Famous Quotes & Sayings

Michael Pollan

we ask for too much salvation by legislation. All we need to do is empower individuals with the right philosophy and the right information to opt out en masse. (quoting Joel Salatin)

Michael Lee-Chin

The philosophy to 'buy and hold' is a philosophy that I use to manage funds.

Sholem Asch

Without a love of humankind there is no love of God.

Sherman Hemsley

I'm proud to be from Philadelphia.

Seth Gordon

There's no longer a monolithic evil empire somewhere, spreading a different philosophy of life. That doesn't exist.

Tom DeLay

We have a small faction, and they are a minority, who believe they are there to govern. Then there is the majority of us who believe that indeed we are there to govern but more importantly we are there to be an opposition to the Democratic philosophy and the only way to do that is through confrontation.

Tom DeLonge

Every day, I read books on philosophy and science fiction and human consciousness.

Tom DeLonge

Angels and Airwaves is a complete, pure reflection of who I am. The philosophy, the spiritualism, the esotericism, the idea of hope and space and the themes about life and grandeur that's all me.

Todd Rundgren

Wishing won't make it so Hoping won't do it, praying won't do it Religion won't do it, philosophy won't do it The Supreme Court won't do it, the President and the Congress won't do it The UN won't do it, the H-bomb won't do it, the sun and the moon won't do it And God won't do it, and I certainly won't do it That leaves you, you'll have to do it

Slavoj Zizek

I think that the task of philosophy is not to provide answers, but to show how the way we perceive a problem can be itself part of a problem.

Slavoj Zizek

What we philosophers can do is just correct the questions.

Rajneesh

Philosophers are never happy here. Now is not their time, and here is not their space. They live there, they live somewhere else.

Rajneesh

Your religions are boring you, your philosophies are boring you, your scriptures are boring you. Thousands of years of the past are the cause of your boredom. You cannot dance - you are chained to the past, you are imprisoned in the past.

Rajneesh

God is a synergetic experience. Science can never reveal it, philosophy can never come to it - only a poetic approach, a very passive, very loving approach, can.

Rajneesh

If you suffer it is because of you, if you feel blissful it is because of you. Nobody else is responsible - only you and you alone. You are your hell and your heaven too.

Rajneesh

My love is unconditional. Your action is irrelevant.

Snoop Dogg

Cut throats, gun smoke, dope, and hoes, is what controls niggas souls.

Socrates

Men of Athens, I honor and love you; but I shall obey God rather than you, and while I have life and strength I shall never cease from the practice and teaching of philosophy.

Socrates

An unexamined life is a life of no account.

Socrates

Besides, it is a shame to let yourself grow old through neglect before seeing how you can develop the maximum beauty and strength of body; and you can have this experience if your are negligent, because these things don't normally happen by themselves.

Socrates

I only know one thing, and that is I know nothing

Socrates

The envious person grows lean with the fatness of their neighbor.

Socrates

Ordinary people seem not to realize that those who really apply themselves in the right way to philosophy are directly and of their own accord preparing themselves for dying and death.

Socrates

Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.

Socrates

The beginning of wisdom is a definition of terms.

Socrates

The only thing I know is that I know nothing

Socrates

See one promontory, one mountain, one sea, one river and see all.

Socrates

This sense of wonder is the mark of the philosopher. Philosophy indeed has no other origin.

Socrates

They are not only idle who do nothing, but they are idle also who might be better employed.

Socrates

Get married, in any case. If you happen to get a good mate, you will be happy; if a bad one, you will become philosophical, which is a fine thing in itself.

Michelle Shocked

Their lives ran in circles so small They thought they'd seen it all

Michael Servetus

In the Bible, there is no mention of the Trinity. . . . We get to know God, not through our proud philosophical concepts, but through Christ.

Michael Shermer

...there ... remains a huge following [of Ayn Rand's philosophy] of those who ignore the indiscretions, infidelities, and moral inconsistencies of the founder and focus instead on the positive aspects of her philosophy. There is much in it to admire, if you do not have to accept the whole package... Criticism of the founder or followers of a philosophy does not, by itself, constitute a negation of any part of the philosophy... Criticism of part of a philosophy does not gainsay the whole.