Top 100 Quotes About Philosophy
#1. Jiu-Jitsu is like a philosophy. It helps me learn how to face life.
Helio Gracie
#2. You may have a beautiful philosophy, you may have lofty ideals, but what you will do with your philosophy and ideals is dependent entirely upon what you are inside yourself
Ervin Seale
#3. True philosophy must start from the most immediate and comprehensive fact of consciousness: 'I am life that wants to live, in the midst of life that wants to live
Albert Schweitzer
#4. It is our philosophical set of the sail that determines the course of our lives. To change our current Direction, we have to change our philosophy, not our circumstances.
Jim Rohn
#5. To define twentieth-century humanism briefly, I would say that it is a philosophy of joyous service for the greater good of all humanity in this natural world and advocating the methods of reason, science, and democracy.
Corliss Lamont
#6. Man to woman; man to man in letter words will stand
the philosophy of coming in along by the bay of hay
made so sublime be that it outlasts the coming time.
Richard Mc Sweeney
#8. A person is note defined by their ideals or their philosophy... only by their actions!
Kevin V. Symmons
#9. It was my first meeting with a philosophy that confirmed my vague speculations and seemed at once logical and boundless.
William Butler Yeats
#10. We have all had teachers who sought to educate us by feeding alien ideas into our minds, ideas for which we felt no spiritual or intellectual kinship. These we dutifully tried to integrate into our total spiritual philosophy but always without success.
A.W. Tozer
#11. Science only answers the question, How does it work? Or at most, What's there? Science asks what and how, philosophy asks why, myth and religion ask who. Who's in charge here? Who's the author? That's what we really long to know.
Peter Kreeft
#12. A new philosophy generally means in practice the praise of some old vice.
G.K. Chesterton
#13. Philosophy is one thing, life another.
Marty Rubin
#14. The reason I can't follow the old eye-for-an-eye philosophy is that it ends up leaving everyone blind.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#15. You do what you have to do in life, when you form a philosophy that you can't talk yourself out of.
Constantine Karamanlis
#16. In the USA, we learn "art history" as Western art history, and the history of Asian, or African art is a special case; we learn politics by examining our own government system, and consider other systems special cases, and the same is true of philosophy.
Jay L. Garfield
#17. Philosophy is like science and unlike history in that it seeks general truths rather than an account of particular events, either in the near or distant past.
Mortimer J. Adler
#18. Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ.
Augustine Of Hippo
#19. In my reading of philosophy, I saw that there were innumerable problems that nobody was giving answers for. the Bible, it struck me, dealt with man's problems in a sweeping, all-encompassing thrust.
Francis Schaeffer
#20. In the hands of a genius, engineering turns to magic, philosophy becomes poetry, and science pure imagination.
Benjamin Disraeli
#21. I firmly believe that the Gandhian philosophy of nonviolent resistance is the only logical and moral approach to the solution of the race problem in the United States.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#22. My interest in philosophy began as early as eight years old - I started thinking about those kinds of heavy questions about life and humanity.
Steve Weinstein
#23. Yoga is a way of life; it is an art, a science, a philosophy.
B.K.S. Iyengar
#24. The truest philosophy contains the most contradictions.
Marty Rubin
#25. Do all the work you can; that is the whole philosophy of the good way of life.
Eugene Delacroix
#26. I'm guessing you thought I was way off on your political philosophy but right on the button about the other two. Just think about that for a while.
John Scalzi
#27. Irrespective of what religious or intellectual philosophy guides an enlightened person's life plan, self-mastery plays an important, if not quintessential role.
Kilroy J. Oldster
#28. Philosophy's greatest task is to enlarge our sense of possibility.
Susan Neiman
#29. A new philosophy, a new way of life, is not given for nothing. It has to be paid dearly for and only acquired with much patience and great effort
Fyodor Dostoevsky
#30. The philosophy of Buddhism is connected to everything. So it probably does have some connection with acting, yes.
Orlando Bloom
#31. Conceptual relativism is a heady and exotic doctrine, or would be if we could make good sense of it. The trouble is, as so often in philosophy, it is hard to improve intelligibility while retaining the excitement.
Donald Davidson
#32. Philosophy has been a masked ball in which a religious image of humankind is renewed in the guise humanist ideas of progress and enlightenment. Even philosophy's greatest unmaskers have ended up as figures in the masquerade. Removing the masks from our animal faces is a task that has hardly begun.
John N. Gray
#33. One of the great questions of philosophy is, do we innately have morality, or do we get it from celestial dictation? A study of the Ten Commandments is a very good way of getting into and resolving that issue.
Christopher Hitchens
#34. What do you need to succeed in business? You need the ability to think critically and communicate, and those things you can get just as easily out of a philosophy degree.
Matthew Stewart
#35. In fact, philosophy is universal in scope. No man can live without a world view; therefore, there is no man who is not a philosopher.
Francis Schaeffer
#36. Modern sociology is virtually an attempt to take up the larger program of social analysis and interpretation which was implicit in Adam Smith's moral philosophy, but which was suppressed for a century by prevailing interest in the technique of the production of wealth.
