#philosophic

The other thing I felt was that the philosophical concept behind the experiences also looked like it had been designed by technicians and not by entertainers. I felt I needed to grab hold of it and try and push the envelope as much as I possibly could right now. ↗

— Thomas Dolby

#been #behind #concept #could #designed

One of my favorite philosophical tenets is that people will agree with you only if they already agree with you. You do not change people's minds. ↗

— Frank Zappa

#already #change #favorite #minds #only

In the discovery of secret things and in the investigation of hidden causes, stronger reasons are obtained from sure experiments and demonstrated arguments than from probable conjectures and the opinions of philosophical speculators of the common sort. ↗

— William Gilbert

#common #conjectures #demonstrated #discovery #experiments

There is a class, moreover, by whom all these scientific theories, and more are held as ascertained facts, and as the basis of philosophical inferences which strike at the root of theistic beliefs. ↗

— Asa Gray

#basis #beliefs #class #facts #held

And what sort of philosophical doctrine is thi - that numbers confer unlimited rights, that they take from some persons all rights over themselves, and vest these rights in others. ↗

— Auberon Herbert

#doctrine #numbers #others #over #persons

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

— Fanny Burney

#despise #dispense #indeed #mankind #may

I can get very philosophical and ask the questions Keats was asking as a young guy. What are we here for? What's a soul? What's it all about? What is thinking about, imagination? ↗

— Jane Campion

#ask #asking #get #guy #here

Religion is more than life. Remember that his own religion is the truest to every man even if it stands low in the scales of philosophical comparison. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

#even #every #every man #his #life

If we are to take for the criterion of truth the majority of suffrages, they ought to be gotten from those philosophic and patriotic citizens who cultivate their reason. ↗

— James Madison

#criterion #cultivate #gotten #majority #ought

Let your eyes talk, mouth listens and ear sleeps. ↗

— Santosh Kalwar

#philosophical #funny