and its values and priorities.
For Emily Dickinson every philosophical idea was a potential lover. Metaphysics is the realm of eternal seduction of the spirit by ideas.
In all my years of New York cab riding I have yet to find the colorful, philosophical cabdriver that keeps popping up on the late movies.
On your 60th, here's something philosophical To give the old grey matter a stir How old would you be If you didn't know how old you were?
O Heaven, it is mysterious, it is awful to consider that we not only carry each a future Ghost within him; but are, in very deed, Ghosts!
Sign language is the equal of speech, lending itself equally to the rigorous and the poetic, to philosophical analysis or to making love.
I don't have a philosophical objection, necessarily, to a travel ban if that is the thing that is going to keep the American people safe.
If the ethical - that is, social morality- is the highest ... then no categories are needed other than the Greek philosophical categories.
I figured out some basic stuff: that form and colour defines your perception of the nature of an object, whether or not it is intended to.
An examination of Indian Vedic doctrines shows that it is in tune with the most advanced scientific and philosophical thought of the West.
Our goal is to try to bring a calm and simplicity to what are incredibly complex problems so that you're not aware really of the solution.
When most people turn on their TVs, they don't expect a frank discussion of philosophical ideas in their practical context. Or any context.
In philosophy, the principles are more interesting than the examples. In literature, the examples are more interesting than the principles.
A moody child and wildly wise Pursued the game with joyful eyes, Which chose, like meteors, their way, And rived the dark with private ray.
In Paris, I didn't want to be friends with people in fashion. I wanted to get into a philosophical society where all the thinking men were.
Men have discovered other philosophical and ethical systems, but they have not found another Jesus Christ. No one in history can match Him.
The environmental crisis has deep spiritual, philosophical, and religious roots and causes. It is not merely the result of bad engineering.
The poetry of this one is called philosophical, of that one philological, of a third rhetorical, and so on. Which is then the poetic poetry?
for we are inquiring not in order to know what virtue is, but in order to become good, since otherwise our inquiry would have been of no use
A categorical imperative would be one which represented an action as objectively necessary in itself, without reference to any other purpose.
In the Bible, there is no mention of the Trinity. . . . We get to know God, not through our proud philosophical concepts, but through Christ.
This first glance of a soul which does not yet know itself is like dawn in the heavens; it is the awakening of something radiant and unknown.
I slept with faith and found a corpse in my arms on awakening; I drank and danced all night with doubt and found her a virgin in the morning.
The most dangerous criminal now is the entirely lawless modern philosopher. Compared to him, burglars and bigamists are essentially moral men.
For the classics philosophical insight was the product of a life of leisure; for me a life of leisure is the product of philosophical insight.
I am only a philosopher, and there is only one thing that a philosopher can be relied on to do, and that is, to contradict other philosophers.
Sometimes my poetry is an attempt to keep off existential terror; sometimes it is a grappling with philosophical problems; sometimes just fun.
Among creatures born into chaos, a majority will imagine an order, a minority will question the order, and the rest will be pronounced insane.