Famous Quotes & Sayings

Claudia Cardinale

I'm no syllogism incarnate, but my wife makes me look like Immanuel Kant.

Dalai Lama

Reason well from the beginning and then there will never be any need to look back with confusion and doubt.

Dalai Lama

The past is past, and the future is yet to come. That means the future is in your hands - the future entirely depends on the present. That realization gives you a great responsibility.

Dalai Lama

We need an approach to ethics which makes no recourse to religion and can be equally acceptable to those with faith and those without.

Dalai Lama

We can reject everything else: religion, ideology, all received wisdom. But we cannot escape the necessity of love and compassion. This, then, is my true religion, my simple faith. In this sense, there is no need for temple or church, for mosque or synagogue, no need for complicated philosophy, doctrine, or dogma. Our own heart, our own mind, is the temple. The doctrine is compassion. Love for others and respect for their rights and dignity, no matter who or what they are: ultimately these are all we need.

Dolly Parton

I am a seeker, a poor, sinful creature, there is no weaker than I.

Dolly Parton

Paradise is a state of mind.

Dolly Parton

We're afraid to live, because we're afraid of dying.

Dino De Laurentiis

My philosophy is very simple. To feel young, you must work as long as you can.

Diogenes

Even if I am but a pretender to wisdom, that in itself is philosophy.

Diogenes

Self-taught poverty is a help toward philosophy , for the things which philosophy attempts to teach by reasoning , poverty forces us to practice .

David O. Russell

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 Maraniss

My basic philosophy is that no human being is a saint.

David Mamet

The essence of jiu-jitsu is philosophy.

Daryl Hall

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

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.

Daniel Barenboim

Anti-Semitism has no historical, political and certainly no philosophical origins. Anti-Semitism is a disease.

Dag Hammarskjold

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.

Clarence Thomas

I don't believe in quotas. America was founded on a philosophy of individual rights, not group rights.

Colin Farrell

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.

Dan Quayle

Looking back, I should have pursued philosophy and economics and things of that sort in college more, but I didn't.

Dan Gable

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 Fogelberg

Are you under the power of gold?

Dan Fogelberg

Mystery's a thing not easily captured, and once deceased, not easily exhumed.

Cyrano de Bergerac

In it he proves that all things are true and states how the truths of all contradictions may be reconciled physically, such as for example that white is black and black is white; that one can be and not be at the same time; that there can be hills without valleys; that nothingness is something and that everything, which is, is not. But take note that he proves all these unheard-of paradoxes without any fallacious or sophistical reasoning.

Compay Segundo

Everyone should have a philosophy for living better.

Daphne Guinness

I practice stoic philosophy. As a human being, you may have emotions, but these don't need to affect your soul. The two are not one.

Corliss Lamont

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

The theory that everyone acts from self-interest, direct or indirect, is psychologically unsound. . . . Throughout history . . . there have been millions of men and women with some sort of Humanist philosophy who have consciously given up their lives for a social ideal.

Corliss Lamont

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.

Cornel West

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

I think philosophy is all about lived experience, which is to say life in the streets, life in a variety of different contexts.

Cornel West

I believe philosophy must go to school with the poets; it's not either/or, it's not over or against.