Quotes on Philosophical

...if we know God our knowledge of... everything will be brought to perfection, and, in so far as is possible, the infinite, divine and ineffable dwelling place (cf. Jn. 14:2) will be ours to enjoy. For this is what our sainted teacher said in his famous philosophical aphorism: 'Then we shall know as we are known' (I Cor. 13:12), when we mingle our god-formed mind and divine reason to what is properly its own and the image returns to the archetype for which it now longs.

Semiotics is a general theory of all existing languages... all forms of communication - visual, tactile, and so on... There is general semiotics, which is a philosophical approach to this field, and then there are many specific semiotics.

As a general rule, the longer a man's fame is likely to last, the later it will be in coming; for all excellent products require time for their development.

Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

Reading is equivalent to thinking with someone else's head instead of with one's own.

The greatest of follies is to sacrifice health for any other kind of happiness.

If literature isn't everything, it's not worth a single hour of someone's trouble.

Like all dreamers, I mistook disenchantment for truth.

Take the course opposite to custom and you will almost always do well.

Beloved, there are heights in experimental knowledge of the things of God that the eagles discerning eye and philosophical thought have never seen...God alone can take us there, but the chariot in which He takes us up and the fiery steeds that pull the chariot, are prevailing prayers.

The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt.

Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it.

The revolutionary spirit is mighty convenient in this, that it frees one from all scruples as regards ideas. Its hard absolute optimism is repulsive to my mind by the menace of fanaticism and intolerance it contains. No doubt one should smile at these things; but, imperfect Esthete, I am no better Philosopher. All claim to special righteousness awakens in me that scorn and anger from which a philosophical mind should be free.

It is necessary to understand that Black Power is a cry of disappointment. The Black Power slogan did not spring full grown from the head of some philosophical Zeus. It was born from the wounds of despair and disappointment. It is a cry of daily hurt and persistent pain.

At times one remains faithful to a cause only because its opponents do not cease to be insipid.

Faith is an oasis in the heart which will never be reached by the caravan of thinking.

See one promontory, one mountain, one sea, one river and see all.

I shall assume that your silence gives consent.

The envious person grows lean with the fatness of their neighbor.

No law or ordinance is mightier than understanding.

Then not only an old man, but also a drunkard, becomes a second time a child.