Philosophical Quotes

I am not by any means a philosopher, although I have worked with some talented people in the discipline. But certain philosophical concepts deeply inform the way I think about the world. The idea of 'opposing truths at extremes' is a powerful concept that I came to appreciate in my twenties. Joe Lonsdale
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Whenever a high-profile leader dies, people immediately attempt to summarize that person's life in a sentence. Often, critics and commentators get caught up looking at the leader's style, or which political or philosophical camp they represented. John C. Maxwell
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Governmental intervention and personal responsibility are not mutually exclusive issues, but they do frame a 'do it ourselves' vs. 'what are you doing for us' debate. For the black community, that's a debate that's been raging at least as far back as the W.E.B. Du Bois, Booker T. Washington philosophical grudge matches. John Ridley
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You get to say, 'Here's my philosophical idea about what the costume should like,' and the costume designer comes and gives you choices and sometimes they're all good, and I say, 'What do you think?' and they pick the right thing. John Sayles
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Our tools are extensions of our purposes, and so we find it natural to make metaphorical attributions of intentionality to them; but I take it no philosophical ice is cut by such examples. John Searle
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The only good reason to embrace a philosophical position is that you are convinced it is true or at least makes sense of the world better than the alternatives. Julian Baggini
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I don't feel proprietorial about the problems of philosophy. History has taught us that many philosophical issues can grow up, leave home and live elsewhere. Julian Baggini
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I don't really give into all that philosophical talks that 'money is not everything.' Kangana Ranaut
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The poetry of this one is called philosophical, of that one philological, of a third rhetorical, and so on. Which is then the poetic poetry? Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
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I consider early childhood events as most essential to a man's scientific and philosophical development. Konrad Lorenz
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And you finally get to a consensus, where you get a sense of what really ought to be done, and then they give it to me and then I draw it. I mean draw it in the sense, the philosophical sense. Lawrence Halprin
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It's not like I have this philosophical answer as to why I love rock. Lzzy Hale
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Osama bin Laden has managed to replace fear of God and adherence to the Quran with his philosophy of jihad above all else. What's behind that facade is the true philosophical intentions of al Qaeda: the establishment of a new Islamic caliphate that will defeat democracy as the greater of the two political orders. Malcolm Nance
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If a spectator with a philosophical mind, somebody accustomed to reading books, gets the same kind of information in a movie, he might not fully understand it. Manuel Puig
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A country's strategy is always based on a fundamental philosophical outlook. Marc Forne Molne
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We're not accustomed to judging things on philosophical importance. Mark Manson
Philosophical Importance Judging Accustomed Things
The universe, in a big bang mode, is still expanding, which means it's cooling down, and evolution seems to be going against this; we're almost battling it. That led me on to a more creative, philosophical way of thinking, which is what led into influencing some of the songs, which is, maybe this is what our struggle is. Matt Bellamy
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My mode as a writer is to layer different perspectives: the scientific, the philosophical, the political, the journalistic. When you layer them, you get a really wholesome, interesting picture. Michael Pollan
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Well, I don't like to get involved in these philosophical issues very much. Murray Gell-Mann
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For every philosophical idea about how we're going to do things, there has to be a plan to get there, and we have to be able to execute it, first in practice and then in games. Nick Nurse
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Anytime I have communicated with college-going people, fresh out of college, looking for a job - money is very important, that is just so important. What is not important is how do you plan to live your life or the larger picture. Not that I had such philosophical intentions when I was 18, but I think there was lesser importance for money. Nimrat Kaur
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The digitization of our society is a challenge that is both legislative and philosophical. Om Malik
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Some people try to get very philosophical and cerebral about what they're trying to say with jazz. You don't need any prologues, you just play. Oscar Peterson
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To philosophical materialists God is no more than an idea in the human mind, and not a very important idea. Phillip E. Johnson
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I don't read for plot, a story 'about' this or that. There must be some kind of philosophical depth rendered into the language, something happening. Rachel Kushner
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The philosophical question before us is, when we make an observation of our track in the past, does the result of our observation become real in the same sense that the final state would be defined if an outside observer were to make the observation? Richard P. Feynman
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