Famous Quotes & Sayings

C. S. Lewis

Nature does not teach. A true philosophy may sometimes validate an experience of nature; an experience of nature cannot validate a philosophy. Nature will not verify any theological or metaphysical proposition (or not in the manner we are now considering); she will help to show what it means.

C. S. Lewis

What we learn from experience depends on the kind of philosophy we bring to experience.

Cecelia Ahern

I felt that my views and philosophies had been changed overnight. The philosophies that i had gladly carved in stone, recited and danced upon.

Antoni Tapies

I am interested in study, reflection, philosophy - but always as a dilettante. I also consider myself a dilettante as a painter.

Bertrand Russell

The philosophies that have been inspired by scientific technique are power philosophies, and tend to regard everything non-human as mere raw material. Ends are no longer considered; only the skillfulness of the process is valued. This also is a form of madness. It is, in our day, the most dangerous form, and the one against which a sane philosophy should provide an antidote

Billy Donovan

My philosophy defensively is to try to take teams out of what they practice every single day.

My philosophy is that politicians should be jumped on as often as possible.

Bill Gates

I don't think there is any philosophy that suggests having polio is a good thing.

Bill Gates

Outlook 2003 did create the idea of search folders and the whole Longhorn philosophy. You can see it at work in search folders, where instead of having to drop things into individual folders, and things exist only in one folder, you create these search folders and you have the criteria for the search folder.

Bill Gates

Microsoft's philosophy is to 'do things better.' And Vista has given us lots of opportunity to do that.

Bob Seger

It's the age of reason for the anarchist.

Bob Seger

It's a rite of passage for the everyman, to a higher ground.

Bob Seger

He wants his home and security, he wants to live like a sailor at sea.

Bob Seger

Stood alone on a mountain top, starin' out at the Great Divide. I could go east, I could go west, it was all up to me to decide. Just then I saw a young hawk flyin' and my soul began to rise.

Bob Gibson

My pitching philosophy is simple. I believe in getting the ball over the plate and not walking a lot of men.

The questions of philosophy proper are human desires and fears and aspirations - human emotions - taking an intellectual form.

The very hope of experimental philosophy, its expectation of constructing the sciences into a true philosophy of nature, is basedon induction, or, if you please, the a priori presumption, that physical causation is universal; that the constitution of nature is written in its actual manifestations, and needs only to be deciphered by experimental and inductive research; that it is not a latent invisible writing, to be brought out by the magic of mental anticipation or metaphysical mediation.

Charlie Trotter

Fernand Point's philosophy instilled what cuisine is all about: generosity and hugeness of heart.

Carl Jung

The symbols of the self arise from the depths of the body.

Carl Jung

Madness is a special form of the spirit and clings to all teachings and philosophies, but even more to daily life, since life itself is full of craziness and at bottom utterly illogical. Man strives toward reason only so that he can make rules for himself. Life itself has no rules. That is its mystery and its unknown law. What you call knowledge is an attempt to impose something comprehensible on life.

Carl Jung

It seems as if it is only through an experience of symbolic reality that man, vainly seeking his own “existence” and making a philosophy out of it, can find his way back to a world in which he is no longer a stranger.

Bill O'Reilly

Our philosophy is we call it as we see it. Sometimes you agree, sometimes you don't. Robust debate is good.

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.

James Buchanan

Building on the public's unwillingness to act on principle in support of market solutions to apparent problems, whether real or imagined, these interest groups secure arbitrary restrictions on voluntary exchanges and, in the process, secure rents for their members while reducing both the liberties and economic well being of other members of the economic nexus, both domestically and internationally.

Robert Kiyosaki

The philosophy of the rich and the poor is this: the rich invest their money and spend what is left. The poor spend their money and invest what is left.

Northrop Frye

The disinterested imaginative core of mythology is what develops into literature, science, philosophy. Religion is applied mythology.

Bertrand Russell

Those who advocate common usage in philosophy sometimes speak in a manner that suggests the mystique of the 'common man.'