philosophical idea Quotes

Freedom is the recognition of necessity

That deep emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God.

There also appears to be another element in the soul, which, though irrational, yet in a manner participates in rational principle.

The self is the modern substitute for the soul.

This idea that there is generality in the specific is of far-reaching importance.

Becoming is the mode of activity of the uncreate deity.

You get to say, 'Here's my philosophical idea about what the costume should like,' and the costume designer comes and gives you choices and sometimes they're all good, and I say, 'What do you think?' and they pick the right thing.

And Thought leapt out to wed with Thought Ere Thought could wed itself with Speech.

Life is simply the reification of the process of living.

The existentialist says at once that man is anguish.

Each of the parts of philosophy is a philosophical whole, a circle rounded and complete in itself. In each of these parts, however, the philosophical Idea is found in a particular specificality or medium. The single circle, because it is a real totality, bursts through the limits imposed by its special medium, and gives rise to a wider circle. The whole of philosophy in this way resembles a circle of circles. The Idea appears in each single circle, but, at the same time, the whole Idea is constituted by the system of these peculiar phases, and each is a necessary member of the organisation.

There is no one idea of India, but ideas of India.

Freedom has no history.

Why don't you think of [God] as the one who is coming, who has been approaching from all eternity... the ultimate fruit of a tree whose leaves we are.

The idea of a universal mind or Logos would be, I think, a fairly plausible inference from the present state of scientific theory.

Just because something is a metaphor doesn't mean it can't be real.

For Emily Dickinson every philosophical idea was a potential lover. Metaphysics is the realm of eternal seduction of the spirit by ideas.

Time is only an idea. There is only the Reality. Whatever you think it is, it looks like that.

A thought is a thing as real as a cannonball.

"Lurking" is one metaphor that the Omniscience has allowed us to borrow.

So, to detract from the perfection of creatures is to detract from the perfection of divine power.

For every philosophical idea about how we're going to do things, there has to be a plan to get there, and we have to be able to execute it, first in practice and then in games.

The idea does not belong to the soul; it is the soul that belongs to the idea.

In recent times, more and more human thinking has come to assume that the idea of a universal natural law and the idea of 'God' are pointing to one and the same reality.

God is only a great imaginative experience.