#philosophic

Compromise and tolerance are magic words. It took me 40 years to become philosophical. ↗

— Hedy Lamarr

#compromise #magic #me #philosophical #tolerance

Examples one finds in the philosophical literature are somebody who's seen the trial of a child of theirs, where they're being proved guilty of some crime that would drive the parent into a depression, maybe a suicidal depression. ↗

— Robert Nozick

#child #crime #depression #drive #examples

There are many of these apparent philosophical paradoxes or contradictions which don't concern me anymore. ↗

— Evan Parker

#apparent #concern #contradictions #many #me

I am not going to answer any questions as to my association, my philosophical or religious beliefs or my political beliefs, or how I voted in any election, or any of these private affairs. ↗

— Pete Seeger

#am #answer #any #association #beliefs

You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition; but to find your wife laughing when you had tears in your eyes, or staring when you were in a fit of laughter, would go some way towards a dissolution of the marriage. ↗

— Robert Louis Stevenson

#eyes #find #fit #follow #forgive

It is always incorrect to assume you can know what someone's moral convictions are based on their philosophical theories. ↗

— Stanley Fish

#assume #based #convictions #incorrect #know

Anyhow, a philosophical turn of thought now was not amiss, else one's patience would have given out almost at the harbour entrance. The term of her probation was eight days. ↗

— Joshua Slocum

#amiss #anyhow #days #eight #else

No evil being was ever wise: they are all against every wise man's critics. ↗

— A Gentlemen

#evil-jinn #evil-men #inspirational #philosophical #wise

Not that I wish by any means to deny, that the mental life of individuals and peoples is also in conformity with law, as is the object of philosophical, philological, historical, moral, and social sciences to establish. ↗

— Hermann von Helmholtz

#any #conformity #deny #establish #historical

Systematic philosophical and practical anti-intellectualism such as we are witnessing appears to be something truly novel in the history of human culture. ↗

— Johan Huizinga

#culture #history #human #human culture #novel