#philosophic

An attitude of philosophic doubt, of suspended judgment, is repugnant to the natural man. Belief is an independent joy to him. ↗

— William Minto

#belief #doubt #him #independent #joy

A country's strategy is always based on a fundamental philosophical outlook. ↗

— Marc Forne Molne

#based #country #fundamental #outlook #philosophical

Some people try to get very philosophical and cerebral about what they're trying to say with jazz. You don't need any prologues, you just play. ↗

— Oscar Peterson

#any #cerebral #get #jazz #just

The process of philosophic and scientific enlightenment has shaken the stability of beliefs held explicitly as articles of faith. ↗

— Michael Polanyi

#beliefs #enlightenment #explicitly #faith #held

If a spectator with a philosophical mind, somebody accustomed to reading books, gets the same kind of information in a movie, he might not fully understand it. ↗

— Manuel Puig

#books #fully #gets #information #kind

The sense of historical continuity, and a feeling for philosophical rectitude cannot, however, be compromised. ↗

— Herbert Read

#compromised #continuity #feeling #historical #however

The philosophic spirit of inquiry may be traced to brute curiosity, and that to the habit of examining all things in search of food. ↗

— William Winwood Reade

#brute #curiosity #examining #food #habit

I know no subject more elevating, more amazing, more ready to the poetical enthusiasm, the philosophical reflection, and the moral sentiment than the works of nature. Where can we meet such variety, such beauty, such magnificence? ↗

— James Thomson

#beauty #elevating #enthusiasm #i #know

Evolutionary naturalism takes the inherent limitations of science and turns them into a devastating philosophical weapon: because science is our only real way of knowing anything, what science cannot know cannot be real. ↗

— Phillip E. Johnson

#be real #because #cannot #devastating #evolutionary

To philosophical materialists God is no more than an idea in the human mind, and not a very important idea. ↗

— Phillip E. Johnson

#human #human mind #idea #important #materialists