Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sarah Palin

If any vegans came over for dinner, I could whip them up a salad, then explain my philosophy on being a carnivore: If God had not intended for us to eat animals, how come He made them out of meat?

Sarah Brightman

Philosophy changes day by day.

Sarah Ban Breathnach

My philosophy is very simple: when in doubt, take a bath.

Willard Van Orman Quine

The three main medieval points of view regarding universals are designated by historians as realism, conceptualism, and nominalism. Essentially these same three doctrines reappear in twentieth-century surveys of the philosophy of mathematics under the new names logicism, intuitionism, and formalism.

Willard Van Orman Quine

My position is a naturalistic one; I see philosophy not as an a priori propaedeutic or groundwork for science, but as continuous with science. I see philosophy and science as in the same boat--a boat which, to revert to Neurath's figure as I so often do, we can rebuild only at sea while staying afloat in it. There is no external vantage point, no first philosophy.

Willard Van Orman Quine

The strategy of semantic ascent is that it carries the discussion into a domain where both parties are better agreed on the objects (viz., words) and on the main terms connecting them. Words, or their inscriptions, unlike points, miles, classes and the rest, are tangible objects of the size so popular in the marketplace, where men of unlike conceptual schemes communicate at their best. The strategy is one of ascending to a common part of two fundamentally disparate conceptual schemes, the better to discuss the disparate foundations. No wonder it helps in philosophy.

Willard Van Orman Quine

It is one of the consolations of philosophy that the benefit of showing how to dispense with a concept does not hinge on dispensing with it.

Willard Van Orman Quine

It is within science itself, and not in some prior philosophy, that reality is to be identified and described.

Wilbur Smith

They do say that socialism is the ideal philosophy-just as long as you have capitalists to pay for it.

Ronald Reagan

I have seen the rise of fascism and communism. Both philosophies glorify the arbitrary power of the state... But both theories fail. Both deny those God-given liberties that are the inalienable right of each person on this planet, indeed, they deny the existence of God.

Saina Nehwal

My philosophy is to not be scared of anyone. If I play well, great; if I dont, I learn from the match and move on.

Tori Amos

These precious things, let them bleed.

Roger Ailes

Capitalism works. In the end, socialism imploded on itself. Communism imploded on itself. Ultimately jihadism will implode on itself, if we stay in the fight and stay on offense because failed philosophies don't work, there's no future.

Robin Williams

The only weapon we have is comedy.

Robin Williams

Crying never helped anybody do anything, okay? You have a problem you face it like a man.

Robin Williams

When you have a great audience, you can just keep going and finding new things.

Robin Williams

All you have to do is think one happy thought, and you'll fly like me.

Robin Williams

There's three things in this world that you need: Respect for all kinds of life, a nice bowel movement on a regular basis, and a navy blazer.

Robin Williams

But if there's love, dear... those are the ties that bind, and you'll have a family in your heart, forever.

Robin Williams

Good people end up in Hell because they can't forgive themselves.

Robin Williams

A human life is just a heartbeat in heaven.

Robin Williams

Please, don't worry so much. Because in the end, none of us have very long on this Earth. Life is fleeting.

Robin Williams

You treat a disease, you win, you lose. You treat a person, I guarantee you, you'll win, no matter what the outcome.

Robin Williams

I'm a very tolerant man, except when it comes to holding a grudge.

Robin Williams

For a while you get mad, then you get over it.

Robert Winston

That Britain today is a liberal society is largely because of the philosophy and outlook of the Anglican Church, which did so much to shape our core values in the past few centuries.

Robert Reich

Globalization and free trade do spur economic growth, and they lead to lower prices on many goods.

Robert Neelly Bellah

That happiness is to be attained through limitless material acquisition is denied by every religion and philosophy known to mankind, but is preached incessantly by every American television set.

Robert Nozick

I think philosophers can do things akin to theoretical scientists, in that, having read about empirical data, they too can think of what hypotheses and theories might account for that data. So there's a continuity between philosophy and science in that way.

Robert Nozick

It is, from another angle, an attack on requiring proof in philosophy. And it's also the case, I guess, that my temperament is to like interesting, new, bold ideas, and to try and generate them.

Richard P. Feynman

What is the fundamental hypothesis of science, the fundamental philosophy? We stated it in the first chapter: the sole test of the validity of any idea is experiment. ... If we are told that the same experiment will always produce the same result, that is all very well, but if when we try it, it does not, then it does not. We just have to take what we see, and then formulate all the rest of our ideas in terms of our actual experience.

Richard P. Feynman

A person talks in such generalities that everyone can understand him and it's considered to be some deep philosophy . However, I would like to be very rather more special and I would like to be understood in an honest way, rather than in a vague way.

Richard P. Feynman

Some people say, "How can you live without knowing?" I do not know what they mean. I always live without knowing. That is easy. How you get to know is what I want to know.