Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rod Stewart

Life is so brief and time is a thief when you're undecided.

Robert Trout

The myth that the founding of American Republic was based on the philosophy of John Locke could only have been maintained, because the history of Leibniz's influence was suppressed.

Robert Trout

The American Revolution was, in fact, a battle against the philosophy of Locke and the English utilitarians.

Robert Trout

The myth that John Locke was the philosopher behind the American Republic, is easily refuted by examining how Locke's philosophy steered Thomas Jefferson, for example.

Robert Sheckley

Ethical and questions of philosophy interest me a great deal.

Satish Kumar

All the big problems of the world today are routed in the philosophy of separateness and dualism.

Satish Kumar

Before the scientific rationalism took hold of our minds and before we became succumbed to a materialistic worldview, the Western philosophy was holistic and relational, and even now there are many scientists in the West seeing things totally interconnected.

Sarah McLachlan

I've got to live my life the way I feel is right for me. Might not be right for you, but it's right for me.

Sarah Miles

Faith, for me, isn't an argument, a catechism, a philosophical “proof.” It is instead a lens, a way of experiencing life, and a willingness to act.

Sandra Postel

Today's water institutions-the policies and laws, government agencies and planning and engineering practices that shape patterns of water use-are steeped in a supply-side management philosophy no longer appropriate to solving today's water problems.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The annals of the French Revolution prove that the knowledge of the few cannot counteract the ignorance of the many.... The light of philosophy, when it is confined to a small minority, points out the possessors as the victims rather than the illuminators of the multitude.

Robert Greene

Be brutal with the past, especially your own, and have no respect for the philosophies that are foisted on you from outside.

Robert B. Laughlin

But the need for conflict to expose prejudice and unclear reasoning, which is deeply embedded in my philosophy of science, has its origin in these debates.

Robert Anton Wilson

I'm the kind of anarchist whose chief objection to the State is that it kills so many people. Government is the epitome of the deathist philosophy I reject.

Robert Anton Wilson

Certitude is seized by some minds, not because there is any philosophical justification for it, but because such minds have an emotional need for certitude.

Robert Anton Wilson

Philadelphia merely seems dull because it's next to exciting Camden, New Jersey.

Robert Anton Wilson

...an optimistic mind-set finds dozens of possible solutions for every problem that the pessimist regards as incurable.

Richard M. Nixon

God, of course, is the greatest philosopher of all.

Richard M. Nixon

Television is to news as bumperstickers are to philosophy.

Richard Rorty

As long as we try to project from the relative and conditioned to the absolute and unconditioned, we shall keep the pendulum swinging between dogmatism and skepticism. The only way to stop this increasingly tiresome pendulum swing is to change our conception of what philosophy is good for. But that is not something which will be accomplished by a few neat arguments. It will be accomplished, if it ever is, by a long, slow process of cultural change - that is to say, of change in common sense, changes in the intuitions available for being pumped up by philosophical arguments.

Richard Rorty

Philosophy makes progress not by becoming more rigorous but by becoming more imaginative.

Roald Dahl

Having power is not nearly as important as what you choose to do with it.

Richard Courant

For scholars and laymen alike it is not philosophy but active experience in mathematics itself that can alone answer the question: What is mathematics?

Tullian Tchividjian

When God saved me, He gave me a thirst to learn and to read and to study. I thrived in college. I got a bachelor's degree in philosophy and then went to Reformed Theological Seminary in Orlando.

Tori Amos

These precious things, let them bleed.

Richard Dawkins

My interest in biology was pretty much always on the philosophical side.

Roger Ailes

Capitalism works. In the end, socialism imploded on itself. Communism imploded on itself. Ultimately jihadism will implode on itself, if we stay in the fight and stay on offense because failed philosophies don't work, there's no future.

Robin Williams

The only weapon we have is comedy.

Robin Williams

Crying never helped anybody do anything, okay? You have a problem you face it like a man.

Robin Williams

When you have a great audience, you can just keep going and finding new things.

Robin Williams

All you have to do is think one happy thought, and you'll fly like me.

Vince Gilligan

I've imparted that philosophy to the writers, but some of them look stuff up while some don't. Same with the editors, directors and actors. To each their own.

Robert Graves

This seems to me a philosophical question, and therefore irrelevant, question. A poet's destiny is to love.