Famous Quotes & Sayings

Steven Pinker

As every student in Philosophy 101 learns, nothing can force me to believe that anyone except me is conscious. This power to deny that other people have feelings is not just an academic exercise but an all-too-common vice, as we see in the long history of human cruelty.

Sun Myung Moon

Anyone can keep going in an easy situation, but do you have a philosophy which can enable you to meet the worst hardship?

Stuart Chase

For the individual, as I can testify, a brief grounding in semantics, besides making philosophy unreadable, makes unreadable most political speeches, classical economic theory, after-dinner oratory, diplomatic notes, newspaper editorials, treatises on pedagogics and education, expert financial comment, dissertations on money and credit, accounts of debates, and Great Thoughts from Great Thinkers in general. You would be surprised at the amount of time this saves.

Stevie Ray Vaughan

That's how it happens, livin life by the drop.

Ridley Scott

Yes, obviously, there's this degree of wanting people to accept other people faiths and philosophies.

Raymond Carver

Ralph also took some classes in philosophy and literature and felt himself on the brink of some kind of huge discovery about himself. But it never came.

Sammy Hagar

I had been reading this book about Zen Koan philosophy, and it was talking about the right here and the right now, and how important it is, and I was really trying to get there in my life.

Tariq Ramadan

Unfortunately there are some trends that are changing this but you don't have for example as strict and narrow understanding of the relationship between men and women. And then there is the philosophy we have to extract in the relationship between text and culture.

Tariq Ramadan

We must re-center philosophy within our frame of reference which I think is the way to deal with it.

Tariq Ramadan

The philosophy of fasting calls upon us to know ourselves, to master ourselves, and to discipline ourselves the better to free ourselves. To fast is to identify our dependencies, and free ourselves from them.

Damien Woody

It's early. How many teams do you know their philosophy in Week 2?

They have their system and their philosophy, and they're willing to stick by it,

The terminology and the signals were going to be different, but the philosophy was the same,

Edward Tufte

The know-your-audience philosophy can be a big step down the road to pandering to the audience.

Steve McNair

Everybody's got their own philosophy on durability. Fortunately for him, he hasn't got hurt, and so be it. But if he was specifically talking about me, that's no problem with me.

It's always been Tom's philosophy and to this day that if we are going to do it -- we are going to do it right.

Elle Macpherson

It's like the underwear in the sense that they are premium products at competitive prices. I spent a long time researching the products, and the philosophy is the same as the lingerie.

Janeane Garofalo

I would say that, unfortunately, the word liberal has been redefined over the last 30 years as if it is a bad thing. But liberalism is a great American philosophy. Being a liberal is one of the best things you can be. I don't think they get a fair shake at all in the conservative mainstream media. So maybe there's some intimidation there.

Janet Evanovich

Ranger declined the butterscotch pudding, not wanting to disrupt the consistency of his blood sugar level. I had two puddings and coffee, choosing to keep my pancreas at peak performance. Use it or lose it is my philosophy.

Ernie Banks

It's a kind of philosophy of my own life, to create the energy enough to keep on going.

Ernest Bramah

The province of philosophy is not so much to prevent calamities befalling as to demonstrate that they are blessings when they have taken place.

Ernest Dimnet

All serious conversations gravitate towards philosophy.

Evan Parker

You know, the whole philosophy of ad hoc combinations has its strengths and its weaknesses.

Christopher Hitchens

Religion is part of the human make-up. It's also part of our cultural and intellectual history. Religion was our first attempt at literature, the texts, our first attempt at cosmology, making sense of where we are in the universe, our first attempt at health care, believing in faith healing, our first attempt at philosophy.

Mindy Grossman

I've always had a philosophy that position doesn't define power. Impact defines power. What impact are you making on people? What impact are you making on business?

Mindy Cohn

So that's my philosophy: If you believe in yourself, the chances and the opportunities will come around.

Kumail Nanjiani

Philosophy is problem-solving. There's a philosophical problem, and then you try to solve it by approaching it from different angles and seeing what way works. That's what comedy is: you have a topic and you try to just hit it as many different ways as you can.

Kirk Douglas

You know, you have to have some inner philosophy to deal with adversity.

Kirsten Dunst

I like to think that death gives life meaning. I like that philosophy.

Moliere

The defects of human nature afford us opportunities of exercising our philosophy, the best employment of our virtues. If all men were righteous, all hearts true and frank and loyal, what use would our virtues be?

Milton Friedman

My interest in political philosophy was rather casual until I met Hayek.

Milton Friedman

Doing good with other people's money has two basic flaws. In the first place, you never spend anybody else's money as carefully as you spend your own. So a large fraction of that money is inevitably wasted. In the second place, and equally important, you cannot do good with other people's money unless you first get the money away from them. So that force - sending a policeman to take the money from somebody's pocket - is fundamentally at the basis of the philosophy of the welfare state.

Milton Friedman

The heart of the liberal philosophy is a belief in the dignity of the individual, in his freedom to make the most of his capacities and opportunities according to his own lights...This implies a belief in the equality of man in one sense; in their inequality in another.