#philosophic

I got married because I fell in love with this woman. I had a baby with her because we wanted to have children. But that's not because of some philosophical ideal at all, no. ↗

— Ewan McGregor

#because #children #fell #got #had

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

I'm very educated and can give you somewhat of a vocabulary, but I don't get to the philosophical side. ↗

— Shaquille O'Neal

#get #give #i #philosophical #side

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

Liberty is the possibility of doubting, the possibility of making a mistake, the possibility of searching and experimenting, the possibility of saying No to any authority - literary, artistic, philosophic, religious, social and even political. ↗

— Ignazio Silone

#artistic #authority #doubting #even #experimenting

First would be the literary side, then the spiritual and philosophical. The political side is required principally because of the necessity of the current Russian position. ↗

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#current #first #literary #necessity #philosophical

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

Some major writers have a huge impact, like Ayn Rand, who to my mind is a lousy fiction writer because her writing has no compassion and virtually no humor. She has a philosophical and economical message that she is passing off as fiction, but it really isn't fiction at all. ↗

— Theodore Sturgeon

#ayn rand #because #compassion #economical #fiction

Philosophical theories or ideas, as points of view, instruments of criticism, may help us to gather up what might otherwise pass unregarded by us. ↗

— Walter Pater

#gather #help #ideas #instruments #may