Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mikhail Gorbachev

In principle as a philosophy, a model of organising society, Communism has to be respected. As regards the use of certain methods to advance social justice and greater regulation by the state, there are certain methods that are useful. What we need is a new society, a new civilization and convergence of all that is best in both [Communism and Capitalism]

Miguel de Unamuno

If a philosopher is not a man, he is anything but a philosopher; he is above all a pedant, and a pedant is a caricature of a man.

Miguel de Unamuno

Philosophy fulfills the need to create for ourselves a single and complete concept of the world and of life.

Neil Armstrong

Through books you will meet poets and novelists whose creations will fire your imagination. You will meet the great thinkers who will share with you their philosophies, their concepts of the world, of humanity and of creation. You will learn about events that have shaped our history, of deeds both noble and ignoble. All of this knowledge is yours for the taking… Your library is a storehouse for mind and spirit. Use it well.

Mitt Romney

If a society takes it upon itself to prescribe and proscribe certain streams of belief - to prohibit certain less-favored strains of conscience - it may be the non-believer who is among the first to be condemned. A coercive monopoly of belief threatens everyone, whether we are talking about those who search the philosophies of men or follow the words of God.

R. A. Torrey

For eighteen centuries every engine of destruction that human science, philosophy, wit, reasoning or brutality could bring to bear against a book has been brought to bear against that book to stamp it out of the world, but it has a mightier hold on the world today than ever before. If that were man's book it would have been annihilated and forgotten hundreds of years ago...

R. D. Laing

Philosophy does not exist. It is nothing but an hypostatized abstraction.

R. Buckminster Fuller

Bite your tongue. Get a cinder in your eye. When you feel good, you feel nothing.

R. Buckminster Fuller

You can't better the world by simply talking to it. Philosophy to be effective must be mechanically applied.

Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

It is a proof of philosophical mediocrity, today, to look for a philosophy.

Orel Hershiser

My main philosophy is that money is a loan from God. I'm in charge of it. I'm responsible for investin it, giving some of it away, providing for my family, and protecting it.

Omar Sharif

My philosophy is that when I go out of my room, I'm prepared to love everybody I meet, unless they're bad.

Oprah Winfrey

With every failure, every crisis, every difficult time, I say - What is this here to teach me? And as soon as you get the lesson, you get to move on. If you really get the lesson, you pass and you don't have to repeat the class. My philosophy is that not only are you responsible for your life, but doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment

Oliver Hudson

Parent hard, play hard. That's my philosophy.

Oliver Goldsmith

Philosophy can add to our happiness in no other manner but by diminishing our misery; it should not pretend to increase our present stock, but make us economists of what we are possessed of. Happy were we all born philosophers; all born with a talent of thus dissipating our own cares by spreading them upon all mankind.

Oliver Goldsmith

All that philosophy can teach is to be stubborn or sullen under misfortunes.

Oliver Goldsmith

Religion does what philosophy could never do; it shows the equal dealings of Heaven to the happy and the unhappy, and levels all human enjoyments to nearly the same standard. It gives to both rich and poor the same happiness hereafter, and equal hopes to aspire after it.

Oliver Goldsmith

Philosophy ... should not pretend to increase our present stock, but make us economists of what we are possessed of.

Oliver Goldsmith

To a philosopher no circumstance, however trifling, is too minute.

Margaret Atwood

I tried for the longest time to find out what deconstructionism was. Nobody was able to explain it to me clearly. The best answer I got was from a writer, who said, 'Honey, it's bad news for you and me.

Margaret Atwood

Touch comes before sight, before speech. It is the first language and the last, and it always tells the truth.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

To study philosophy is nothing but to prepare one’s self to die.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

O philosophy, life's guide! O searcher-out of virtue and expeller of vices! What could we and every age of men have been without thee? Thou hast produced cities; thou hast called men scattered about into the social enjoyment of life. [Lat., O vitae philosophia dux! O virtutis indagatrix, expultrixque vitiorum! Quid non modo nos, sed omnino vita hominum sine et esse potuisset? Tu urbes peperisti; tu dissipatos homines in societatum vitae convocasti.]

Marcus Tullius Cicero

The science of love is the philosophy of the heart

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Not cohabitation but consensus constitutes marriage.

Marc Webb

One of my life philosophies is that you have a choice to make when youre doing something creative. You can be cheesy... or you can be lame.

Marc Benioff

I've seen how important this concept is in business. To be truly successful, companies need to have a corporate mission that is bigger than making a profit. We try to follow that at salesforce.com, where we give 1% of our equity, 1% of our profits, and 1% of our employees' time to the community. By integrating philanthropy into our business model our employees feel that they do much more than just work at our company. By sharing a common and important mission, we are united and focused, and have found a secret weapon that ensures we always win.

Marc Benioff

The concept that I like the most, and the one that I've taken most to heart, is the belief that people can't be united or focused unless they share a common philosophy-a philosophy that gives their effort a greater meaning.

Khloe Kardashian

I think - and even with the Live Chin Up movement - it's about women doing things for themselves. Being empowered. Doing things that make you happy. I believe in that philosophy.

Kid Rock

I get a feeling of peace from a low so high, as I sit in my chair and watch life go by.

Kevin McCloud

Every decently-made object, from a house to a lamp post to a bridge, spoon or egg cup, is not just a piece of 'stuff' but a physical embodiment of human energy, testimony to the magical ability of our species to take raw materials and turn them into things of use, value and beauty.

Kenny Loggins

No one can tell what the future holds, you're backs to the corner, you make the choice of how it goes.

Kenny Loggins

I'm alright, nobody worry about me. Why you gotta gimme a fight? Can't you just let it be.