Top 100 Philosophy Is Quotes: Famous Quotes & Sayings About Philosophy Is

#1. The final philosophy is the ontology of God.

#2. Philosophy aims at the logical clarification of thoughts. Philosophy is not a body of doctrine but an activity. A philosophical work consists essentially of elucidations.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

#3. My philosophy is based on the principle of self-ownership. You own your life. To deny this is to imply that another person has a higher claim on your life than you do. No other person, or group of persons, owns your life nor do you own the lives of others.

Ken Schoolland

#4. Philosophy is regarded by many as inseparable from speculation ... Philosophy has proceeded from speculation to science.

Hans Reichenbach

#5. Philosophy is not one truth, but thousands of truths. You don't have to believe in just one thing. When you chose one idea, you close yourself to the rest.

Marcel Wanders

#6. My philosophy is that everything starts with a great product.

Steve Jobs

#7. The deepest level of truth uncovered by science, & by philosophy, is the fundamental truth of unity. At that deepest subnuclear level of our reality, you & i are literally one.

John Hagelin

#8. The history of philosophy is to a great extent that of a certain clash of human temperaments.

William James

#9. Philosophy is nothing but discretion.

John Selden

#10. Moderation is based on the idea that things do not fit neatly together. Politics is likely to be a competition between legitimate opposing interests. Philosophy is likely to be a tension between competing half truths. A personality is likely to be a battleground of valuable but incompatible traits.

David Brooks

#11. Since philosophy is the art which teaches us how to live, and since children need to learn it as much as we do at other ages, why do we not instruct them in it?

Michel De Montaigne

#12. My philosophy is: Life is hard, but God is good. Try not to confuse the two.

Anne F. Beiler

#13. The Purpose of Philosophy is to fall in Love. To strip the world of all its clothes, and fall in Love with it as it stand before you completely naked.

Ilyas Kassam

#14. Philosophy is the childhood of the intellect, and a culture that tries to skip it will never grow up.

Thomas Nagel

#15. My philosophy is the thicker the wood the thicker the sound, the bigger the string the bigger the sound. My smallest string is a 14 gauge.

Dick Dale

#16. My own philosophy is life is not what you make it, but what you make of itl

James Lawless

#17. My philosophy is that, in life, you have to want something. If you just say "la-la-la" and go through life without a goal, nothing will happen.

Heidi Klum

#18. The sole remaining task for philosophy is the analysis of language.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

#19. There is, as we know, a philosophy which denies the infinite. There is also a philosophy, pathologically classified, which denies the sun; this philosophy is called blindness.

Victor Hugo

#20. My philosophy is that I'm an artist. I perform an art not with a paint brush or a camera. I perform with bodily movement. Instead of exhibiting my art in a museum or a book or on canvas, I exhibit my art in front of the multitudes.

Steve Prefontaine

#21. Most of philosophy is institutionalized mansplaining.

Deanna Havas

#22. Philosophy is a will to confront human artifice with its outside, with Nature.

Maurice Merleau Ponty

#23. Nintendo's philosophy is never to go the easy path; it's always to challenge ourselves and try to do something new.

Shigeru Miyamoto

#24. At the side of Enjolras, who represented the logic of revolution, was Combeferre, representing its philosophy. The difference between logic and philosophy is that one can decide upon war, whereas the other can only be fulfilled by peace.

Victor Hugo

#25. The disease of philosophy. - Philosophy is itself the disease for which it pretends to be the cure: the wise man does not pursue wisdom but lives his life, and therein precisely does his wisdom lie.

Bruce Lee

#26. Ideology is the opposite of philosophy. Philosophy is the curiosity which guides its inquiry according to universal principles. Ideology is a prior prejudice that seeks out an echo-chamber of reaffirming information.

Stefan Molyneux

#27. If I were a writer of books, I would compile a register, with a comment, of the various deaths of men: he who should teach men to die would at the same time teach them to live. - Michel de Montaigne, "That to Study Philosophy Is to Learn to Die

Paul Kalanithi

#28. The best indicator of a man's philosophy is not what he reads or says, but the way in which he lives his life, the way in which he acts.

Chris Matakas

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

Epictetus

#30. My whole philosophy is a feeling about life. A feeling of awe.

Marty Rubin

#31. Philosophy is an unusually ingenious attempt to think fallaciously.

Bertrand Russell

#32. The emblem of a philosophy is not that it contains a set of specific thoughts , but that it generates a way of thinking.

