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There is little of the true philosophic spirit in Aquinas. He does not, like the Platonic Socrates, set out to follow wherever the argument may lead. — Bertrand Russell

Never be led astray by those philosophic fools who preach up an impersonal God. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

To despise riches, may, indeed, be philosophic, but to dispense them worthily, surely, must be more beneficial to mankind. — Fanny Burney

Philosophic meditation is an accomplishment by which I attain Being and my own self, not impartial thinking which studies a subject with indifference. — Karl Jaspers

I think that one should view with philosophic admiration the strange paths of the libido and should investigate the purposes of its circuitous ways. — Carl Jung

Clothes sometimes gave one more of a lift than any philosophic comforting. — Erich Maria Remarque

Modern Americans travel light, with little philosophic baggage other than a fervent belief in their right to the pursuit of happiness. — George Will

He was at the stage of a meal when one becomes philosophic. — Agatha Christie

Philosophic questions are attempts to understand the root nature of reality, existence, and knowledge. — Kilroy J. Oldster

Rightly viewed no meanest object is insignificant; all objects are as windows through which the philosophic eye looks into infinitude itself. — Thomas Carlyle

To reflect the entire spectrum, the dynamics of the adventure novel must be invested with a philosophic synthesis of one kind or another. — Yevgeny Zamyatin

The third principle is that any philosophic knowledge is only valuable if it is true or if it works. — L. Ron Hubbard

An attitude of philosophic doubt, of suspended judgment, is repugnant to the natural man. Belief is an independent joy to him. — William Minto

Life is going to beat you up, it wouldn't be fair if you didn't throw some punches back at it — Bradley Bowman

The philosophic spirit of inquiry may be traced to brute curiosity, and that to the habit of examining all things in search of food. — William Winwood Reade

Digression is the soul of wit. Take the philosophic asides away from Dante, Milton or Hamlet's father's ghost and what stays is dry bones. — Ray Bradbury

The philosophic aim of education must be to get each one out of his isolated class and into the one humanity. — Paul Goodman

As far as I am concerned, philosophic questioning is just as likely to make you confused and depressed as it is to improve your condition. — Christopher Paolini

Things have their roots and branches. Affairs have their beginnings and their ends. To know what is first and what is last will lead one near the Way. — Confucius

Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck. — Immanuel Kant

The process of philosophic and scientific enlightenment has shaken the stability of beliefs held explicitly as articles of faith. — Michael Polanyi

If a philosophic theory is once ruled out of court, no one can tell when it will appear again. — Morris Raphael Cohen

Nothing is more vain than to seek to unite men by a philosophic minimum. — Jacques Maritain

Scientific and philosophic truth have parted company. — Hannah Arendt

To a philosophic eye, the vices of the clergy are far less dangerous than their virtues. — Edward Gibbon

And how do I know that the hate of death is not like a man who has lost his home when young and does not know where his home is to return to? — Zhuangzi

Every dogma, every philosophic or theological creed, was at its inception a statement in terms of the intellect of a certain inner experience. — Felix Adler

Philosophic concepts are a form of sentiment. Conflicts between lofty ideas and vouchsafed values are endemic for any thinking person. — Kilroy J. Oldster

The courage of the truth is the first condition of philosophic study. — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

It takes an unusually philosophic mind to accept that all one's suffering might be to no end, really, in the larger scheme of things. — Ian C. Esslemont

Actually we do everything we can, whether it is in a philosophic sense or a practical sense, to put ourselves at the center of the universe. — Francis A. Schaeffer

We believe that the materials and the stories taken from the raw can be finer (more real in the philosophic sense) than the acted article. — John Grierson

In the philosophic sense, observation shows and experiment teaches. — Claude Bernard

Empirical sciences prosecuted purely for their own sake, and without philosophic tendency are like a face without eyes. — Arthur Schopenhauer

Philosophy begins in wonder. And at the end when philosophic thought has done its best the wonder remains. — Alfred North Whitehead

Paul Brunton's Notebooks are a veritable treasure-trove of philosophic-spiritual wisdom. — Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

All our scientific and philosophic ideals are altars to unknown gods. — William James

I should venture to assert that the most pervasive fallacy of philosophic thinking goes back to neglect of context. — John Dewey

The well taught philosophic mind To all compassion gives; Casts round the world an equal eye, And feels for all that lives. — Anna Letitia Barbauld

I mistrust the satisfaction which makes a display of the possession of Infinity; that is called fatuity in philosophic terms. — Edgar Quinet

Statism and the advocacy of reason are philosophical opposites. They cannot coexist - neither in a philosophic system nor in a nation. — Leonard Peikoff

The mysteries of Nature and of humanity are not lessened, but increased, by the discoveries of philosophic skill. — Thomas Noon Talfourd

So the nature required to make a really noble Guardian of our commonwealth will be swift and strong, spirited, and philosophic. — Plato