Philosophical Quotes - Page 38

Radio was, in a way, a very philosophical medium. You could make an argument on the radio, and people listened to it. Television is already harder because people's attention span becomes shorter with television. Cut to a commercial and all that.

Hatred is inveterate anger.

The good of the people is the greatest law.

No one has the right to be sorry for himself for a misfortune that strikes everyone.

I never admire another's fortune so much that I became dissatisfied with my own.

You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long.

Logic takes care of itself; all we have to do is to look and see how it does it.

An inner process stands in need of outward criteria.

Someone who knows too much finds it hard not to lie.

Inflationism, however, is not an isolated phenomenon. It is only one piece in the total framework of politico-economic and socio-philosophical ideas of our time. Just as the sound money policy of gold standard advocates went hand in hand with liberalism, free trade, capitalism and peace, so is inflationism part and parcel of imperialism, militarism, protectionism, statism and socialism.

Civilizations die from philosophical calm, irony, and a sense of fair play quite as surely as they die of debauchery.

It is sufficiently evident from many circumstances, that the doctrine of the divinity of Christ did not establish itself without much opposition, especially from the unlearned among the Christians, who thought that it savoured of Polytheism , that it was introduced by those who had had a philosophical education, and was by degrees adopted by others, on account of its covering the great offence of the cross , by exalting the personal dignity of our Saviour.

When ideas float in our mind, without any reflection or regard of the understanding, it is that which the French call reverie.

We should have a great fewer disputes in the world if words were taken for what they are, the signs of our ideas only, and not for things themselves.

In all the good Greek of Plato I lack my roastbeef and potato. A better man was Aristotle, Pulling steady on the bottle.

Systematic philosophical and practical anti-intellectualism such as we are witnessing appears to be something truly novel in the history of human culture.

Some friendships in life sustain themselves only at a particular life stage, products of some mutual developmental problem to be resolved together, or of some external circumstance, like being housed in the same dormitory in boarding school. Others grow out of a deeper spiritual and philosophical affinity, which continues throughout life.

Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is.

To endure is the first thing that a child ought to learn, and that which he will have the most need to know.

Philosophy is such an impertinently litigious lady that a man had as good be engaged in lawsuits as have to do with her.

What can I know? What ought I to do? What may I hope?

Scholars of the East and West have heroically consecrated their whole working lives to making available, by means of their own disciplines, Sufi literary and philosophical material to the world at large. In many cases they have faithfully recorded the Sufis' own reiteration that the Way of the Sufis cannot be understood by means of the intellect or by ordinary book learning.

Extreme remedies are very appropriate for extreme diseases.

You cannot step twice into the same river.

And I also see how this body influences external images: it gives back movement to them.