Quotes about philosophy
philosophy philosophical goal
My philosophy is inverted Platonism: the further a thing is from true being, the purer, the lovelier, the better it is. Living inillusion as a goal! Friedrich Nietzsche
philosophy world philosopher
How I understand the philosopher - as a terrible explosive, endangering everthing... my concept of the philosopher is worlds removed from any concept that would include even a Kant, not to speak of academic "ruminants" and other professors of philosophy...
philosophy lying believe
The philosopher believes that the value of his philosophy lies in the whole, in the building: posterity discovers it in the bricks with which he built and which are then often used again for better building: in the fact, that is to say, that building can be destroyed and nonetheless possess value as material.
philosophy way causes
The most perfidious way of harming a cause consists of defending it deliberately with faulty arguments.
philosophy mean evil
To recognize untruth as a condition of life--that certainly means resisting accustomed value feelings in a dangerous way; and a philosophy that risks this would by that token alone place itself beyond good and evil.
philosophy philosophical religion
The old harlot, German philosophy, has finally turned into a church lady. Franz Grillparzer
philosophy mind
Unbind your mind, there is no time. Frank Zappa
philosophy writing way
It's a sort of philosophy you cook up for yourself. You probably write things the same as everybody else, but it's your own personal way of saying things. Jim Capaldi
philosophy believe trying
I really believe in the philosophy that you create your own universe. I'm just trying to create a good one for myself. Jim Carrey
philosophy ifs
Everyone is from somewhere, even if you've never been there. Jethro Tull
philosophy worry too-much
If asked my philosophy, it would be simply this: Savor life, don't press too hard, don't worry too much. Jerry Weintraub
philosophy homeless ownership
Persons who have been homeless carry within them a certain philosophy of life which makes them apprehensive about ownership. Jerzy Kosinski
philosophy people movement
The most disappointing feature of working for a cause is that so few people have a philosophy of life. We used to say, in the suffrage movement, that we could trust the woman who believed in suffrage, but we could never trust the woman who just wanted to vote. Jeannette Rankin
philosophy heart caring
If you open your heart, then the object of your love becomes so precious because you are so open. And that philosophy, that caring, spreads. Jeff Bridges
philosophy doe helping
Philosophy which does not help to illuminate the process of the liberation of the oppressed should be rejected. Jean-Paul Sartre
philosophy thinking complaining
It is therefore senseless to think of complaining since nothing foreign has decided what we feel, what we live, or what we are.
philosophy war philosophical
When rich people fight wars with one another, poor people are the ones to die.
philosophy philosophical want
We do not know what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are - that is the fact.
philosophy wind differences
It is through an "intimate cessation of all intellectual operations" that the mind is laid bare. If nor, discourse maintains it in its little complacency. ... The difference between inner experience and philosophy resides principally in this: that in experience, ... what counts is no longer the statement of wind, but the wind. Georges Bataille
philosophy missing heirs
Philosophy ... finds itself to be no longer anything but the heir to a fabulous mystical theology, but missing a God and wiping the slate clean.
philosophy men hands
[F]or academic men to be happy, the universe would have to take shape. All of philosophy has no other goal: it is a matter of giving a frock coat to what is, a mathematical frock coat. On the other hand, affirming that the universe resembles nothing and is only formless amounts to saying that the universe is something like a spider or spit.
philosophy trying easy
Lighten up while you still can, don't even try to understand. Just find a place to make your stand, and take it easy. Jackson Browne
philosophy world remember
We must remember that nothing in this world really belongs to us. At best, we are merely borrowers. Christopher Isherwood
philosophy issues way
One of the great questions of philosophy is, do we innately have morality, or do we get it from celestial dictation? A study of the Ten Commandments is a very good way of getting into and resolving that issue. Christopher Hitchens
philosophy school may
No school of philosophy has ever solved this question of whether being determines consciousness or the other way around. It may be a false antithesis.
philosophy
Love, come and get it, it's free. George Harrison
philosophy love-is
My life belongs to me, my love belongs to those who can see it.
philosophy space faces
The action that I've started, sometime I'll have to face. My influence in motion, rebounding back through space.
philosophy heart care
There's a bottomless heart hooked into all of you and it's wondering how much you care.
philosophy music-and-lyrics indian
My music and lyrics became an extension of this Indian philosophy. Gary Wright
philosophy people trying
Three-fourths of philosophy and literature is the talk of people trying to convince themselves that they really like the cage they were tricked into entering. Gary Snyder
philosophy two half
Two half philosophers will probably never a whole metaphysician make. Gaston Bachelard
philosophy past preparation
The philosophy of poetry must acknowledge that the poetic act has no past, at least no recent past, in which its preparation and appearance could be followed.