Quotes about philosophy
philosophy europe america
Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy. Margaret Thatcher
philosophy america europe
Europe will never be like America. Europe is a product of history. America is a product of philosophy.
philosophy self abuse
My philosophy is, "murder the rapist in your mind so you stop killing yourself." I've seen, in my lifetime, that sexual abuse has turned into self-abuse. When I kill the rapist inside of me, I will stop killing myself. Margaret Cho
philosophy moving minorities
We must set an example now and move environmentalism from being the philosophy of a passionate minority ... to a way of life that automatically integrates ecology into governmental policy and normal living standards. Leonardo DiCaprio
philosophy painting despise
He who despises painting has no love for the philosophy in nature. Leonardo da Vinci
philosophy knowing ends
Oh! Speculators on things, boast not of knowing the things that nature ordinarily brings about; but rejoice if you know the end of those things which you yourself device.
philosophy decision path
There is no shorter path for joining a neutral existential anthropology, according to philosophy, with the existential decision before God, according to the Bible. Paul Ricoeur
philosophy men blue
You are to consider that a certain melancholy and often a certain irascibility accompany advancing age: indeed it might be said that advancing age equals ill-temper. On reaching the middle years a man perceives that he is no longer able to do certain things, that what looks he may have had are deserting him, that he has a ponderous great belly, and that however much he may yet burn he is no longer attractive to women; and he rebels. Fortitude, resignation and philosophy are of more value than any pills, red, white or blue. Patrick O'Brian
philosophy reality blessing
the blessings of matrimony, like those of poverty, belong rather to philosophy than reality. Letitia Elizabeth Landon
philosophy might fundamentals
My fundamental philosophy is that you owe it to society to transfer to them any knowledge you have that might be useful. Leroy Hood
philosophy mistake class
The bourgeoisie, which far surpasses the proletariat in the completeness and irreconcilibility of its class consciousness, is vitally interested in imposing its moral philosophy upon the exploited masses. It is exactly for this purpose that the concrete norms of the bourgeois catechism are concealed under moral abstractions...The appeal to abstract norms is not a disinterested philosophic mistake but a necessary element in the mechanics of class deception. Leon Trotsky
philosophy thinking people
I shiver, thinking how easy it is to be totally wrong about people-to see one tiny part of them and confuse it for the whole, to see the cause and think it's the effect or vice versa Lauren Oliver
philosophy thinking way
I think the way IBM has embraced the open source philosophy has been quite astonishing, but gratifying. I hope they'll do very well with it. Larry Wall
philosophy people literature
The proverbial philosophy of a people helps us to understand more about them than any other kind of literature. Lafcadio Hearn
philosophy believe rights
The trouble is with socialism , which resembles a form of mental illness more than it does a philosophy. Socialists get bees in their bonnets. And because they chronically lack any critical faculty to examine and evaluate their ideas, and because they are pathologically unwilling to consider the opinions of others, and most of all, because socialism is a mindset that regards the individual and his rights as insignificant, compared to whatever the socialist believes the group needs, terrible, terrible things happen when socialists acquire power. L. Neil Smith
philosophy thinking people
People think the free market is a philosophy, they think that it is a creed. It is none of those things. Free market is a bathroom scale, it is a measuring tape, it's simply a measurement. P. J. O'Rourke
philosophy believe silly
What a silly thing love is!' said the student as he walked away. 'It is not half as useful as logic, for it does not prove anything, and it is always telling one of things that are not going to happen, and making one believe things that are not true. In fact, it is quite unpractical, and, as in this age to be practical is everything, I shall go back to philosophy and study metaphysics.' So he returned to his room and pulled out a great dusty book, and began to read. Oscar Wilde
philosophy reading writing
When I'm not writing, I read loads of fiction, but I've been writing quite constantly lately so I've been reading a lot of nonfiction - philosophy, religion, science, history, social or cultural studies. Irvine Welsh
philosophy moving literature
In philosophy if you aren't moving at a snail's pace you aren't moving at all. Iris Murdoch
philosophy views political
We need a moral philosophy which can speak significantly of Freud and Marx and out of which aesthetic and political views can be generated. We need a moral philosophy in which the concept of love, so rarely mentioned now, can once again be made central.
philosophy men thinking
Philosophy! Empty thinking by ignorant conceited men who think they can digest without eating!
philosophy thinking ideas
I think philosophy is extremely good training for anyone who wants to do anything. Although that is an idea which people may speak scornfully of now, I think it does teach one to
philosophy understanding kind
Learning philosophy is learning a particular kind of intuitive understanding.
philosophy intriguing blind
The history of mathematics, lacking the guidance of philosophy, [is] blind, while the philosophy of mathematics, turning its back on the most intriguing phenomena in the history of mathematics, is empty. Imre Lakatos
philosophy blind empty
Philosophy of science without history of science is empty; history of science without philosophy of science is blind.
philosophy greatness college
I thought I might teach philosophy but the atmosphere of a college faculty repelled me; the few islands of greatness seemed to be washed by seas of pettiness and mediocrity. I. F. Stone
philosophy suffering why-not
Why not me? Suffering, she understood, is, in fact, random, universal. Gloria Vanderbilt
philosophy understood gems
The gems of philosophy are not less precious because they are not understood. Giordano Bruno
philosophy night giving
I need not instruct you of my belief: Time gives all and takes all away ; everything changes but nothing perishes ; One only is immutable, eternal and ever endures, one and the same with itself. With this philosophy my spirit grows, my mind expands. Whereof, how r ever obscure the night may be, I await daybreak, and they who dwell in day look for night Rejoice therefore, and keep whole, if you can, and return love for love.
philosophy true-to-yourself
Remain true to yourself and your philosophy. Giorgio Armani
philosophy important clubs
My philosophy is that the club is more important than anyone!
philosophy numbers rainbow
There is no one kind of thing that we 'perceive' but many different kinds, the number being reducible if at all by scientific investigation and not by philosophy: pens are in many ways though not in all ways unlike rainbows, which are in many ways though not in all ways unlike after-images, which in turn are in many ways but not in all ways unlike pictures on the cinema-screen--and so on. J. L. Austin
philosophy expression quality
The beginning of sense, not to say wisdom, is to realize that 'doing an action,' as used in philosophy, is a highly abstract expression--it is a stand-in used in the place of any (or almost any?) verb with a personal subject, in the same sort of way that 'thing' is a stand-in for anynoun substantive, and 'quality' a stand-in for the adjective.