Albion W. Small
#38. Allow me a bit of philosophy here ... We started tele skiing as a rebellion against rules.
Paul Parker
#39. Philosophy is the thoughts of men about human thinking, reasoning and imagining, and the real values in human existence.
Charles William Eliot
#40. I think everybody should study ants. They have an amazing four-part philosophy. Never give up, look ahead, stay positive and do all you can.
Jim Rohn
#41. You can't save everybody. In fact, there are days when I think you can't save anyone. Each person has to save himself first, then you can move in and help. I have found this philosophy does not work during a gun battle, or a knife fight either. Outside of that it works just fine.
Laurell K. Hamilton
#42. Hey, you want to hear my philosophy of life? Do it to him before he does it to you.
Budd Schulberg
#43. One of her dearest and handsomest friends was a sorcerer, and from him she had learned so much magic even her hairpins got up and started living serious-minded lives, writing hairpin-ballads, celebrating hairpin-holidays, and inventing several new schools of philosophy.
Catherynne M Valente
#44. My mind was formed by studying philosophy, Plato and that sort of thing.
Werner Heisenberg
#45. I'm always looking for something new: a new inspiration, a new philosophy, a new way to look at something, new talent.
Madonna Ciccone
#46. To be honest, I want readers to be wrung out. As a novelist, I don't have a political agenda or specific philosophy; I'm trying to create a gut-wrenching, intimate, memorable experience.
Jillian Medoff
#47. The search for something permanent is one of the deepest of the instincts leading men to philosophy.
Bertrand Russell
#48. To me personally the only function of philosophy is to teach us to take life more lightly and gayly than the average businessman does, for no businessman who does not retire at fifty, if he can, is in my eyes a philosopher.
Lin Yutang
#49. What is the meaning of the togetherness of the perceiving mind, in that peculiar modification of perceiving which makes it perceive not a star but a tree, and the tree itself, is a problem for philosophy.
Samuel Alexander
#52. We need a moral philosophy which can speak significantly of Freud and Marx and out of which aesthetic and political views can be generated. We need a moral philosophy in which the concept of love, so rarely mentioned now, can once again be made central.
Iris Murdoch
#53. My philosophy of leadership is to surround myself with good people who have ability, judgment and knowledge, but above all, a passion for service.
Sonny Perdue
#54. For whatever reason I was always obsessed with the potential of humanity's physicality. Especially since we grew up with such a non-physical philosophy.
Zack Snyder
#55. I have a friend who lives by a three-word philosophy: Seize the Moment. Just possibly, she may be the wisest woman on this planet.
Erma Bombeck
#56. Western philosophers gained access to Asian and African traditions initially by noting similarities and differences. But that, as A.C. Mukerji, of Allahabad, was to note in 1932, is not to do philosophy, but is at best a preparation.
Jay L. Garfield
#57. We will have to abandon the philosophy of Democritus and the concept of elementary particles. We should accept instead the concept of elementary symmetries.
Werner Heisenberg
#58. The message of guidance that neither politics nor philosophy nor religion now seems able to provide, we look for in modern literature.
Irving Howe
#59. If the old saying is true, that what one generation learns in school is the philosophy of the next, then the philosophy of the next generation will be totalitarianism.
John Whitehead
#60. I was at college studying psychology, philosophy, textiles and drama. But because I wasn't one of those all-singing, all-dancing stage-school kids, I just assumed I'd never become an actor.
Kathryn Prescott
#61. Some dogma, we are told, was credible in the twelfth century, but is not credible in the twentieth. You might as well say that a certain philosophy can be believed on Mondays, but cannot be believed on Tuesdays.
G.K. Chesterton
#62. Be happy, be happy; you shall have your red rose. I will build it out of music by moonlight, and stain it with my own heart's-blood. All that I ask of you in return is that you will be a true lover, for Love is wiser than Philosophy, though she is wise, and mightier than Power, though he is mighty.
Oscar Wilde
#63. I want the players to play that way, so I'd better manage that way. The philosophy has been thrown out there. We've been talking about it. We've been working on it, so let's see how it works. Let's see if theory and reality can come together.
Joe Maddon
#64. It is only in the philosophy of the seminar room that serious doubts are raised as to weather or not dogs and cats and other animals have consciousness. We all know how aware they are of their surroundings... and of us... they leave no doubt when they are in pain...
Daniel N. Robinson
#66. That philosopher who said we think, therefore we are, should have spent an hour in the maternity ward of Waite Memorial Hospital. He'd have had to change his whole philosophy. The
Janet Fitch
#67. The phantasmogoric philosophy, ineluctable bride of mediocrity.
Aporva Kala
#68. The Ethics of Aristotle is one half of a single treatise of which his Politics is the other half. Both deal with one and the same subject. This subject is what Aristotle calls in one place the "philosophy of human affairs;" but more frequently Political or Social Science.
Aristotle.