Samuel R. Delany

#33. My philosophy is 'learn while you live.' 'LazyTown' is about balance. I'm not there yet.

Magnus Scheving

#34. Religion as a philosophy is superior to religion as a practice.

Daya Kudari

#35. Philosophy is the replacement of category-habits by category-disciplines.

Gilbert Ryle

#36. Philosophy is a lens for interpretation and compass for action.

Andrew C. Katen

#37. St. Paul would say to the philosophers that God created man so that he would seek the Divine, try to attain the Divine. That is why all pre-Christian philosophy is theological at its summit.

Hans Urs Von Balthasar

#38. My philosophy is inverted Platonism: the further a thing is from true being, the purer, the lovelier, the better it is. Living inillusion as a goal!

Friedrich Nietzsche

#39. The philosophy is that you push the power of decision making out to the periphery and away from the center. You give people the room to adapt, based on their experience and expertise. All you ask is that they talk to one another and take responsibility. That is what works.

Atul Gawande

#40. Unless one's philosophy is all-inclusive, nothing can be understood.

Mary Ritter Beard

#41. Taoist philosophy is essentially monistic. Matter and energy, Yang and Yin, heaven and earth, are conceived of as essentially one or as two coexistent poles of one indivisible whole.

Bruce Lee

#42. A good rule of angling philosophy is not to interfere with any fishermans ways of being happy, unless you want to be hated.

Zane Grey

#43. Our Fly Smart philosophy is about investing only on those points of differentiation that pay for themselves, that earn a revenue premium commensurate with what it costs us to provide that product or service.

Gerard Arpey

#44. The fact is, mental philosophy is very like Poverty, which, you know, begins at home; and indeed, when it goes abroad, it is poverty itself.

Henry David Thoreau

#45. Our philosophy is we call it as we see it. Sometimes you agree, sometimes you don't. Robust debate is good.

Bill O'Reilly

#46. Newt Scamander : "My philosophy is that worrying means you suffer twice.

J.K. Rowling

#47. Socrates ... is the first philosopher of life [Lebensphilosoph], ... Thinking serves life, while among all previous philosophers life had served thought and knowledge ... Thus Socratic philosophy is absolutely practical: it is hostile to all knowledge unconnected to ethical implications.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#48. For philosophy, Socrates, if pursued in moderation and at the proper age, is an elegant accomplishment, but too much philosophy is the ruin of human life.

Plato

#49. Instead there is a sense that life and death are connected, and that because the way you live is going to affect the way you die, the point of philosophy is to learn to die well.

Bri

#50. I think I'm generally an upbeat person. Obviously I can get moody, but my whole philosophy is to try and have a good time.

Eliza Doolittle

#51. My philosophy is that you don't motivate players with speeches; you have motivated players that you draft. That's where they come in, and those are the guys that are competitive. You can not teach competitiveness.

Phil Jackson

#52. All philosophy is a 'critique of language' (though not in Mauthner's sense). It was Russell who performed the service of showing that the apparent logical form of a proposition need not be its real one.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

#53. My philosophy is to "kill the monster while it's little." The best time to handle a "negative" emotion is when you first begin to feel it. It's much more difficult to interrupt an emotional pattern once it's full-blown.

Tony Robbins

#54. The principle itself of dogmatic religion, dogmatic morality, dogmatic philosophy, is what requires to be booted out; not any particular manifestation of that principle.

John Stuart Mill

#55. My philosophy is to take one day at a time. I don't worry about the future. Tomorrow is even out of sight for me.

Bobby Darin

#56. All good moral philosophy is ... but the handmaid to religion.

Francis Bacon

#57. My philosophy is TRUTH unto me. Through expressing my individuality I become free.

Stuart Wilde

#58. Philosophy is the abstract art of thoughts and perceptions that form colors of words and languages that paint the canvas of our minds.

Debasish Mridha

#59. Religion without philosophy is sentiment, or sometimes fanaticism, while philosophy without religion is mental speculation.

A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

#60. Every man must have a philosophy of life,
for everyone must have a standard by which to measure his conduct.
And philosophy is nothing but a standard by which to measure.

B.R. Ambedkar

#61. Adult Swim's philosophy is, 'Put it on the air and if it works, great. If it doesn't, take it down and try again.' It's a refreshing way to do TV, I think.

Eric Wareheim

#62. Philosophy is so interesting that it makes you feel boring.

