Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ralph Waldo Emerson

To the poet, to the philosopher, to the saint, all things are friendly and sacred, all events profitable, all days holy, all men divine.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Live in the fields, and God will give you lectures on natural philosophy every day.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Why should not we have a poetry and philosophy of insight and not of tradition, and a religion by revelation to us, and not the history of theirs?

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The civility of no race can be perfect whilst another race is degraded. It is a doctrine alike of the oldest and of the newest philosophy, that man is one, and that you cannot injure any member, without a sympathetic injury to all the members

Saul Kripke

Logical investigations can obviously be a useful tool for philosophy. They must, however, be informed by a sensitivity to the philosophical significance of the formalism and by a generous admixture of common sense, as well as a thorough understanding both of the basic concepts and of the technical details of the formal material used. It should not be supposed that the formalism can grind out philosophical results in a manner beyond the capacity of ordinary philosophical reasoning. There is no mathematical substitute for philosophy.

Scarlett Thomas

You can't do science in a novel, but you can do philosophy. Or, if you're really lucky, you can manage to pose a question in such a way that other people will take it on.

Lin Yutang

Any good practical philosophy must start out with the recognition of our having a body.

Lin Yutang

To me personally the only function of philosophy is to teach us to take life more lightly and gayly than the average businessman does, for no businessman who does not retire at fifty, if he can, is in my eyes a philosopher.

Lin Yutang

There is more hope in a heather rose than in all the tons of Teutonic philosophy.

Lin Yutang

I rather despise claims to objectivity in philosophy; the point of view is the thing.

Lin Yutang

Let us face ourselves bravely as we are. For only a philosophy that recognizes reality can lead us into true happiness, and only that kind of philosophy is sound and healthy.

Lin Yutang

There is a great probability that our loss of capacity for enjoying the positive joys of life is largely due to the decreased sensibility of our senses and our lack of full use of them. All human happiness is sensuous happiness.

Stephen Jay Gould

I emphatically do not assert the general 'truth' of this philosophy of punctuational change. Any attempt to support the exclusive validity of such a grandiose notion would border on the nonsensical.

The Yankees' philosophy has always been quality pitching and timely hitting. I don't know if we have the pitching this year.

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

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.

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.

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.