Best philosophical & eye Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“No notice is taken of a little evil, but when it increases it strikes the eye.”

Littles Eye Evil Taken Increase Philosophical Strikes Wickedness Good Against Evil

Source: Politics

“As a painter, cursed or blessed with a terrible and vital sensuousness, I must look for wisdom with my eyes. I repeat, with my eyes, for nothing could be more ridiculous or irrelevant than a 'philosophical conception painted purely intellectually without the terrible fury of the senses grasping each visible form of beauty and ugliness.”

Looks Eye Form Terrible Philosophical Blessed Ridiculous Senses Painter Repeats Visible Conception Irrelevant Ugliness Fury Cursed Grasping

Book:Max Beckmann in exile

Source: Max Beckmann in exile

“In the case of all other sciences, arts, skills, and crafts, everyone is convinced that a complex and laborious programme of learning and practice is necessary for competence. Yet when it comes to philosophy, there seems to be a currently prevailing prejudice to the effect that, although not everyone who has eyes and fingers, and is given leather and last, is at once in a position to make shoes, everyone nevertheless immediately understands how to philosophize.”

Source: Phenomenology of Spirit

“Who can blind lover's eyes?”

Eye Lovers Philosophical Blind

Author:Virgil

“My first degree was in mathematics. That was great, but it didn't help with many of the things that puzzled me. I became a philosopher because I wanted to understand everything, especially those things that didn't make sense. And that has continued to be my philosophical motivation. That's one reason I have such a roving philosophical eye - once I have figured out a philosophical topic to my satisfaction, I find myself moving on to new problems.”

Firsts Reason Helping Problem Eye Wanted Moving Motivation Degrees Philosophical Mathematics Philosopher Satisfaction Make Sense Topics Puzzled Roving

Author:David Papineau

“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.”

People Way Eye Marriage Laughing Wife Tears Fit Laughter Philosophical Forgiving Staring Dissolution Tears In Your Eyes

Book:Memories, Portraits, Essays and Records (Annotated Edition)

Source: Memories, Portraits, Essays and Records (Annotated Edition)

“In the sort of screen dappled with different states of mind which my consciousness would simultaneously unfold while I read, and which ranged from the aspirations hidden deepest within me to the completely exterior vision of the horizon which I had, at the bottom of the garden, before my eyes, what was first in me, innermost, the constantly moving handle that controlled the rest, was my belief in the philosophical richness and beauty of the book I was reading, and my desire to appropriate them for myself, whatever that book might be.”

“Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects.”

Inspirational Eye Objects Weak Philosophical

Book:The Works of Thomas Carlyle: Critical and miscellaneous essays

Source: The Works of Thomas Carlyle: Critical and miscellaneous essays

“Truth is a torch but a tremendous one. That is why we hurry past it, shielding our eyes, indeed, in fear of getting burned.”

Eye Truth Past Lying Fear Truth Is Philosophical Burned Torches

Book:Goethe's world view: presented in his reflections and maxims

Source: Goethe's world view: presented in his reflections and maxims

“You swore you'd never compromise With the mystery tramp, but now you realise He's not selling any alibis As you stare into the vacuum of his eyes And say, do you want to make a deal How does it feel”

Want Feels Doe Eye Deals Mystery Philosophical Selling Compromise Staring His Eyes Realising Vacuums Tramps Never Compromise Alibis

Author:Bob Dylan

“And I entered and beheld with the eye of my soul... the Light Unchangeable... He that knows the Truth, knows what that Light is; and he that knows It, knows Eternity.”

Knows Soul Light Eye Eternity Philosophical My Soul Unchangeable

Book:The Confessions of St. Augustine

Source: The Confessions of St. Augustine

“Nothing appears more surprising to those, who consider human affairs with a philosophical eye, than the easiness with which the many are governed by the few; and the implicit submission, with which men resign their own sentiments and passions to those of their rulers.”

Men Humans Government Eye Passion Philosophical Affair Sentiments Surprising Rulers Submission Implicit Easiness

Book:Moral and Political Philosophy

Source: Moral and Political Philosophy

“The eyes of the soul of the multitudes are unable to endure the vision of the divine.”

Soul Eye Vision Divine Philosophical Endure Multitudes Human Soul

Author:Plato

“I welcome this chance to further strengthen the unbreakable ties between the United States and Israel and to assure you of our commitment to Israel's security and well-being. Israel and America may be thousands of miles apart, but we are philosophical neighbors sharing a strong commitment to democracy and the rule of law. What we hold in common are the bonds of trust and friendship, qualities that in our eyes make Israel a great nation. No people have fought longer, struggled harder, or sacrificed more than yours in order to survive, to grow, and to live in freedom”

“Because Christian morality leaves animals out of account, they are at once outlawed in philosophical morals; they are mere 'things,' mere means to any ends whatsoever. They can therefore be used for vivisection, hunting, coursing, bullfights, and horse racing, and can be whipped to death as they struggle along with heavy carts of stone. Shame on such a morality that is worthy of pariahs, and that fails to recognize the eternal essence that exists in every living thing, and shines forth with inscrutable significance from all eyes that see the sun!”

“Beloved, there are heights in experimental knowledge of the things of God that the eagles discerning eye and philosophical thought have never seen...God alone can take us there, but the chariot in which He takes us up and the fiery steeds that pull the chariot, are prevailing prayers.”

Eye Prayer Philosophical Beloved Height Eagles Fiery Prevailing Discerning Chariots Prevailing Prayer

Author:Charles Spurgeon

“There is no doubt that healthy-mindedness is inadequate as a philosophical doctrine, because the evil facts which it refuses positively to account for are a genuine portion of reality; and they may after all be the best key to life's significance, and possibly the only openers of our eyes to the deepest levels of truth.”

May Facts Reality Eye Evil Levels Doubt Keys Healthy Accounts Philosophical Refuse Genuine Doctrine No Doubt Being The Best Significance Portions Existential Positively Inadequate

Book:The William James Reader

Source: The William James Reader

“He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.”

Source: Einstein on Politics: His Private Thoughts and Public Stands on Nationalism, Zionism, War, Peace, and the Bomb

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