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