#phil

In writing the history of a disease, every philosophical hypothesis whatsoever, that has previously occupied the mind of the author, should lie in abeyance. ↗

— Thomas Sydenham

#disease #every #history #hypothesis #lie

My father's family came from Virginia and Philadelphia. He wasn't a brother who talked a lot. He was a workingman, a quiet, blue-collar dude. ↗

— Ice T

#brother #came #dude #family #father

Every life has a destiny... the trick is to discover it before then end of your life. Otherwise, you will have too many regrets. ↗

— Kevin J. Anderson

#life #philosophy #religion #wisdom #life

I don't believe in quotas. America was founded on a philosophy of individual rights, not group rights. ↗

— Clarence Thomas

#believe #founded #group #i #individual

After the first exams, I switched to the Faculty of Philosophy and studied Zoology in Munich and Vienna. ↗

— Karl von Frisch

#exams #faculty #first #i #munich

The winding down of summer puts me in a heavy philosophical mood. ↗

— Robert Fulghum

#heavy #me #mood #philosophical #puts

To my mind, the best SF addresses itself to problems of the here and now, or even to problems which have never been solved and never will be solved - I'm thinking of Philip K. Dick's work here, dealing with questions of reality, for example. ↗

— John Sladek

#best #dealing #even #example #for example

We don't have a trillion-dollar debt because we haven't taxed enough; we have a trillion-dollar debt because we spend too much. ↗

— Ronald Reagan

#fiscal-policy #national-debt #political-philosophy #scope-of-government #political

Know thyself? If I knew myself, I'd run away. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#running

Perhaps life is just that...a dream and a fear. ↗

— Joseph Conrad

#fear #life #philosophy #dreams