Quotes about phil
philosophy improvement humanist
Humanism involves far more than the negation of supernaturalism. It requires an affirmative philosophy . . . translated into a life devoted to one's own improvement and the service of all mankind. Corliss Lamont
philosophy understanding way
I'm actually with the classics in general in terms of understanding truth in an existential mode. Therefore, philosophy becomes more a way of life as opposed to simply a mode of discourse. Cornel West
philosophy thinking different
I think philosophy is all about lived experience, which is to say life in the streets, life in a variety of different contexts.
philosophy believe school
I believe philosophy must go to school with the poets; it's not either/or, it's not over or against.
philosopher lovers
A philosopher's a lover of wisdom.
philosophy long east
I would want to conceive of philosophy as grounded in the very long humanist tradition that is the best of the West, which is open to the East and North and South.
philosophy quests facts
Philosophy is in fact a quest for wisdom based in sophia; that quest for wisdom has everything to do with a love of wisdom.
philosophy wrestling hands
If you've got on the one hand death, dogmatism, domination, and on the other you've got desire in the face of death, dialogue in the face of dogmatism, democracy in the face of domination, then philosophy itself becomes a critical disposition of wrestling with desire in the face of death, wrestling with dialogue in the face of dogmatism, and wrestling with democracy, trying to keep alive a very fragile democratic experiment.
philosophy want matter
I'm a thousand miles from nowhere, time don't matter to me. I'm a thousand miles from nowhere and there's not place that I want to be. Dwight Yoakam
philosophy professors
There are now-a-days professors of philosophy but not philosophers. Henry David Thoreau
philip
There are two trilogies I admire: Robertson Davies's 'The Deptford Trilogy' and Philip Pullman's 'His Dark Materials.' Amy Bloom
philosophers-and-philosophy station themselves
The philosopher must station themselves in the middle. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
philosophy similar work
When you look at backgrounds, I think we've got very similar philosophies. That always makes it easier, too, if you know the person you're going to work for, you know what their philosophy is. Dom Capers
philosophy thinking class
In philosophy class I think we finally decided that 'good' is an infinitely recursive term - it can't be defined except in terms of itself. Good is good because it's better than bad, though why it's better to be good than bad depends on how you define good, and on and on. Orson Scott Card
philosophical strange
Nor is it strange That after changes upon changes, we are more or less the same Paul Simon
philosophical language preoccupation
It was less a literary thing than a linguistic, philosophical preoccupation... discovering how far you can go with language to create immediate, elementary experience. Robert Morgan
philosophy science scientific
We are challenging the philosophy of scientific materialism, not science itself,
philosophical who-i-am
Who is it that can tell me who I am? William Shakespeare
philosophical venice world
I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano!
philosophical character science
From the outset, however, this whole controversy has been plagued by tacit assumptions, very often of a philosophical rather than a physical character... David Bohm
philosophy secret listening
Secret thinker sometimes listening aloud. David Bowie
philosophy heaven body
Money goes to money heaven, body goes to body hell.
philosophical ideas people
When most people turn on their TVs, they don't expect a frank discussion of philosophical ideas in their practical context. Or any context. David O. Russell
philosophy saint humans
My basic philosophy is that no human being is a saint. David Maraniss
philosophy essence jiu-jitsu
The essence of jiu-jitsu is philosophy. David Mamet
philadelphia people soul
I wanted to show the world, and myself too, what I can do. I came up in the world of Philadelphia soul, but I'm fluent in a lot of languages musically and I like working with different people from different generations. Daryl Hall
philadelphia black towns
I grew up in a very racially integrated place called Pottstown. It was an agricultural / industrial town which has since become a suburb of Philadelphia. I grew up basically in a black neighborhood.
philosophical racism political
Anti-Semitism has no historical, political and certainly no philosophical origins. Anti-Semitism is a disease. Daniel Barenboim
philosophy rights political
In a political context of the utmost significance, ["freedom from fear"] recognizes a human right which, in a broad sense, may be said to sum up the whole philosophy of human rights. Dag Hammarskjold
philosophy believe rights
I don't believe in quotas. America was founded on a philosophy of individual rights, not group rights. Clarence Thomas
philosophy mean hardship
I mean, we are tribal by nature, and sometimes success and material wealth can divide and separate - it's not a new philosophy I'm sharing - more than hardship, hardship tends to unify. Colin Farrell
philosophy college should-have
Looking back, I should have pursued philosophy and economics and things of that sort in college more, but I didn't. Dan Quayle
philosophy wrestling ymca
I've never changed my life since I was 4 and went to the YMCA with a gym bag. I still have that philosophy. In fact, I still have that gym bag. Dan Gable