Quotes about philosophy
philosophy empowering needs
we ask for too much salvation by legislation. All we need to do is empower individuals with the right philosophy and the right information to opt out en masse. (quoting Joel Salatin) Michael Pollan
philosophy use fund
The philosophy to 'buy and hold' is a philosophy that I use to manage funds. Michael Lee-Chin
philosophy men lame
Touch a man who can't walk up right, and that lame man, he's gonna fly. Neil Diamond
philosophy doors size
Shame, it comes in every size, touches many lives, knocks on many doors. Neil Diamond
philosophy blue jeans
Money talks, but it don't sing and dance, and it don't walk. And long as I can have you here with me, I'd much rather be, forever in blue jeans. Neil Diamond
philosophy unique priorities-in-life
I have a personal philosophy in life: If somebody else can do something that I'm doing, they should do it. And what I want to do is find things that would represent a unique contribution to the world-the contribution that only I, and my portfolio of talents, can make happen. Those are my priorities in life. Neil deGrasse Tyson
philosophy thinking drunk
It's progress I think, that science has joined philosophy, metaphysics & religion as subjects drunk people argue about in bars. Neil deGrasse Tyson
philosophy important movement
The moment when someone attaches you to a philosophy or a movement, then they assign all the baggage and all the rest of the philosophy that goes with it to you. And when you want to have a conversation, they will assert that they already know everything important there is to know about you because of that association. And that's not the way to have a conversation. Neil deGrasse Tyson
philosophy science technology
My view is that if your philosophy is not unsettled daily then you are blind to all the universe has to offer. Neil deGrasse Tyson
philosophy ignorance intelligent
Intelligent design is a philosophy of ignorance. Neil deGrasse Tyson
philosophy knowledge kids
For me, I am driven by two main philosophies: know more today about the world than I knew yesterday and lessen the suffering of others. You'd be surprised how far that gets you. Neil deGrasse Tyson
philosophy grief farewell
You mourn, for it is proper to mourn. But your grief serves you; you do not become a slave to grief. You bid the dead farewell, and you continue. Neil Gaiman
philosophy moving different
Our philosophy is about reaching back to move forward. We have something different to say with a sensibility that is both old and new. John Varvatos
philosophy rain anger
The society which scorns excellence in plumbing as a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exalted activity will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy: neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water. John W. Gardner
philosophy learning science
The dairy man had a Ph.D. in mathematics, and he must have had some training in philosophy. He liked what he was doing and he didn't want to be somewhere else - one of the few contented people I met in my whole journey. John Steinbeck
philosophy political secret
Libertarians secretly worried that ultimately someone will figure out the whole of their political philosophy boils down to 'get off my property.' News flash: This is not really a big secret to the rest of us. John Scalzi
philosophy men crime-novels
Don't Shoot is a work of moral philosophy that reads like a crime novel - Immanuel Kant meets Joseph Wambaugh. It's a fascinating, inspiring, and wonderfully well written story of one man's quest to solve a problem no one thought could be solved: the scourge of inner city gang violence This is a vitally important work that has the potential to usher in a new era in policing. John Seabrook
philosophy law done
All laws and philosophy merely tell us what should be done, but they do not provide the strength to do it. Martin Luther
philosophy thinking power-corrupts
It's very hard to operate on a general philosophy of power. They say that power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely, but I don't agree with that. I think you have to be corrupted to be corrupted by power. Mark Pellegrino
philosophy evil empires
There's no longer a monolithic evil empire somewhere, spreading a different philosophy of life. That doesn't exist. Seth Gordon
philosophy believe minorities
We have a small faction, and they are a minority, who believe they are there to govern. Then there is the majority of us who believe that indeed we are there to govern but more importantly we are there to be an opposition to the Democratic philosophy and the only way to do that is through confrontation. Tom DeLay
philosophy book fiction
Every day, I read books on philosophy and science fiction and human consciousness. Tom DeLonge
philosophy angel reflection
Angels and Airwaves is a complete, pure reflection of who I am. The philosophy, the spiritualism, the esotericism, the idea of hope and space and the themes about life and grandeur that's all me. Tom DeLonge
philosophy moon president
Wishing won't make it so Hoping won't do it, praying won't do it Religion won't do it, philosophy won't do it The Supreme Court won't do it, the President and the Congress won't do it The UN won't do it, the H-bomb won't do it, the sun and the moon won't do it And God won't do it, and I certainly won't do it That leaves you, you'll have to do it Todd Rundgren
philosophy thinking tasks
I think that the task of philosophy is not to provide answers, but to show how the way we perceive a problem can be itself part of a problem. Slavoj Zizek
philosophy philosopher can-do
What we philosophers can do is just correct the questions. Slavoj Zizek
philosophy somewhere-else space
Philosophers are never happy here. Now is not their time, and here is not their space. They live there, they live somewhere else. Rajneesh
philosophy past years
Your religions are boring you, your philosophies are boring you, your scriptures are boring you. Thousands of years of the past are the cause of your boredom. You cannot dance - you are chained to the past, you are imprisoned in the past. Rajneesh
philosophy relaxation poetic
God is a synergetic experience. Science can never reveal it, philosophy can never come to it - only a poetic approach, a very passive, very loving approach, can. Rajneesh
philosophy cutting gun
Cut throats, gun smoke, dope, and hoes, is what controls niggas souls. Snoop Dogg
philosophy love-you teaching
Men of Athens, I honor and love you; but I shall obey God rather than you, and while I have life and strength I shall never cease from the practice and teaching of philosophy. Socrates
philosophy medicine psychology
Besides, it is a shame to let yourself grow old through neglect before seeing how you can develop the maximum beauty and strength of body; and you can have this experience if your are negligent, because these things don't normally happen by themselves. Socrates
philosophy people dying
Ordinary people seem not to realize that those who really apply themselves in the right way to philosophy are directly and of their own accord preparing themselves for dying and death. Socrates