Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jimmy Buffett

We're just recycled history machines, cavemen in faded blue jeans.

Jimmy Buffett

What if life is just a cosmic joke, like spiders in your underwear.

Katherine Anne Porter

I have no patience with this dreadful idea that whatever you have in you has to come out, that you can't suppress true talent. People can be destroyed; they can be bent, distorted, and completely crippled . . . In spite of all the poetry, all the philosophy to the contrary, we are not really masters of our fate.

Joseph Conrad

Analytical philosophy was very interesting. It always struck me as being very interesting and full of tremendous intellectual curiosities. It is wonderful to see the mind at work in such an intense manner, but, for me, it was still too far removed from my own issues.

Joseph Butler

People habituate themselves to let things pass through their minds, as one may speak, rather than to think of them. Thus by use they become satisfied merely with seeing what is said, without going any further. Review and attention, and even forming a judgment, becomes fatigue; and to lay anything before them that requires it, is putting them quite out of their way.

Kate Mulgrew

Abortion does not compute with my philosophy

Leonard Cohen

Like any joker, he was watching For the card that is so high and wild He'll never need to deal another He was just some Joseph looking for a manger

Leonard Cohen

Don't dwell on what has passed away or what is yet to be.

Leigh Steinberg

School gives you the freedom to explore different philosophies, religions, aspects of yourself, and subjects.

Laura Ziskin

Movies are arguably the most influential, important medium in the world. They have a tremendous cultural impact. Because women are now making movies, then women's ideas, philosophy, point of view will seep into that culture. And that's never happened in history. Ever, ever, ever. We can't even see the impact of that yet.

Kwame Nkrumah

Of all literature I studied, the book that did more than any other to fire my enthusiasm was Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey.

John Kasich

Everybody should have a chance to rise. That's our philosophy in Ohio and that's my philosophy for America.

John Keats

Philosophy will clip an angel's wings.

John Keats

For axioms in philosophy are not axioms until they are proved upon our pulses.

John Keats

Philosophy will clip an angel's wings, Conquer all mysteries by rule and line, Empty the haunted air, and gnomed mine - Unweave a rainbow.

Joy Behar

Monogamy is monotonous, but it's safe you know. And that's my philosophy. And I like to convey that to people.

Joseph Priestley

How glorious, then, is the prospect, the reverse of all the past, which is now opening upon us, and upon the world. Government, we may now expect to see, not only in theory and in books but in actual practice, calculated for the general good, and taking no more upon it than the general good requires, leaving all men the enjoyment of as many of their natural rights as possible, and no more interfering with matters of religion, with men's notions concerning God, and a future state, than with philosophy, or medicine.

Jules Michelet

Woe be to him who tries to isolate one department of knowledge from the rest. All science is one: language, literature and history, physics, mathematics and philosophy; subjects which seem the most remote from one another are in reality connected, or rather they all form a single system.

Karl Jaspers

As a universal history of philosophy, the history of philosophy must become one great unity.

Karl Jaspers

The history of philosophy is not, like the history of the sciences, to be studied with the intellect alone. That which is receptive in us and that which impinges upon us from history is the reality of man's being, unfolding itself in thought.

Karl Jaspers

Philosophy is tested and characterised by the way in which it appropriates its history.

Karl Jaspers

Philosophy can only be approached with the most concrete comprehension.

Karl Jaspers

The great philosophers and the great works are standards for the selection of what is essential. Everything that we do in studying the history of philosophy ultimately serves their better understanding.

Karl Jaspers

At the present moment, the security of coherent philosophy, which existed from Parmenides to Hegel, is lost.

Karl Jaspers

Philosophy as practice does not mean its restriction to utility or applicability, that is, to what serves morality or produces serenity of soul.

Karl Jaspers

It is the search for the truth, not possession of the truth which is the way of philosophy. Its questions are more relevant than its answers, and every answer becomes a new question.

Karl Barth

There is no philosophy that is not to some extent also theology.

Karl Barth

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 Kraus

Truth is a clumsy servant that breaks the dishes while washing them.

Julius Charles Hare

If your divines are not philosophers, your philosophy will neither be divine, nor able to divine.

Julius Charles Hare

The business of philosophy is to circumnavigate human nature.

Oswald Spengler

Philosophy, the love of Wisdom, is at the very bottom defence against the incomprehensible.

Ouida

A pipe is a pocket philosopher,--a truer one than Socrates, for it never asks questions. Socrates must have been very tiresome, when one thinks of it.