Philosophy Quotes

And the political system is changing rapidly in this country, and we better realize that. The elephants or donkeys are not what younger people look to. They look at individual candidates' philosophy, and I think it's a different time and a different generation.

I enjoy getting things done. My philosophy is the edge, the edge of something. There's where we have to go in local government, in not only the philosophy but the creativity in people around you. They have to go to the edge.

You need at least six or seven years to understand the philosophy and concentration of karate to know to clean your spirit of everything and dedicate your mind and body to the sport.

Before Vatican II, in theology, as in other areas, the discipline was fixed. After the council there has been a revolution - a chaotic revolution - with free discussion on everything. There is now no common theology or philosophy as there was before.

Rome should sometimes intervene and say this or that is not in conformity with the Catholic faith. Theologians should understand that. Some theologians go too far, for example, reducing the Catholic faith to a universal philosophy.

I decided to teach because I think that any person who studies philosophy has to be involved actively.

Here's the thing with me and the religious thing. This is the flat-out truth: I find the religiosity and philosophy in the music. I don't find it anywhere else.

The study of history and philosophy, accompanied by some acquaintance with art and literature, should be for lawyers and engineers as well as for those who study in arts faculties.

As a scholar I am interested in the philosophy of language, semiotics, call it what you want, and one of the main features of the human language is the possibility of lying.

But human experience is usually paradoxical, that means incongruous with the phrases of current talk or even current philosophy.

In philosophy, it is not the attainment of the goal that matters, it is the things that are met with by the way.

All philosophy lies in two words, sustain and abstain.

The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.

The philosophy behind much advertising is based on the old observation that every man is really two men - the man he is and the man he wants to be.

Like the winds that we come we know not whence and blow whither soever they list, the forces of society are derived from an obscure and distant origin. They arise before the date of philosophy, from the instincts, not the speculations of men.

I would not say that I was, these days, a 'student' of philosophy, although in my youth I was quite deeply involved with certain aspects of the British pragmatists.

I was born Muslim, but for a large part of my life, I wasn't necessarily raised Muslim. My father always kept everything around us, from Western philosophy to Eastern philosophy.

What sort of philosophy one chooses depends on what sort of person one is.

By philosophy the mind of man comes to itself, and from henceforth rests on itself without foreign aid, and is completely master of itself, as the dancer of his feet, or the boxer of his hands.

The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.

Art requires philosophy, just as philosophy requires art. Otherwise, what would become of beauty?

Religion deals in certainties and philosophy deals more in un-answered questions.

Why are we here? Where do we come from? Traditionally, these are questions for philosophy, but philosophy is dead.

Religions do a useful thing: they narrow God to the limits of man. Philosophy replies by doing a necessary thing: it elevates man to the plane of God.

In praising science, it does not follow that we must adopt the very poor philosophies which scientific men have constructed. In philosophy they have much more to learn than to teach.

The object of studying philosophy is to know one's own mind, not other people's.

To become a popular religion, it is only necessary for a superstition to enslave a philosophy.

There is no religion in which everyday life is not considered a prison; there is no philosophy or ideology that does not think that we live in alienation.

Words, without power, is mere philosophy.

Religion and philosophy, philosophy and religion - they're two words which are both... different. In spelling.

The word philosophy sounds high-minded, but it simply means the love of wisdom. If you love something, you don't just read about it; you hug it, you mess with it, you play with it, you argue with it.

It is absolutely bedrock to the British Army's philosophy that a commanding officer is responsible for what goes on within his command.

I have no philosophy, my favourite thing is sitting in the studio.

True philanthropy requires a disruptive mindset, innovative thinking and a philosophy driven by entrepreneurial insights and creative opportunities.

Contradiction was something I really like when it is embraced in that kind of philosophy.

Our whole philosophy is one of transparency.

As a universal history of philosophy, the history of philosophy must become one great unity.

At the present moment, the security of coherent philosophy, which existed from Parmenides to Hegel, is lost.

Philosophy as practice does not mean its restriction to utility or applicability, that is, to what serves morality or produces serenity of soul.

Philosophy can only be approached with the most concrete comprehension.

Philosophy is tested and characterised by the way in which it appropriates its history.

The great philosophers and the great works are standards for the selection of what is essential. Everything that we do in studying the history of philosophy ultimately serves their better understanding.

You must remember, my own philosophy is that you don't belong only to yourself. You have an obligation to the society which protected you when you were brought into the world, which taught you, which supported you and nurtured you. You have an obligation to repay it.

There is no heresy or no philosophy which is so abhorrent to the church as a human being.

People who decide they came to earth to work, who make work their personal philosophy, are kept very busy.

You do what you have to do in life, when you form a philosophy that you can't talk yourself out of.

I was a philosophy major as an undergraduate, and I'm just an arrogant little thing. It's hard for me to admit that I can't understand something, let alone not be in charge of it.

Philosophy will clip an angel's wings.

Marriage is a team effort. Both of us share that philosophy.

I'm working harder than ever now, and I'm putting on my pants the same as I always have. I just get up every day and try to do a little better than the day before, and that is to run a great restaurant with great food, great wine, and great service. That's my philosophy.

Philosophy of science without history of science is empty; history of science without philosophy of science is blind.

I bought some books in order to learn the first principles of philosophy.

Whatever science and philosophy may do for mankind, the world can never outgrow its need of the simplicity that is in Christ.

It is a great advantage for a system of philosophy to be substantially true.

I like to play cards. I'm not very good, because I don't want to calculate, I just play by instinct. But I've learned a lot of business philosophy by playing poker.

To sum up the whole, we should say that the aim of the Platonic philosophy was to exalt man into a god.

We have no firm hold on any knowledge or philosophy that can lift us out of our difficulties.

Philosophy is common sense with big words.

The basic drive behind real philosophy is curiosity about the world, not interest in the writings of philosophers.

The Copernican revolution brought about by Kant was, I think, the most important single turning point in the history of philosophy.

There is no philosophy without the art of ignoring objections.

Greek philosophy seems to have met with something with which a good tragedy is not supposed to meet, namely, a dull ending.

Any genuine philosophy leads to action and from action back again to wonder, to the enduring fact of mystery.

I set forth a humble and inglorious life; that does not matter. You can tie up all moral philosophy with a common and private life just as well as with a life of richer stuff. Each man bears the entire form of man's estate.

My philosophy in life, where I was trying to get, could have been a little bit different.

We must strive to encourage East and West not only to move towards each other but also to encourage them to find a new philosophy, a philosophy which will serve as a tool determining the future of Planet Earth - our common and only shelter.

I took all the philosophy courses I could.

Well, I think that Augusta is not the same golf course that I grew up on. Bobby Jones' philosophy was giving you space off the tee; if you put it in the right side of the fairway, you ended up getting the right angle to the green.

There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy.

We do not learn by inference and deduction and the application of mathematics to philosophy, but by direct intercourse and sympathy.

Philosophy is properly home-sickness; the wish to be everywhere at home.

We said we would leave no stone unturned to get to Germany and now we are applying the same philosophy towards our tournament preparations.

People think the free market is a philosophy, they think that it is a creed. It is none of those things. Free market is a bathroom scale, it is a measuring tape, it's simply a measurement.

Our whole philosophy was to intimidate the quarterback. We were able to do it. We were pioneers. People still recognize us as, maybe, the best defensive line of all time.

I discovered philosophy in my youth when I read 'wildly,' and thus I was exposed to the world of ideas.