Famous Quotes & Sayings

Luc de Clapiers

The falsest of all philosophies is that which, under the pretext of delivering men from the embarrassment of their passions, counsels idleness and the abandonment and neglect of themselves.

Luc de Clapiers

Clearness marks the sincerity of philosophers.

Sheryl Crow

I have a philosophy that everything you write doesn't have to be good for everybody. There are going to be people that get irritated by some of the things I write-including my parents. And then there are going to be people that you draw in because of the pointedness of certain things.

Sheryl Crow

I have a face I cannot show, I make the rules up as I go.

Nicolas Chamfort

Philosophy, like medicine, has plenty of drugs, few good remedies, and hardly any specific cures.

Nikolai Berdyaev

Ethics occupies a central place in philosophy because it is concerned with sin, with the origin of good and evil and with moral valuations. And since these problems have a universal significance, the sphere of ethics is wider than is generally supposed. It deals with meaning and value and its province is the world in which the distinction between good and evil is drawn, evaluations are made and meaning is sought.

Nikolai Berdyaev

Philosophy... is the creative perception by the spirit of the meaning of human existence.

Nat King Cole

If you smile through your fear and sorrow, smile and maybe tomorrow you'll see the sun come shining through for you.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

To become a philosopher, start by walking very slowly.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

For the classics philosophical insight was the product of a life of leisure; for me a life of leisure is the product of philosophical insight.

Morris Raphael Cohen

It has generally been assumed that of two opposing systems of philosophy, e.g., realism and idealism, one only can be true and one must be false; and so philosophers have been hopelessly divided on the question, which is the true one.

Morris Raphael Cohen

Lastly, literature and philosophy both allow past idols to be resurrected with a frequency which would be truly distressing to a sober scientist.

Morris Raphael Cohen

Again, both literature and philosophy work by appealing to certain reigning idols.

Miranda Kerr

I live by the philosophy that beauty starts from within, and I make a conscious effort to fill my body with nutrients through the food I eat.

Mignon McLaughlin

We come late, if at all, to wine and philosophy: whiskey and action are easier.

Mignon McLaughlin

Philosophy teaches a man that he can't take it with him; taxes teach him he can't leave it behind either.

John Wright

Ours is a very eclectic offering. We're affiliated with the church but we're not just offering church music. Our philosophy is that we wanted to bring quality music to the entire valley and let everyone enjoy it since we have a fine venue.

John Yarmuth

I know that in the battle of ideas, Republican politicians are at a distinct disadvantage. Their fundamental philosophy - which I characterize as survival of the fittest, richest and whitest - is too callous for most Americans.

John Wilmot

Books bear him up a while, and make him try to swim with bladders of philosophy.

The things a man believes most profoundly are rarely on the surface of his mind or tongue. Newly acquired notions, decisions based on expediency, the fashionable ideas of the moment are right on top of the pile, ready to be displayed in bright after dinner conversation. But the ideas that make up a man's philosophy of life are somewhere way down below.

Mortimer Adler

Philosophy is everybody's business.

Mortimer Adler

My chief reason for choosing Christianity was because the mysteries were incomprehensible. What's the point of revelation if we could figure it out ourselves? If it were wholly comprehensible, then it would just be another philosophy.

Mortimer Adler

Theories of love are found in the works of scientists, philosophers, and theologians.

Mortimer Adler

Ultimately there can be no disagreement between history, science, philosophy, and theology. Where there is disagreement, there is either ignorance or error.

Paulo Freire

The atmosphere of the home is prolonged in the school, where the students soon discover thatin order to achieve some satisfaction they must adapt to the precepts which have ben set from above. One of these precepts is not to think.

Philip Roth

Nothing lasts and yet nothing passes either, and nothing passes just because nothing lasts.

Peter Diamandis

I have the general philosophy of creating the future you want to see.

Marlon Brando

Hey, you wanna hear my philosophy of life? Do it to him before he does it to you.

Marisha Pessl

May you walk a lighted path. May you fight for truth - your truth, not someone else's - and may you understand, above all things, that you are the most important concept, theory, and philosophy I have ever known.

Maria Sharapova

When I come into a tournament, I'm expecting to win. That's my philosophy. I can't go to a tournament thinking, 'I'm going to get my ass kicked today, so I might as well leave.'

Meat Loaf

We carry the flame for all to see, the fire and passion of what we can be.

Meat Loaf

Life is a lemon and I want my money back.

Meat Loaf

You can lose yourself in pleasure, 'til your body's going numb, but will it ever be enough.