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  • I am convinced that when Nietzsche came to Switzerland and went insane, it was not because of venereal disease, though he did have this disease. Rather, it was because he understood that insanity was the only philosophic answer if the infinite-personal God does not exist.

    Francis August Schaeffer (1976). “How should we then live?: the rise and decline of western thought and culture”, Good News Pub
  • Empirical sciences prosecuted purely for their own sake, and without philosophic tendency are like a face without eyes.

  • Liberty is the possibility of doubting, the possibility of making a mistake, the possibility of searching and experimenting, the possibility of saying No to any authority - literary, artistic, philosophic, religious, social and even political.

  • There is but one truly serious philosophical problem and that is suicide.

    Le Mythe de Sisyphe (The Myth of Sisyphus) "Absurdity and Suicide" (1942)
  • Recognition of the modes of existence of technical objects must be the result of philosophic consideration; what philosophy has to achieve in this respect is analogous to what the abolition of slavery achieved in affirming the worth of the individual human being.

    "On the Mode of Existence of Technical Objects". Book by Gilbert Simondon, University of Western Ontario, June 1980.
  • In years that bring the philosophic mind.

    'Ode. Intimations of Immortality' (1807) st. 10
  • I mistrust the satisfaction which makes a display of the possession of Infinity; that is called fatuity in philosophic terms.

    Edgar Quinet (1845). “Ultramontanism: Or, The Roman Church and Modern Society”, p.72
  • Once one is caught up into the material world not one person in ten thousand finds the time to form literary taste, to examine the validity of philosophic concepts for himself, or to form what, for lack of a better phrase, I might call the wise and tragic sense of life.

    Wise   World   Might  
    F. Scott Fitzgerald (2015). “Collected Letters of F. Scott Fitzgerald: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works”, p.166, e-artnow
  • Good humor is a philosophic state of mind; it seems to say to nature that we take her no more seriously than she takes us.

    Happiness   Joy   Mind  
  • The mysteries of Nature and of humanity are not lessened, but increased, by the discoveries of philosophic skill.

    Thomas Babington Macaulay, Thomas Noon Talfourd, James Stephen (1854). “Essays, Critical and Miscellaneous: Critical and miscellaneous writings”, p.77
  • Good-humor is a philosophic state of mind; it seems to say to Nature that we take her no more seriously than she takes us. I maintain that one should always talk of philosophy with a smile.

    William James (2015). “The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature”, p.16, Xist Publishing
  • Poets are being pursued by the philosophers today, out of the poverty of philosophy. God damn it, you might think a man had no business to be writing, to be a poet unless some philosophic stinker gave him permission.

    William Carlos Williams, John C. Thirlwall (1957). “The Selected Letters of William Carlos Williams”, p.219, New Directions Publishing
  • I should venture to assert that the most pervasive fallacy of philosophic thinking goes back to neglect of context.

    John Dewey, Jo Ann Boydston, Sidney Ratner (2008). “The Later Works of John Dewey, 1925 - 1953: 1931-1932, Essays, Reviews, and Miscellany”, p.5, SIU Press
  • When philosophic reason is clear and certain by intuition or necessary induction, no subsequent revelation supported by prophecies or miracles can supersede it.

    John Adams, Charles Francis Adams (1856). “The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations”, p.85
  • I think that one should view with philosophic admiration the strange paths of the libido and should investigate the purposes of its circuitous ways.

    Thinking   Views   Path  
    Carl Gustav Jung, Beatrice M. Hinkle (2003). “Psychology of the Unconscious”, p.73, Courier Corporation
  • Philo of Alexandria introduced in the first century what has been described as the 'Hellenizing of the Old Testament,' or the allegorical method of exegesis. By this, as Erdmann observes, the Bible narrative was found to contain a deeper, and particularly an allegorical interpretation, in addition to its literal interpretation; this was not conscious disingenuousness but a natural mode of amalgamating the Greek philosophic with the Hebraic doctrines.

  • The philosophic spirit of inquiry may be traced to brute curiosity, and that to the habit of examining all things in search of food. Artistic genius is an expansion of monkey imitativeness.

    William Winwood Reade (1874). “The Martyrdom of Man”, p.394
  • I think that fiction and, as I say, history and biography are immensely important, not only for their own sake, because they provide a picture of life now and of life in the past, but also as vehicles for the expression of general philosophic ideas, religious ideas, social ideas.

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

    May   Riches   Wealth  
    Fanny Burney (1850). “Evelina: or, The history of a young lady's introduction to the world”, p.130
  • We may say that hysteria is a caricature of an artistic creation, a compulsion neurosis a caricature of a religion, and a paranoiac delusion a caricature of a philosophic system.

    Sigmund Freud (2009). “Totem and Taboo”, p.96, Cosimo, Inc.
  • The philosophic aim of education must be to get each one out of his isolated class and into the one humanity.

  • Scientific and philosophic truth have parted company.

    Hannah Arendt (2013). “The Human Condition: Second Edition”, p.290, University of Chicago Press
  • As the highly colored birds do not fly around in the dull, leaden plains of a sandy desert, but amid all the settings of nature's leaves and blossoms, and lights and shades — nature's framework of their picture — so there are truths which do not appear well in arid fields of philosophic inquiry.

    Light   Air   Bird  
    "Motives of Life".
  • But how shall we excuse the supine inattention of the Pagan and philosophic world to those evidences which were presented by the hand of Omnipotence, not to their reason, but to their senses? During the age of Christ, of his apostles, and their first disciples, the doctrine which they preached was confirmed by innumerable prodigies. The lame walked, the blind saw, the sick were healed, the dead were raised, daemons were expelled, and the laws of Nature were frequently suspended for the benefit of the church.

    Hands   Law   Omnipotence  
    Edward Gibbon (1854). “The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, p.84
  • I know that there are many persons to whom it seems derogatory to link a body of philosophic ideas to the social life and cultureof their epoch. They seem to accept a dogma of immaculate conception of philosophical systems.

    John Dewey, Larry Hickman, Thomas M. Alexander (1998). “The Essential Dewey: Pragmatism, education, democracy”, p.214, Indiana University Press
  • The process of philosophic and scientific enlightenment has shaken the stability of beliefs held explicitly as articles of faith.

  • A declaration of the independence of America, and the sovereignty of the United STates was drawn by the ingenious and philosophic pen of Thomas Jefferson, Esquire, a delegate from the state of Virginia

  • 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 (2012). “Fahrenheit 451: A Novel”, p.211, Simon and Schuster
  • The adjective "political" in "political philosophy" designates not so much the subject matter as a manner of treatment; from this point of view, I say, "political philosophy" means primarily not the philosophic study of politics, but the political, or popular, treatment of philosophy, or the political introduction to philosophy the attempt to lead qualified citizens, or rather their qualified sons, from the political life to the philosophic life.

    Philosophy   Mean   Son  
    "What is Political Philosophy?". Book by Leo Strauss, 1959.
  • The great experimental principle, then, is doubt, that philosophic doubt which leaves to the mind its freedom and initiative, and from which the virtues most valuable to investigators in physiology and medicine are derived.

    Claude Bernard “Experimental Medicine”, Transaction Publishers
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