Quotes on Philosophical

Fine. Since the tea is not forthcoming, let's have a philosophical conversation.

Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason.

Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.

Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.

Two things awe me most, the starry sky above me and the moral law within me.

I believe in political solutions to political problems. But man's primary problems aren't political; they're philosophical. Until humans can solve their philosophical problems, they're condemned to solve their political problems over and over and over again. It's a cruel, repetitious bore.

The question of love is one that cannot be evaded. Whether or not you claim to be interested in it from the moment you are alive you are bound to be concerned with love because love is not just something that happens to you: It is a certain special way of being alive. Love is in fact an intensification of life a completeness a fullness a wholeness of life.

Having power is not nearly as important as what you choose to do with it.

These dreams reminded me that, since I wished some day to become a writer, it was high time to decide what sort of books I was going to write. But as soon as I asked myself the question, and tried to discover some subject to which I could impart a philosophical significance of infinite value, my mind would stop like a clock, my consciousness would be faced with a blank, I would feel either that I was wholly devoid of talent or perhaps that some malady of the brain was hindering its development.

With which stars do they go on speaking,the rivers that never reach the sea?

If you thought you were trying to find out more about it because you're gonna get an answer to some deep philosophical question...you may be wrong! It may be that you can't get an answer to that particular question by finding out more about the character of nature. But my interest in science is to simply find out about the world.

The zipper displaces the button and a man lacks just that much time to think while dressing at dawn, a philosophical hour, and thus a melancholy hour.

The history of philosophy is to a great extent that of a certain clash of human temperaments.

The greatest enemy of any one of our truths may be the rest of our truths.

We are doomed to cling to a life even while we find it unendurable.

Our faith is faith in someone else's faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case.

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.

An idea, to be suggestive, must come to the individual with the force of revelation.

The essence of genius is to know what to overlook.

The sovereign cure for worry is prayer.

Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.