Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ludwig von Mises

The philosophy underlying the system of progressive taxation is that the income and wealth of the well-to-do classes can be freely tapped. What the advocates of these tax rates fail to realize is that the greater part of the incomes taxed away would not have been consumed but saved and invested.

Charles Peguy

A great philosophy is not one that passes final judgments and establishes ultimate truth. It is one that causes uneasiness and starts commotion.

Charles Peguy

A great philosophy is not a philosophy without reproach; it is philosophy without fear.

Denis Diderot

Passions destroy more prejudices than philosophy does.

Denis Diderot

The first step towards philosophy is incredulity.

Denis Diderot

What has not been examined impartially has not been well examined. Skepticism is therefore the first step towards truth.

Denis Diderot

Philosophy is as far separated from impiety as religion is from fanaticism.

Denis Diderot

Skepticism is the first step on the road to philosophy.

Dean Wareham

They didn't teach Nietzsche in the philosophy department at Harvard; philosophy there was strictly analytical stuff and the poetic ramblings of Nietzsche did not belong. And see - you are teaching it in a literature class - so they must have been right.

Dikembe Mutombo

I believe in the Democratic party, and their philosophy and what they stand for - for the poor people.

Elbert Hubbard

I have no perfect panacea for human ills. And even if I had I would not attempt to present a system of philosophy between the soup and fish.

Elbert Hubbard

Philosophy rests on a proposition that whatever is is right. Preaching begins by assuming that whatever is is wrong.

Eduardo Galeano

The Church says: the body is a sin. Science says: the body is a machine. Advertising says: The body is a business. The Body says: I am a fiesta.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

When lions paint pictures men will not always be represented as conquerors. When women translate laws, constitutions, bibles and philosophies, man will not always be the declared heard of the church, the state, and the home.

Deepak Chopra

Yoga began as a philosophy rather than as a physical discipline.

Deepak Chopra

Many scientists think that philosophy has no place, so for me it's a sad time because the role of reflection, contemplation, meditation, self inquiry, insight, intuition, imagination, creativity, free will, is in a way not given any importance, which is the domain of philosophers.

David Bowie

I'm drawn between the light and dark.

Darryl Worley

I can't save them by myself, oh but God forbid that I just turn my head and walk on by. Don't let me be a stranger to those less fortunate than I.

Abdul Kalam

Science has revealed that the human body is made up of millions and millions of atoms... For example, I am made up of 5.8x10^27 atoms.

Abraham Lincoln

There are no accidents in my philosophy. Every effect must have its cause. The past is the cause of the present, and the present will be the cause of the future. All these are links in the endless chain stretching from the finite to the infinite.

Catherynne M. Valente

At the bottom of philosophy something very true and very desperate whispers: Everyone is hungry all the time. Everyone is starving. Everyone wants so much, much more than they can stomach, but the appetite doesn't converse much with the stomach. Everyone is hungry and not only for food - for comfort and love and excitement and the opposite of being alone. Almost everything awful anyone does is to get those things and keep them.

Samuel Butler

All philosophies, if you ride them home, are nonsense, but some are greater nonsense than others.

We still have the same (offensive) philosophy. We spread it out and put the weight on the quarterback's shoulders.

William Osler

To know what has to be done, then do it, comprises the whole philosophy of practical life.

Ludwig von Mises

The distinctive principle of Western social philosophy is individualism.

Ludwig von Mises

The unprecedented success of Keynesianism is due to the fact that it provides an apparent justification for the 'deficit spending' policies of contemporary governments. It is the pseudo-philosophy of those who can think of nothing else than to dissipate the capital accumulated by previous generations.

Ludwig von Mises

An essential point in the social philosophy of interventionism is the existence of an inexhaustible fund which can be squeezed forever. The whole system of interventionism collapses when the fountain is drained off: The Santa Clause principle liquidates itself.

Ludwig von Mises

The philosophy commonly called individualism is a philosophy of social cooperation and the progressive intensification of the social nexus.

Ludwig von Mises

Behaviorism proposes to study human behavior according to the methods developed by animal and infant psychology. It seeks to investigate reflexes and instincts, automatisms and unconscious reactions. But it has told us nothing about the reflexes that have built cathedrals, railroads, and fortresses, the instincts that have produced philosophies, poems, and legal systems, the automatisms that have resulted in the growth and decline of empires, the unconscious reactions that are splitting atoms.

Ludwig von Mises

Economics must not be relegated to classrooms and statistical offices and must not be left to esoteric circles. It is the philosophy of human life and action and concerns everybody and everything. It is the pith of civilization and of man's human existence.

Aaron Sanchez

I like to cook with the philosophy of using great ingredients and not altering them too much.

Aaron Neville

Don't be ashamed to let your conscience be your guide.

Aaron Allston

There are times when the end justifies the means. But when you build an argument based on a whole series of such times, you may find that you've constructed an entire philosophy of evil." --Luke Skywalker