Philosophical Quotes - Page 45

Note that the eating of flesh is not only physically against nature, but it also makes us spiritually coarse and gross by reason of satiety and surfeit.

Man never legislates,but destinies and accidents,happening in all sorts of ways,legislate in all sorts of ways.

The good is the beautiful.

He who is not a good servant will not be a good master.

One of the characteristics of the university is that it is made up of professors who train professors, or professionals training professionals. Education was this no longer directed toward people who were to be educated with a view to become fully developed human beings, but to specialists, in other that they might learn how to train other specialists. This is the danger of "Scholasticism," that philosophical tendency which began to be sketched at the end of antiquity, developed in the Middle Ages, and whose presence is still recognizable in philosophy today.

If a specific question has meaning, it must be possible to find operations by which an answer may be given to it ... I believe that many of the questions asked about social and philosophical subjects will be found to be meaningless when examined from the point of view of operations.

Secular humanism does not have the essential attributes of a religion: belief in a deity, the wish for some sort of afterlife, sacred dogma or texts, or an absolutist moral creed. Instead, it expresses a philosophical and ethical point of view, and it draws upon the scientific method in formulationg its naturalistic view of the nature.

The best thing about the sciences is their philosophical ingredient, like life for an organic body. If one dephilosophizes the sciences, what remains left? Earth, air, and water.

A wise ruler ought never to keep faith when by doing so it would be against his interests.

Being a philosophical naturalist does not mean that one thinks that science can provide all of the answers. That is scientism and that is wrong. I don't think a billion buckets of science could speak to the problems raised by the Tea Party. Being a philosophical naturalist does not mean that one thinks that the only truths are those of science. I think the claim just made in the last sentence is true but I don't think it is a claim of science. It means that you use science where you can and you respect and try to emulate its standards.

The human body is essentially something other than an animal organism.

The philosophical anthropologist ... can know the wholeness of the person and through it the wholeness of man only when he does not leave his subjectivity out and does not remain an untouched observer.

I love to revel in philosophical matters-especially astronomy. I study astronomy more than any other foolishness there is. I am a perfect slave to it. I am at it all the time. I have got more smoked glass than clothes. I am as familiar with the stars as the comets are. I know all the facts and figures and have all the knowledge there is concerning them. I yelp astronomy like a sun-dog, and paw the constellations like Ursa Major.

Why do you climb philosophical hills? Because they are worth climbing . . . There are no hills to go down unless you start from the top.

Virtue is a habit of the mind, consistent with nature and moderation and reason.

For a tear is quickly dried, especially when shed for the misfortunes of others.

Though silence is not necessarily an admission, it is not a denial, either.

Honor is the reward of virtue.

Old age: the crown of life, our play's last act.

A friend is, as it were, a second self.

Cannot people realize how large an income is thrift?

The only excuse for war is that we may live in peace unharmed.

Orators are most vehement when their cause is weak.

The nobler a man, the harder it is for him to suspect inferiority in others.

Hatreds not vowed and concealed are to be feared more than those openly declared.