Philosophic

Famous quotes containing the word philosophic:

“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 (1751–1836)

“In the faith that looks through death,
In years that bring the philosophic mind.”
—William Wordsworth (1770–1850)

“I know that there are many persons to whom it seems derogatory to link a body of philosophic ideas to the social life and culture of their epoch. They seem to accept a dogma of immaculate conception of philosophical systems.”
—John Dewey (1859–1952)