Famous Quotes & Sayings

Melina Kanakaredes

You gotta think positive, you know. Make the obstacles opportunities. Thats my philosophy.

Mathew Baynton

I think we all have a similar philosophy about comedy and comic performance which is that it's at its best when you can see the pleasure the performer has, when you can see a glimmer in the eye.

Master P

How does hating get started? It's started by the jealous people, and they get mad over the things you have.

Mason Cooley

The philosophy of hedonism means little to lovers of pleasure. They have no inclination to read philosophy, or to write it.

Mason Cooley

As a comforter, philosophy cannot compete with a good dinner.

Mason Cooley

In philosophy, the principles are more interesting than the examples. In literature, the examples are more interesting than the principles.

Mason Cooley

Against classical philosophy: thinking about eternity or the immensity of the universe does not lessen my unhappiness.

Mason Cooley

When appearance and reality coincide, philosophy and literary criticism find themselves with nothing to say.

Michio Kaku

Reality has always proved to be much more sophisticated and subtle than any preconceived philosophy.

Michel Onfray

For the establishment, philosophy is both an elitist and an idealist discipline: In high school, it is a compulsory subject; at university, they teach the idealist line. They are conducting a conversation with themselves.

Michel Onfray

I discovered philosophy in my youth when I read wildly, and thus I was exposed to the world of ideas.

Michel Gondry

You need philosophy. It sounds a little pompous but I think when you direct a film, the only way to find a response to the questions you keep asking yourself is to have a philosophy.

Michel Foucault

Confession frees, but power reduces one to silence; truth does not belong to the order of power, but shares an origincal affinity with freedom: traditional themes in philosophy, which a political history of truth would have to overturn by showing that truth is not by nature free--nor error servile--but that its production is thoroughly imbued with relations of power. The confession is an example of this.

Michel Foucault

There are moments in life where the question of knowing whether one might think otherwise than one thinks and perceive otherwise than one sees is indispensable if one is to continue to observe or reflect ... What is philosophy today ... if it does not consist in, instead of legitimizing what we already know, undertaking to know how and how far it might be possible to think otherwise?

Mark Prior

The way I pitch is the way I pitch. I'm not going to change my overall philosophy. I'll just go out and pitch.

Masanobu Fukuoka

I wonder how it is that people's philosophies have come to spin faster than the changing seasons.

Mary Wortley Montagu

Philosophy is the toil which can never tire persons engaged in it. All ways are strewn with roses, and the farther you go, the more enchanting objects appear before you and invite you on.

Martha Graham

America does not concern itself now with Impressionism. We own no involved philosophy. The psyche of the land is to be found in its movement. It is to be felt as a dramatic force of energy and vitality. We move; we do not stand still. We have not yet arrived at the stock-taking stage.

Martha Beck

I majored in Chinese. I was never really good at Chinese but I really, really benefited from having been exposed to Asian philosophy early in my life.

Maria Schell

I have come finally to a simple philosophy of work. I enjoy what I do and do the best I can. That is enough.

Marguerite Young

Some of the poetic writers who insert passages of realism in their texts have no underlying philosophy to uphold them, and revert to realism.

Paul Samuelson

Politicians like to tell people what they want to hear - and what they want to hear is what won't happen.

Paul Ryan

Every now and then, President Obama sorta drops his veil. He's less coy about his philosophy, he sort of reveals his true governing philosophy, what he really believes.

Paul Henderson

My philosophy is I take today, live it the best way I can and if I wake up I'll take another shot at tomorrow.

Paul Guilfoyle

Strive to be authentic all the time. That's sort of my philosophy on life, which applies to acting.

Paul Harvey

My own interest in Yoga came from a vague understanding of Indian thought and Indian philosophy in the late sixties and early seventies and from looking at the idea of meditation and at what meditation was.

Paul Hawken

The promise of business is to increase the general well-being of humankind through service, a creative invention and ethical philosophy.

Pat Boone

In fact - statistically, as you know - people have done polls, research, and at least 80 percent or more or working media are liberal Democrats if they are involved with any party and certainly liberal in their philosophy.

Pam Gems

I begin to perceive that I am a woman. What that is, heaven knows... the philosophy is yet to be written, there is a world to be explored.

Jurgen Habermas

Science can only be comprehended epistemologically , which means as one category of possible knowledge , as long as knowledge is not equated either effusively with the absolute knowledge of a great philosophy or blindly with scientistic self-understanding of the actual business of research.

Jurgen Habermas

Philosophy's position with regard to science, which at one time could be designated with the name "theory of knowledge," has been undermined by the movement of philosophical thought itself. Philosophy was dislodged from this position by philosophy.

Karl Marx

Philosophy studies the world, but the point is to change it.

Karl Marx

The theory of Communism may be summed up in one sentence: Abolish all private property.