Best philosophical & force Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Philosophical problems can be compared to locks on safes, which can be opened by dialing a certain word or number, so that no force can open the door until just this word has been hit upon, and once it is hit upon any child can open it.”

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Book:Philosophical Occasions, 1912-1951

Source: Philosophical Occasions, 1912-1951

“However much the creationist leaders might hammer away at their scientific and philosophical points, they would be helpless and a laughing-stock if that were all they had. It is religion that recruits their squadrons. Tens of millions of Americans, who neither know nor understand the actual arguments for - of even against - evolution, march in the army of the night, their Bibles held high. And they are a strong and frightening force, impervious to, and immunized against, the feeble lance of mere reason.”

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Author:Isaac Asimov

“I have presented principles of philosophy that are not, however, philosophical but strictly mathematical-that is, those on which the study of philosophy can be based. These principles are the laws and conditions of motions and of forces, which especially relate to philosophy.”

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Book:The Principia: Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy

Source: The Principia: Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy

“I'm not a sociologist, and the novel has often concerned itself with sociology. It's one of the generating forces that's made fiction interesting to people. But that's not my concern. I'm interested in psychology. And also certain philosophical questions about the world.”

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Author:Jonathan Lethem

“A man cannot lay down the right of resisting them that assault him by force, to take away his life.”

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Book:Leviathan

Source: Leviathan

“That one body may act upon another at a distance through a vacuum, without the mediation of any thing else, by and through which their action and force may be conveyed from one to another, is to me so great an absurdity, that I believe no man, who has in philosophical matters a compentent faculty of thinking, can ever fall into it.”

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Book:Sir Isaac Newton's Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy and His System of the World

Source: Sir Isaac Newton's Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy and His System of the World

“A pleasant natural environment is a good - a luxury good, philosophical good, a moral goody-good, a good time for all. Whatever, we want it. If we want something, we should pay for it, with our labor or our cash. We shouldn't beg it, steal it, sit around wishing for it, or euchre the government into taking it by force.”

Source: All the Trouble in the World: The Lighter Side of Overpopulation, Famine, Ecological Disaster, Ethnic Hatred, Plague, and Poverty

“An idea, to be suggestive, must come to the individual with the force of revelation.”

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Author:William James

“When the religious principles, like the philosophical, are translated into reality, sometimes the reality forces violence on you, and there is no escape from it, and then I don't think it's something you should try to hide your face from.”

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Author:Pierre Trudeau

“Tardiness often robs us opportunity, and the dispatch of our forces.”

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Author:Niccolo Machiavelli

“Force does not constitute right... obedience is due only to legitimate powers.”

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Author:Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“Freedom is a man's natural power of doing what he pleases, so far as he is not prevented by force or law.”

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Author:Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Conquering others requires force. Conquering oneself requires strength”

“We are so far from knowing all the forces of nature and their various modes of action that it would be unworthy of the philosopher to deny phenomena simply because they are inexplicable at the present state of our knowledge. The more difficult it is to acknowledge their existence, the greater the care with which we must study these phenomena.”

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Author:Pierre-Simon Laplace

“The terminology of philosophical art is coercive: arguments are powerful and best when they are knockdown, arguments force you to a conclusion, if you believe the premisses you have to or must believe the conclusion, some arguments do not carry much punch, and so forth. A philosophical argument is an attempt to get someone to believe something, whether he wants to beleive it or not. A successful philosophical argument, a strong argument, forces someone to a belief.”

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Book:Philosophical Explanations

Source: Philosophical Explanations

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