Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jonas Salk

I speak about universal evolution and teleological evolution; because I think the process of evolution reflects the wisdom of nature. I see the need for wisdom to become operative. We need to try to put all of these things together in what I call an evolutionary philosophy of our time.

Jonah Goldberg

But this is the kind of ass-clownery that stems from the fact that all philosophy looks weird when you don't have one.

Joyce Carol Oates

The mere passage of time makes us all exiles.

Richard Dawkins

As a scientist, I am hostile to fundamentalist religion because it actively debauches the scientific enterprise. It teaches us not to change our minds, and not to want to know exciting things that are available to be known. It subverts science and saps the intellect.

Richard Dawkins

Religion ends and philosophy begins, just as alchemy ends and chemistry begins, and astrology ends and astronomy begins.

Richard Whately

knowledge of our duties is the most useful part of philosophy.

Richelle Mead

You destroy my life then feed me inspirational philosophy.

Richelle Mead

This was the last thing I expected. You destroy my life and then feed me some inspiratonal philosophy.

Saint Augustine

Find out how much God has given you and from it take what you need; the remainder is needed by others.

Roger Martin

When it comes to innovation, business has much to learn from design. The philosophy in design shops is, 'try it, prototype it, and improve it'.

Umberto Eco

There is a constant in the average American imagination and taste, for which the past must be preserved and celebrated in full-scale authentic copy; a philosophy of immortality as duplication. It dominates the relation with the self, with the past, not infrequently with the present, always with History and, even, with the European tradition.

Umberto Eco

Only an unhinged movie survives as a disconnected series of images, of peaks, of visual icebergs. It should display not one central idea but many. It should not reveal a coherent philosophy of composition. It must live on, and because of, its glorious ricketiness.

Travis Tritt

Please tell me you will remember, no matter how much I do wrong that I had the best of intentions all along.

Reid Hoffman

We believe that when the right talent meets the right opportunity in a company with the right philosophy, amazing transformation can happen.

Rick Riordan

Grover didn't say anything for awhile. Then, when I thought he was going to give me some deep philosophical comment to make me feel better, he said, "Can I have your apple?

Pamela Sue Martin

A naturopath once told me you should never take antibiotics except if you have pneumonia, a kidney infection or some other serious illness. That's my philosophy, too.

Paracelsus

Medicine rests upon four pillars - philosophy, astronomy, alchemy, and ethics.

Paul McCartney

Bend like the willow, winds gonna blow you hard and cold tonight. Life as it happens, nobody warns you, willow hold on tight.

Paul McCartney

All at once we see things in our skies, and we both realize it together. Well you know they were wrong, get on the right thing.

Paul McCartney

I took my brains out and stretched them on the rack, now I'm not too sure I'm gonna get them back.

Paul McCartney

If this ever changing world in which we live in makes you give in and cry, say live and let die.

Paul McCartney

Live a little be a gypsy, get around. Get your feet up off the ground, live a little, get around.

Paul McCartney

If you love your life, everybody will love you too.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

It is vain philosophy that supposes more causes than are exactly adequate to explain the phenomena of things.

Paulette Goddard

He who accepts the unaltered philosophy of another is as ludicrous as he who donshis neighbor's hat, and infinitely more ridiculous.

Meher Baba

The finding of God is the coming to one's own self.

Mel Brooks

The audience. They see the name Mel Brooks, they want something really funny. They don't want to be moved; they don't want to be taught any lessons. But I get more letters for Twelve Chairs and Life Stinks than I get from any other movies, because people actually agree with the philosophy, or were moved, or they love the movie.

Mel Brooks

I started with [Leo] Tolstoy and I was overwhelmed. Tolstoy writes like an ocean, in huge, rolling waves, and it doesn't look like it was processed through his thinking. It feels very natural. You don't question whether Tolstoy's right or wrong. His philosophy is housed in interrelating characters, so it's not up for grabs.

Mel Brooks

Everything starts with writing. And then to support your vision, your ideas, your philosophy, your jokes, whatever, you've gotta perform them and/or direct them, or sometimes just produce them.

God is nearer to me than I am to myself; He is just as near to wood and stone, but they do not know it.

God is not found in the soul by adding anything but by a process of subtraction.

The now wherein God made the world is as near this time as the now I am speaking in this moment, and the last day is as near this now as was yesterday.

People should not worry so much about what they do but rather about what they are.