Famous Quotes & Sayings

Epictetus

Here is the beginning of philosophy: a recognition of the conflicts between men, a search for their cause, a condemnation of mere opinion .. . and the discovery of a standard of judgement.

Epictetus

If you set your heart upon philosophy, you must straightway prepare yourself to be laughed at and mocked by many who will say Behold a philosopher arisen among us! or How came you by that brow of scorn? But do you cherish no scorn, but hold to those things which seem to you the best, as one set by God in that place. Remember too, that if you abide in those ways, those who first mocked you, the same shall afterwards reverence you; but if you yield to them, you will be laughed at twice as much as before.

Epictetus

If anyone tells you that a certain person speaks ill of you, do not make excuses about what is said of you but answer, "He was ignorant of my other faults, else he would not have mentioned these alone.

Epictetus

A vulgar man, in any ill that happens to him, blames others; a novice in philosophy blames himself; and a philosopher blames neither, the one nor the other.

Emily Dickinson

A dim capacity for wings demeans the dress I wear.

Emeril Lagasse

My philosophy from day one is that I can sleep better at night if I can improve an individual's knowledge about food and wine, and do it on a daily basis.

Emeril Lagasse

Music is one of those things that is constantly going in my head all the time. It's sort of like the evolution and creation of doing food, or my philosophy about wine. It's always beating in my head, so it keeps the spirit moving.

Henry Steele Commager

And we wonder what can be that 'philosophy of education' which believes that young people can be trained to the duties of citizenship by wrapping their minds in cotton wool.

Hippolyte Taine

Man may be considered as a superior species of animal that produces philosophies and poems in about the same way a silkworm produces their cocoons and bees their hives.

Henry Ford

The basically simple things are best, whether it's automobiles or diets or philosophy.

Helen Slater

I'm very passionate about philosophy and religion.

Hilaire Belloc

Under the old philosophy which had governed the high Middle Ages things had been everywhere towards a condition of Society in which property was well distributed throughout the community, and thus the family rendered independent.

Heraclitus

A dry soul is wisest and best.

Heraclitus

From out of all the many particulars comes oneness, and out of oneness come all the many particulars.

Heraclitus

One cannot step twice in the same river

Heraclitus

The way up and the way down are one and the same.

Heinz Pagels

Science is expanding, and with it our vision of the universe. although this new and constantly changing view may not always give us comfort, it does have the virtue of truth according to our most effective resources for acquiring knowledge. No philosophy, moral outlook, or religion can be inconsistent with the findings of science and hope to endure among educated people.

Helen Clark

Never look back' is my philosophy.

Johann Heinrich Lambert

I bought some books in order to learn the first principles of philosophy.

Johann Gottlieb Fichte

By philosophy the mind of man comes to itself, and from henceforth rests on itself without foreign aid, and is completely master of itself, as the dancer of his feet, or the boxer of his hands.

Johann Gottlieb Fichte

What sort of philosophy one chooses depends, therefore, on what sort of man one is; for a philosophical system is not a dead piece of furniture that we can reject or accept as we wish; it is rather a thing animated by the soul of the person who holds it.

Johann Gottlieb Fichte

What sort of philosophy one chooses depends on what sort of person one is.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

True philosophy is that which renders us to ourselves, and all others who surround us, better, and at the same time more content, more patient, more calm and more ready for all decent and pure enjoyment.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Time does not relinquish its rights, either over human beings or over mountains.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I have, alas! Philosophy, Medicine, Jurisprudence too, And to my cost Theology, With ardent labor, studied through. And here I stand, with all my lore, Poor fool, no wiser than before.

Kurt Bills

My hope is that people begin to understand what the fiscal realities are - how economic virtue differs from political virtue - and develop a realization of their individual economic philosophy in comparison to their perceived political ideology.

Khalil Gibran

Philosophy began when man ate the produce of the earth and suffered indigestion.

Khalil Gibran

Philosophy's work is finding the shortest path between two points.

Khalil Gibran

There is a desire deep within the soul which drives man from the seen to the unseen, to philosophy and to the divine.

Jonathan Safran Foer

But when, at the end of my sophomore year, I became a philosophy major and started doing my first seriously pretentious thinking, I became a vegetarian again. The kind of willful forgetting that I was sure meat eating required felt too paradoxical to the intellectual life I was trying to shape. I thought life could, should, and must conform to the mold of reason. You can imagine how annoying this made me.

Narendra Modi

India is a civilization where the principle and philosophy of sacrifice is ingrained as part of our upbringing.

Narendra Modi

Good Governance cannot remain merely a philosophy. Concrete steps have to be taken for realizing its goals.

Narendra Modi

Yoga is a philosophy of discipline and meditation that transforms the spirit and makes the individual a better person in thought, action, knowledge and devotion.