#philosophic

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

To be a philosophical sceptic is, in a man of letters, the first and most essential to being a sound, believing Christian. ↗

— David Hume

#believing #christian #essential #first #letters

I have often regretted my speech, never my silence. ↗

— Simonides

#philosophical

My concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#philosophical #politics #religion #religious #inspirational

The world begins anew with every birth, my father used to say. He forgot to say, with every death it ends. Or did not think he needed to. Because for a goodly part of his life he worked in a graveyard. ↗

— Sebastian Barry

#death #life #philosophical #thoughts #death

I can get very philosophical and ask the questions Keats was asking as a young guy. What are we here for? What's a soul? What's it all about? What is thinking about, imagination? ↗

— Jane Campion

#ask #asking #get #guy #here

I'm a natural piano player. So all the practicing I do at this point is in my head. If I don't play for a year, my chops aren't going to get any worse. I've spent my time playing scales, and I don't necessarily want to play any faster than I play. So everything I do at this point is more philosophical. ↗

— Harry Connick, Jr.

#chops #everything #faster #get #going

Religion is more than life. Remember that his own religion is the truest to every man even if it stands low in the scales of philosophical comparison. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

#even #every #every man #his #life

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

Well, I don't like to get involved in these philosophical issues very much. ↗

— Murray Gell-Mann

#i #involved #issues #like #much