#philosophic

The modern philosopher had told me again and again that I was in the right place, and I still felt depressed even in acquiescence. But I had heard that I was in the wrong place, and my soul sang for joy like a bird in spring. ↗

— G.K. Chesterton

#joy #philosophical

We have to make philosophy itself an object of philosophical concern. ↗

— Wilhelm Dilthey

#itself #make #object #philosophical #philosophy

To the extent that philosophical positions both confuse us and close doors to further inquiry, they are likely to be wrong. ↗

— E. O. Wilson

#close #confuse #doors #extent #further

All good performance pieces have some philosophical validity. That's the difference between mere theater and performance art. ↗

— Jack Bowman

#between #difference #good #mere #performance

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

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

I can't pretend that I'm a great student of the art of comedy because anybody that becomes philosophical about humour doesn't know what he's talking about. ↗

— Jackie Mason

#anybody #art #because #becomes #comedy

You know how much I am inclined to explain all disputes among philosophical schools as merely verbal disputes or at least to derive them originally from verbal disputes. ↗

— Moses Mendelssohn

#among #derive #disputes #explain #how

War is to man what maternity is to a woman. From a philosophical and doctrinal viewpoint, I do not believe in perpetual peace. ↗

— Benito Mussolini

#i #i do #man #maternity #peace