Famous Quotes & Sayings

Noah Webster

Every civil government is based upon some religion or philosophy of life. Education in a nation will propagate the religion of that nation. In America, the foundational religion was Christianity. And it was sown in the hearts of Americans through the home and private and public schools for centuries. Our liberty, growth, and prosperity was the result of a Biblical philosophy of life. Our continued freedom and success is dependent on our educating the youth of America in the principles of Christianity.

Mike Pence

Whether it's called 'compassionate conservatism' or 'big government Republicanism,' after years of record increases in federal spending, more government is now the accepted Republican philosophy in Washington.

Joey McIntyre

Don't ever wish you were someone else, you were meant to be the way you are exactly.

Joe Namath

My philosophy in life, where I was trying to get, could have been a little bit different.

John Grierson

Some of us learned in a school of philosophy which taught that all was for the common good and nothing for oneself and have never, in any case, regarded the pursuit of happiness as anything other than an aberration of the human spirit.

Patti Smith

Words are just rules and regulations to me.

Patti Smith

These are the times, the times of our own, these are the shapes the world we formed.

Patti Smith

I don't like answering to other people's philosophies. I don't have any philosophy, I just believe in stuff. Either I believe in something or I don't. Like, I believe in the Rolling Stones but not in the Dave Clark Five. There's nothing philosophic about it. Whenever I'm linked with a movement, it pisses me off.

Mary Ritter Beard

Unless one's philosophy is all-inclusive, nothing can be understood.

Mary Ritter Beard

Every great creative idea, formulated as a philosophy, has a social setting - in time, in a geographical location, in a political economy, in a matrix of interests and knowledge. It is not a free-swinging phenomenon like a balloon without moorings. It is not produced in a vacuum and, being creative, it does not work in a vacuum. Nurtured on things experienced and things known, it reaches out toward the unknown like a flower on a stalk growing out of the soil.

Mary Roberts Rinehart

There is no place in the world, I imagine, for a philosopher with a sense of humor, a new leisure, and an inquiring turn of mind!

Martin Heidegger

he who thinks great thoughts often makes great errors

Martin Heidegger

Philosophy will not be able to effect an immediate transformation of the present condition of the world. This is not only true of philosophy, but of all merely human thought and endeavor.

Martin Heidegger

Nevertheless, the ultimate business of philosophy is to preserve the force of the most elemental words in which Dasein expresses itself, and to keep the common understanding from levelling them off to that unintelligibility which functions in turn as a source of pseudo-problems.

Martin Heidegger

What is peddled about nowadays as philosophy, especially that of N.S., but has nothing to do with the inner truth and greatness of that movement is nothing but fishing in that troubled sea of values and totalities.

Martin Heidegger

Why are there beings at all, instead of Nothing?

Marquis de Sade

They declaim against the passions without bothering to think that it is from their flame philosophy lights its torch.

Marquis de Sade

The ultimate triumph of philosophy would be to cast light upon the mysterious ways in which Providence moves to achieve the designs it has for man.

Mark Messier

Coaching really is an individual philosophy.

Mark Messier

You always really have to remain consistent in your beliefs and philosophy.

Nick Offerman

I became very interested [in philosophy] after attending the U.N. Conference on sustainable development in Brazil.I'm very concerned about climate change and the world reaching a tipping point. And, I see other people who really just want to survive to make it to the next election, rather than making means of change.

Marvin Bower

Basic philosophy, spirit and drive of an organization have far more to do with its relative achievements than do technological or economic resources, organizational structure, innovation and timing.

Nawal El Saadawi

If you do not love yourself, well, you cannot do anything well, that's my philosophy.

Muhammad Iqbal

Words, without power, is mere philosophy.

Muhammad Iqbal

The spirit of philosophy is one of free inquiry. It suspects all authority. Its function is to trace the uncritical assumptions of human thought to their hiding places, and in this pursuit it may finally end in denial or a frank admission of the incapacity of pure reason to reach the ultimate reality.

Muhammad Iqbal

When truth has no burning, then it is philosophy, when it gets burning from the heart, it becomes poetry.

Oscar Wilde

My philosophy? I'm always right and you are wrong.

Oscar Wilde

Philosophy is like a normal personal organizer, but it's smaller than a matchbox.

Oscar Wilde

Philosophies fall away like sand, and creeds follow on another like the withered leaves of Autumn.

Oscar Wilde

That is what the highest criticism really is, the record of one's own soul. It is more fascinating than history, as it is concerned simply with oneself. It is more delightful than philosophy, as its subject is concrete and not abstract, real and not vague. It is the only civilized form of autobiography.

Oscar Wilde

Philosophy teaches us to bear with equanimity the misfortunes of others.

Madonna Ciccone

If you have to ask for something more than once or twice, it wasn't yours in the first place. And that's hard to accept when you love someone.

Madonna Ciccone

You only see what your eyes want to see. How can life be what you want it to be?