#69. Unfortunately there are some trends that are changing this but you don't have for example as strict and narrow understanding of the relationship between men and women. And then there is the philosophy we have to extract in the relationship between text and culture.
Tariq Ramadan
#70. Hard science gives sensational results with a horribly boring process; philosophy gives boring results with a sensational process; literature gives sensational results with a sensational process; and economics gives boring results with a boring process.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
#71. Although it is not as famous as Kuhn's SSR, Bas van Fraassen's book The Scientific Image (1980) has certainly had a profound effect on the philosophy of science
Howard Margolis
#72. May and June. Soft syllables, gentle names for the two best months in the garden year: cool, misty mornings gently burned away with a warming spring sun, followed by breezy afternoons and chilly nights. The discussion of philosophy is over; it's time for work to begin.
H. Peter Loewer
#73. The teachings of Osho, in fact, encompass many religions, but he is not defined by any of them. He is an illuminating speaker on Zen, Taoism, Tibetan Buddhism, Christianity and ancient Greek philosophy ... and also a prolific author.
Nevill Drury
#74. The purpose of a work of fiction is to appeal to the lingering after-effects in the reader's mind as differing from, say, the purpose of oratory or philosophy which respectively leave people in a fighting or thoughtful mood.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#75. I'm in love with a philosophy major, and she doesn't even know I exist. And what's worse, she can prove it.
Arj Barker
#76. But that which remains for ever incomprehensible is the initial horror, the horror imposed on each of us, of having to live, and that is a mystery no philosophy can explain.
Joris-Karl Huysmans
#77. There's a difference between a philosophy and a bumper sticker.
Charles M. Schulz
#78. I just swung for the fence. That's my whole philosophy in life.
Ronnie Van Zant
#79. EVERYTHING THAT HAPPENS, STAYS HAPPENED.
"What kind of philosophy is that?"
THE ONLY ONE THAT WORKS.
Terry Pratchett
#80. This is my philosophy: I prefer to stay out of the public eye. I love freedom.
Bidzina Ivanishvili
#81. 'Climb Every Mountain' is a beautiful statement of philosophy. Critics may think 'The Sound of Music' is saccharine, but I think it's profound. The message, that we can't accommodate evil, is just as important today.
Jon Voight
#82. Any theory, hypothesis, philosophy, sect, creed or institution that fears investigation, openly manifests its own error.
Andrew Jackson Davis
#83. Size matters in fiction, but so does lack of size. Everything else being equal, fat novels tend to be perceived as serious, very thin ones as more honest, more real. Writers address these age-old expectations by filling their big books with philosophy and cramming their little ones with feeling.
Walter Kirn
#84. Those who have been eminent in philosophy, politics, poetry, and the arts have all had tendencies toward melancholia.
Aristotle.
#85. With a philosophy education, one can infuriate his peers, intimidate his date, think of obscure, unreliable ways to make money, and never regret a thing.
Criss Jami
#86. My philosophy in all my jobs at McDonald's is to be honest and say what I think and mean what I say.
Charlie Bell
#87. Am I an Apple bigot? No. I can critique their products and their customer service philosophy. But overall, they do better than any other player.
Donald Norman
#88. When passions and appetites are stronger than the intellect, men are savages; when the intellect governs the passions, when the passions are servants, men are civilized. The people need education - facts - philosophy.
Robert Green Ingersoll
#89. In practice people who study philosophy too long become very odd birds, not to say thoroughly vicious; while even those who are the best of them are reduced by ... [philosophy] to complete uselessness as members of society.
Plato
#90. Doing philosophy is only a threefold or double kind of waking
being awake
consciousness.
Novalis
#91. The relation of this God with this man; the relation of this man with this God
this is the only theme of the Bible and of philosophy.
Karl Barth
#92. There has never been a philosophy, a theory or a doctrine, that attacked (or 'limited') reason, which did not preach submission to the power of some authority.
Ayn Rand
#93. Reason in my philosophy is only a harmony among irrational impulses.
George Santayana
#94. The price of freedom - of individuality - is attention to politics, careful planning, careful organization; philosophy is no more a barrier against political disaster than it is against plague.
Greg Bear
#96. Let that ethical philosophy therefore of free-will be far from a Christian mind.
John Calvin
#97. Yeah, but in the end his followers take what they want from his philosophy. Maybe it doesn't matter what's going on in David Icke's mind. It's how other people take him.
Jon Ronson
#98. I think that novels are tools of thought. They are moral philosophy with the theory left out, with just the examples of the moral situations left standing.
Jill Paton Walsh
#99. We must consider how very little history there is
I mean real, authentic history. That certain kings reigned and certain battles were fought, we can depend upon as true; but all the coloring, all the philosophy, of history is conjecture.
Samuel Johnson
#100. But Dr. Smith says, and I believe it to be a true state of the case, that he himself gave a course of Lectures in Natural Philosophy, during the same winter, and that the money raised by them was also applied towards paying for the Orrery.
David Rittenhouse
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