Philosophy
- Alchemical elements, the components of the universe, expressed in their Aristotelian forms as fire, earth, air, wood, and water
- Bhūta are five elements in Hinduism
- The Classical elements, the ancient belief about the fundamental types of matter (usually four in number)
- Five elements (Japanese philosophy), the basis of the universe according to Japanese philosophy
- Mahābhūta, Buddhist great elements
- Tattva, the basis of the universe according to Hindu Samkhya philosophy
- Wu Xing, sometimes translated as five elements, the basis of the universe according to Chinese Taoism
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Famous quotes containing the word philosophy:
“The proper method of philosophy consists in clearly conceiving the insoluble problems in all their insolubility and then in simply contemplating them, fixedly and tirelessly, year after year, without any hope, patiently waiting.”
—Simone Weil (1909–1943)
“My philosophy is such that I am not going to vote against the oppressed. I have been oppressed, and so I am always going to have a vote for the oppressed, regardless of whether that oppressed is black or white or yellow or the people of the Middle East, or what. I have that feeling.”
—Septima Clark (1898–1987)
“Frankly, I do not like the idea of conversations to define the term “unconditional surrender.” ... The German people can have dinned into their ears what I said in my Christmas Eve speech—in effect, that we have no thought of destroying the German people and that we want them to live through the generations like other European peoples on condition, of course, that they get rid of their present philosophy of conquest.”
—Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882–1945)