Philosophical Quotes - Page 53

Apple's Jony Ive describes his "fanatical" approach to design in new interview

Design is a word that's come to mean so much that it's also a word that has come to mean nothing.

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.

Very often design is the most immediate way of defining what products become in people's minds.

Fanaticism is the child of false zeal and of superstition, the father of intolerance and of persecution.

To do as one would be done by, and to love one's neighbour as oneself, constitute the ideal perfection of utilitarian morality

Good and evil, reward and punishment, are the only motives to a rational creature

A lot of people see doubt as legitimate philosophical posture. They think of themselves in the middle, whereas of course really, they're nowhere.

Mere poets are sottish as mere drunkards are, who live in a continual mist, without seeing or judging anything clearly. A man should be learned in several sciences, and should have a reasonable, philosophical and in some measure a mathematical head, to be a complete and excellent poet.

One may summon his philosophy when they are beaten in battle, not till then.

Nature is a book, a letter, a fairy tale (in the philosophical sense) or whatever you want to call it.

With all the weird surroundings of outer space the basic underlying theme of the show is a philosophical approach to man's relationship to woman. There are both sexes in the crew, in fact, the first officer is a woman.

A man who discovers his pants are on fire tends to have very little time to worry about somebody else's box of matches

I believe that my art gets across the point that I'm in this morality theater trying to help the underdog, and I'm speaking socially here, showing concern and making psychological and philosophical statements for the underdog.

Existence precedes and rules essence.

Ah! yes, I know: those who see me rarely trust my word: I must look too intelligent to keep it.

We pity in others only the those evils which we ourselves have experienced.

How many famous and high-spirited heroes have lived a day too long?

The happy and the suffering probably understand life equally well, but the sufferers may see a little more clearly how little it is that they understand.

The philosophical implication of race-thinking is that by offering us the mystery of heredity as an explanation, it diverts our attention from the social and intellectual factors that make up personality.

I am not ashamed to admit that I belong to those who fantasize that literature is capable of bringing new horizons and new perspectives--philosophical, religious, aesthetical and even social.

cruelty to animals is contrary to man's duty to himself, because it deadens in him the feeling of sympathy for their sufferings, and thus a natural tendency that is very useful to morality in relation to other human beings is weakened.

It is all too easy for a society to measure itself against some abstract philosophical principle or political slogan. But in the end, there must remain the question: What kind of life is one society providing to the people that live in it?

Everything flows and nothing stays.

Science remains the author of our major problem, in its gift of tremendous power that has been terribly abused; but for the wise use of this power we need more, not less, of the objective dispassionate scientific spirit. For our philosophical purposes we need more of its integrity and its basic humility, its respect at once for the fact and the mystery.