#phil

Nature is a book, a letter, a fairy tale (in the philosophical sense) or whatever you want to call it. ↗

— Johann Georg Hamann

#call #fairy #fairy tale #letter #nature

"Freedom from fear" could be said to sum up the whole philosophy of human rights. ↗

— Dag Hammarskjold

#could #fear #freedom from #human #human rights

I need just be a bayonet, a bayonet named Diving Punishment. I wish I'd been born a storm. Or a menace. Or a single grenade. No heart, no tears, just as a terrible gale'd have been good. If [by doing this] I become that, then so be it. ↗

— Kohta Hirano

#god-s-will #personification #philosophy #regret #religion

Any philosophy that can be put in a nutshell belongs there. ↗

— Sydney J. Harris

#belongs #nutshell #philosophy #put

'Truth Will Set U Free' is about honesty. My philosophic belief that ultimately being true to yourself is liberating, with every individual's inalienable right to be who they are without fear or recrimination. ↗

— Corey Hart

#being #belief #every #fear #free

Why are we here? Where do we come from? Traditionally, these are questions for philosophy, but philosophy is dead. ↗

— Stephen Hawking

#dead #here #philosophy #questions #these

Philosophers have not kept up with modern developments in science. Particularly physics. ↗

— Stephen Hawking

#kept #modern #particularly #philosophers #physics

The proverbial philosophy of a people helps us to understand more about them than any other kind of literature. ↗

— Lafcadio Hearn

#any #helps #kind #literature #more

I'm proud to be from Philadelphia. ↗

— Sherman Hemsley

#philadelphia #proud

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