In the philosophic sense, observation shows and experiment teaches.
Scientific and philosophic truth have parted company.
The mysteries of Nature and of humanity are not lessened, but increased, by the discoveries of philosophic skill.
I mistrust the satisfaction which makes a display of the possession of Infinity; that is called fatuity in philosophic terms.
What we need in literature today are vast philosophic horizons. . . we need the most ultimate, the most fearsome, the most fearless "Why?" and "What next?".
Modern Existentialism. . . is a total European creation, perhaps the last philosophic legacy of Europe to America or whatever other civilization is now on its way to supplant Europe.
Modern Americans travel light, with little philosophic baggage other than a fervent belief in their right to the pursuit of happiness.
I shall not fear to say that the doctrine of self-interest rightly understood seems to me of all the philosophic theories the most appropriate to the needs of men in our time, and that I see in it the most powerful guarantee against themselves that remains to them. The minds of the moralists of our day ought to turn, therefore, principally toward it. Even should they judge it imperfect, they would still have to adopt it as necessary.
Poets are being pursued by the philosophers today, out of the poverty of philosophy. God damn it, you might think a man had no business to be writing, to be a poet unless some philosophic stinker gave him permission.
All our scientific and philosophic ideals are altars to unknown gods.
Nothing is more vain than to seek to unite men by a philosophic minimum.
An attitude of philosophic doubt, of suspended judgment, is repugnant to the natural man. Belief is an independent joy to him.
A detective story generally describes six living men discussing how it is that a man is dead. A modern philosophic story generally describes six dead men discussing how any man can possibly be alive.
In years that bring the philosophic mind.
When philosophic reason is clear and certain by intuition or necessary induction, no subsequent revelation supported by prophecies or miracles can supersede it.
There will be some fundamental assumptions which adherents of all the variant systems within the epoch unconsciously presuppose. Such assumptions appear so obvious that people do not know what they are assuming because no other way of putting things has ever occurred to them. With these assumptions a certain limited number of types of philosophic systems are possible, and this group of systems constitutes the philosophy of the epoch.
It takes an unusually philosophic mind to accept that all one’s suffering might be to no end, really, in the larger scheme of things.
Good-humor is a philosophic state of mind; it seems to say to Nature that we take her no more seriously than she takes us. I maintain that one should always talk of philosophy with a smile.
For the religious the holy is truth, for the philosophic the truth is holy.
To a philosophic eye, the vices of the clergy are far less dangerous than their virtues.
