Famous Quotes & Sayings

Nelson Goodman

I am concerned, rather, that there should not be more things dreamt of in my philosophy than there actually are in heaven and earth.

Nelson Rockefeller

The fundamental question for the United States is how it can cooperate to help meet the basic needs of the people of the hemisphere despite the philosophical disagreements it may have with the nature of particular regimes. It must seek pragmatic ways to help people without necessarily embracing their governments. It should recognize that diplomatic relations are merely practical conveniences and not measures of moral judgment.

Noah Taylor

It seems essential to try to find some meaning to life and I guess Jungian philosophy is the one that's helped me understand myself and the world more than anything else.

Noah Webster

Every civil government is based upon some religion or philosophy of life. Education in a nation will propagate the religion of that nation. In America, the foundational religion was Christianity. And it was sown in the hearts of Americans through the home and private and public schools for centuries. Our liberty, growth, and prosperity was the result of a Biblical philosophy of life. Our continued freedom and success is dependent on our educating the youth of America in the principles of Christianity.

Noam Chomsky

The only debatable issue, it seems to me, is whether it is more ridiculous to turn to experts in social theory for general well-confirmed propositions, or to the specialists in the great religions and philosophical systems for insights into fundamental human values.

Mike Pence

Whether it's called 'compassionate conservatism' or 'big government Republicanism,' after years of record increases in federal spending, more government is now the accepted Republican philosophy in Washington.

Joey McIntyre

Don't ever wish you were someone else, you were meant to be the way you are exactly.

Joe Namath

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

John Grierson

Some of us learned in a school of philosophy which taught that all was for the common good and nothing for oneself and have never, in any case, regarded the pursuit of happiness as anything other than an aberration of the human spirit.

Ken Burns

Civics is in fact politics, and politics is how things work not only in the political realm but in every other realm. It may be this simple mechanical glitch that unites everything. This is my philosophy.

Ken Follett

The boundary between philosophy and fiction is not as clear cut as you may think and the two definitely interact..

Keanu Reeves

I don't know if that's philosophy or if that's something else, but to me it [digital filming] has an emotional feeling , that this materiality, the loss of the materiality.

Orel Hershiser

My main philosophy is that money is a loan from God. I'm in charge of it. I'm responsible for investin it, giving some of it away, providing for my family, and protecting it.

Omar Sharif

My philosophy is that when I go out of my room, I'm prepared to love everybody I meet, unless they're bad.

Oprah Winfrey

With every failure, every crisis, every difficult time, I say - What is this here to teach me? And as soon as you get the lesson, you get to move on. If you really get the lesson, you pass and you don't have to repeat the class. My philosophy is that not only are you responsible for your life, but doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment

Oliver Hudson

Parent hard, play hard. That's my philosophy.

Oliver Goldsmith

Philosophy can add to our happiness in no other manner but by diminishing our misery; it should not pretend to increase our present stock, but make us economists of what we are possessed of. Happy were we all born philosophers; all born with a talent of thus dissipating our own cares by spreading them upon all mankind.

Oliver Goldsmith

All that philosophy can teach is to be stubborn or sullen under misfortunes.

Oliver Goldsmith

Religion does what philosophy could never do; it shows the equal dealings of Heaven to the happy and the unhappy, and levels all human enjoyments to nearly the same standard. It gives to both rich and poor the same happiness hereafter, and equal hopes to aspire after it.

Oliver Goldsmith

Philosophy ... should not pretend to increase our present stock, but make us economists of what we are possessed of.

Oliver Goldsmith

To a philosopher no circumstance, however trifling, is too minute.

Margaret Atwood

I tried for the longest time to find out what deconstructionism was. Nobody was able to explain it to me clearly. The best answer I got was from a writer, who said, 'Honey, it's bad news for you and me.

Margaret Atwood

I think the book you always like best is the one you're about to write.

Margaret Atwood

The desire to be loved is the last illusion. Give it up and you will be free.

Margaret Atwood

Touch comes before sight, before speech. It is the first language and the last, and it always tells the truth.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Nature abhors annihilation.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Whatever you do, do with all your might.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Even if you have nothing to write, write and say so.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Sed nescio quo modo nihil tam absurde dici potest quod non dicatur ab aliquo philosphorum. (There is nothing so absurd but some philosopher has said it.)

Marcus Tullius Cicero

To study philosophy is nothing but to prepare one’s self to die.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

It shows nobility to be willing to increase your debt to a man to whom you already owe much.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Great is our admiration of the orator who speaks with fluency and discretion.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Frivolity is inborn, conceit acquired by education.