Famous Quotes & Sayings

Nat King Cole

If you smile through your fear and sorrow, smile and maybe tomorrow you'll see the sun come shining through for you.

Morris Raphael Cohen

It has generally been assumed that of two opposing systems of philosophy, e.g., realism and idealism, one only can be true and one must be false; and so philosophers have been hopelessly divided on the question, which is the true one.

Morris Raphael Cohen

Lastly, literature and philosophy both allow past idols to be resurrected with a frequency which would be truly distressing to a sober scientist.

Morris Raphael Cohen

Again, both literature and philosophy work by appealing to certain reigning idols.

Miranda Kerr

I live by the philosophy that beauty starts from within, and I make a conscious effort to fill my body with nutrients through the food I eat.

Mignon McLaughlin

We come late, if at all, to wine and philosophy: whiskey and action are easier.

Mignon McLaughlin

Philosophy teaches a man that he can't take it with him; taxes teach him he can't leave it behind either.

John Wright

Ours is a very eclectic offering. We're affiliated with the church but we're not just offering church music. Our philosophy is that we wanted to bring quality music to the entire valley and let everyone enjoy it since we have a fine venue.

John Yarmuth

I know that in the battle of ideas, Republican politicians are at a distinct disadvantage. Their fundamental philosophy - which I characterize as survival of the fittest, richest and whitest - is too callous for most Americans.

John Wilmot

Books bear him up a while, and make him try to swim with bladders of philosophy.

John Prine

Bewildered, bewildered, you have no complaint. You are what you are, and you ain't what you ain't.

John Prine

The scientific nature of the ordinary man is to go out and do the best you can.

Lou Rawls

I want to be happy and free, living and loving for me.

Louis Althusser

Without claiming to be exhaustive, I maintain that every philosophy reproduces within itself, in one way or another, the conflict in which it finds itself compromised and caught up in the outside world.

Louis Althusser

One of the goals of philosophy is wage theoretical battle. That is why we can say that every thesis is always, by its very nature, an antithesis. A thesis is only ever put forward in opposition to another thesis, or in defence of a new one.

Louis Althusser

Philosophy is, in the last instance, class struggle in the field of theory.

Lou Reed

Underachievers of the world unite, you have nothing to lose except your fright.

Lou Reed

The only thing constantly changing is change, and change is always changing for the worse.

Lou Reed

I want the principles of a timeless muse, I want to eradicate my negative views.

Lou Reed

The injuries we do in kind are visited upon us often. In the science of the mind, trying hard to move a shadow.

Lou Reed

Life's like a mayonnaise soda.

LL Cool J

Money is small and the soul stands tall. All those who don't realize this, fall.

Lucy Larcom

Whatever science and philosophy may do for mankind, the world can never outgrow its need of the simplicity that is in Christ.

Lou Holtz

My philosophy in life is, Decide what you want to do. You have to have something to hope for.

John Fogerty

Mr. Greed, why do you have to own everything that you see?

Jonathan Krohn

I'd like to do policy and I'd like to do philosophy, I'd like to be able to get into the depth, into the meat of the argument - that's the kind of stuff I want to do.

Jonathan Frakes

One of my philosophies as a director is to listen to other people's great ideas because they'll help make you better.

Jonathan Haidt

If you are in passionate love and want to celebrate your passion, read poetry. If your ardor has calmed and you want to understand your evolving relationship, read psychology. But if you have just ended a relationship and would like to believe you are better off without love, read philosophy.

Jonas Salk

What is … important is that we — number one: Learn to live with each other. Number two: try to bring out the best in each other. The best from the best, and the best from those who, perhaps, might not have the same endowment. And so this bespeaks an entirely different philosophy — a different way of life — a different kind of relationship — where the object is not to put down the other, but to raise up the other.

Jonas Salk

I speak about universal evolution and teleological evolution; because I think the process of evolution reflects the wisdom of nature. I see the need for wisdom to become operative. We need to try to put all of these things together in what I call an evolutionary philosophy of our time.

Jonah Goldberg

But this is the kind of ass-clownery that stems from the fact that all philosophy looks weird when you don't have one.

John Kluge

My philosophy all my life has been the pursuit of excellence.

John L. Lewis

The real breeders of discontent and alien doctrines of government and philosophies subversive of good citizenship are such as these who take the law into their own hands.