Debasish Mridha

#63. He who has religion will speak poetry. But philosophy is the tool with which to seek and discover religion.

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

#64. My philosophy is, unless you're sick and need help, why bother?

Jackie Collins

#65. But also philosophy is not about perceptible substances they, you see, are prone to destruction.

Aristotle.

#66. Hegel's philosophy is very difficult - he is, I should say, the hardest to understand of all the great philosophers. Before entering on any detail, a general characterization may prove helpful.

Bertrand Russell

#67. Philosophy is the science which considers truth.

Aristotle.

#68. I don't play favorites with people. My basic philosophy is that the only way to make the world a better place is by bringing something beautiful to every single person you run into at every moment of the day, so how can you play favorites with somebody?

John Zorn

#69. Some philosophers hold that philosophy is what you do to a problem until it's clear enough to solve it by doing science. Others hold that if a philosophical problem succumbs to empirical methods, that shows it wasn't really philosophical to begin with.

Jerry A. Fodor

#70. Philosophy is surgery; surgery is philosophy.

David Cronenberg

#71. My personal writing philosophy is to try and write better every day.

Amity Gaige

#72. Philosophy is the critically reflective, systematically articulated attempt to illumine our human experience in depth and set it in a vision of the whole.

W. Norris Clarke

#73. Any political philosophy is perfect in a given moment...but moments are fleeting.

Michele Poague

#74. No one worries terribly much about who the questions belong to, or whether a given contribution is really philosophy or, instead, properly nothing but science. Perhaps another way to put this is that, although I think that knowledge is a natural kind, I don't think that philosophy is.

Hilary Kornblith

#75. Philosophy is an infertile hybrid. Life is a prolific hermaphrodite.

Raheel Farooq

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

Novalis

#77. Politics is likely to be a competition between legitimate opposing interests. Philosophy is likely to be a tension between competing half-truths. A personality is likely to be a battleground of valuable but

David Brooks

#78. University philosophy is, as a rule, mere juggling. Its real aim is to impart to the students, in the deepest ground of their thought, that tendency of mind which the ministry that appoints to the professorships regards as consistent with its views.

Arthur Schopenhauer

#79. All our philosophy is as dry as dust if it is not immediately translated into some act of living service.

Mahatma Gandhi

#80. Real philosophy is like trying to read an alarm system installation manual in Korean.

Chris Hardwick

#81. My philosophy is very simple: when in doubt, take a bath.

Sarah Ban Breathnach

#82. She - philosophy is equally helpful to the rich and poor: neglect her, and she equally harms the young and old.

Horace

#83. The world is real; philosophy is the illusion.

Marty Rubin

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

Bryan Magee

#85. Philosophy is best practised by people in general and not by philosophers alone. Philosophy is too often a luxury now, but in ancient Greece, carpenters, masons and beggars were the main practitioners. What I am trying to develop is a philosophical system where all the subjects can be taught.

Michel Onfray

#86. A major danger in using highly abstractive methods in political philosophy is that one will succeed merely in generalizing one's own local prejudices and repackaging them as demands of reason. The study of history can help to counteract this natural human bias.

Raymond Geuss

#87. The truth is that there are two men in Ibsen - an idealist, exalted to the verge of sentimentality, and a critic, hard, inexorable, remorseless, to the verge of cynicism. What we call his "social philosophy" is a modus vivendi arrived at between them. Both agree in repudiating "marriage for love";

Henrik Ibsen

#88. The place I begin is with story. If the audience doesn't care about that, then it doesn't matter how amazing the spectacle is. My central philosophy is that people go to the movies to be told a story, not to see stuff blow up.

Jonathan Mostow

#89. I think the Playboy philosophy is very, very connected to the American dream.

Hugh Hefner

#90. But then of course a philosophy is not the same thing as a style.

Gertrude Stein

#91. Philosophy is not suited for the masses, what they need is holiness.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#92. Learning philosophy is learning a particular kind of intuitive understanding.

Iris Murdoch

#93. The creative mind is the playful mind. Philosophy is the play and dance of ideas.

Eric Hoffer

#94. I am so stupid that I cannot understand philosophy; the antithesis of this is that philosophy is so clever that it cannot comprehend my stupidity. These antitheses are mediated in a higher unity; in our common stupidity.

Soren Kierkegaard

#95. My fundamental axiom of speculative philosophy is that materialism and spiritualism are opposite poles of the same absurdity-the absurdity of imagining that we know anything about either spirit or matter.

Thomas Huxley