Famous Quotes & Sayings

Maurice Merleau-Ponty

Thinking which displaces, or otherwise defines, the sacred has been called atheistic, and that philosophy which does not place it here or there, like a thing, but at the joining of things and words, will always be exposed to this reproach without ever being touched by it.

Maurice Merleau-Ponty

The philosopher will ask himself ... if the criticism we are now suggesting is not the philosophy which presses to the limit that criticism of false gods which Christianity has introduced into our history.

Marina Warner

I always have done work on mythic relations since I started writing. I really want to be a novelist, or at least a writer of imaginative work... I do try to make my critical studies imaginative and try to write them in ways that are more like literature than philosophy, but I have disappointed myself because I am still so wedded to criticism.

Marilynne Robinson

Oddly enough, my favorite genre is not fiction. I'm attracted by primary sources that are relevant to historical questions of interest to me, by famous old books on philosophy or theology that I want to see with my own eyes, by essays on contemporary science, by the literatures of antiquity.

Maria Montessori

We cannot create observers by saying 'observe,' but by giving them the power and the means for this observation and these means are procured through education of the senses.

Kirk Douglas

You know, you have to have some inner philosophy to deal with adversity.

Kirsten Dunst

I like to think that death gives life meaning. I like that 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.

Karl Marx

Greek philosophy seems to have met with something with which a good tragedy is not supposed to meet, namely, a dull ending.

Karl Marx

In the eyes of dialectical philosophy, nothing is established for all times, nothing is absolute or sacred.

Karl Marx

Nothing can have value without being an object of utility.

Judith Anderson

I am inspired by many mediums and use them to express varied aspects of my philosophies and life observations.

Judd Nelson

I took all the philosophy courses I could

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Is the ground a philosophical concept? Has mind a relationship to the ground? Is it an idea to be investigated? Is the ground put together by thought?

Jiddu Krishnamurti

You must know for yourself, directly, the truth of yourself and you cannot realize it through another, however great. There is no authority that can reveal it.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

I am concerning myself with only one essential thing: to set man free. I desire to free him from all cages, from all fears, and not to found religions, new sects, nor to establish new theories and new philosophies.

Jeremy Piven

I come from a theater family and a theater background, and I come from a philosophy that you respect the space you occupy when you work and you put everything that you have into something.

Jenna Elfman

In other philosophies, my questions would get answered to some degree, but then I would have a follow-up question and there would be no answer. The logic would dead-end. In Scientology you can find answers for anything you could ever think to ask. These are not pushed off on you as, 'This is the answer, you have to believe in it.' In Scientology you discover for yourself what is true for you.

Jenna Fischer

I'm a believer in the parent first, friend second philosophy, and trying to find that balance.

Glenn Close

I've distilled everything to one simple principle: win or die!

Gilbert Ryle

Philosophy is the replacement of category-habits by category-disciplines.

Gilda Radner

... every time I got disappointed I'd remember the Roseannadanna philosophy that says that you shouldn't cry over split milk 'cause if you spill some milk and instead of cleaning it up you just walk over it and start crying, they're gonna put you on lithium.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

I like the Cyclostyle ink; it is so inky. I do not think there is anyone who takes quite such a fierce pleasure in things being themselves as I do. The startling wetness of water excites and intoxicates me: the fieriness of fire, the steeliness of steel, the unutterable muddiness of mud. It is just the same with people.... When we call a man "manly" or a woman "womanly" we touch the deepest philosophy.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

In anything that does cover the whole of your life - in your philosophy and your religion - you must have mirth. If you do not have mirth you will certainly have madness.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

A new philosophy generally means in practice the praise of some old vice.

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.