Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rudolf Carnap

Logic is the last scientific ingredient of Philosophy; its extraction leaves behind only a confusion of non-scientific, pseudo problems.

Rosie O'Donnell

When I started out, some women comics were jealous of other women comics, thinking, "If she gets "The Tonight Show," I can't." My philosophy always was, "If she did, I can too."

Roger McGuinn

How many years will you crawl through this castle, so satisfied and still wanting more?

Roger Bacon

But concerning vision alone is a separate science formed among philosophers, namely, optics, and not concerning any other sense ... It is possible that some other science may be more useful, but no other science has so much sweetness and beauty of utility. Therefore it is the flower of the whole of philosophy and through it, and not without it, can the other sciences be known.

Roger Bacon

Few have attained to consummate wisdom in the perfection of philosophy: Solomon attained to it, and Aristotle in relation to his times, and in a later age Avicenna , and in our own days the recently deceased Robert, Bishop of Lincoln, and Adam Marsh.

Roger Tory Peterson

The philosophy that I have worked under most of my life is that the serious study of natural history is an activity which has far-reaching effects in every aspect of a person's life. It ultimately makes people protective of the environment in a very committed way. It is my opinion that the study of natural history should be the primary avenue for creating environmentalists.

Rupert Sheldrake

Contemporary science is based on the philosophy of materialism, which claims that all reality is material or physical.

Rush Limbaugh

What often happens with these Islamist regimes, there are differing philosophies in terms of how fast to go in getting to where everybody wants to end up, which is Sharia. That is the ultimate objective for all of these places. But they have different strategies on the speed with which they're going to get there, and the strategies involve foreign policy.

Rush Limbaugh

I love being a conservative. We conservatives are proud of our philosophy. Unlike our liberal friends, who are constantly looking for new words to conceal their true beliefs and are in a perpetual state of reinvention, we conservatives are unapologetic about our ideals.

Thomas Malthus

It is an acknowledged truth in philosophy that a just theory will always be confirmed by experiment.

Thomas Malthus

It accords with the most liberal spirit of philosophy to suppose that not a stone can fall, or a plant rise, without the immediate agency of divine power.

Thomas Malthus

If I saw a glass of wine repeatedly presented to a man, and he took no notice of it, I should be apt to think that he was blind or uncivil. A juster philosophy might teach me rather to think that my eyes deceived me, and that the offer was not really what I conceived it to be.

Thomas Malthus

The first business of philosophy is to account for things as they are; and till our theories will do this, they ought not to be the ground of any practical conclusion.

Ray Davies

I close my eyes and feel the universe within me.

Ray Davies

Live life, see it through. Carry on, it's all you can do.

Ray Davies

Standing in the middle of nowhere, wondering how to begin. Lost between tomorrow and yesterday, between now and then.

Ray Davies

Surviving, that's my plan.

Ray Davies

Taken everything I've got, all I've got's this sunny afternoon.

Ray Davies

To the field we are scattered from the day we are born to grow wild and sleep rough til from the earth we are torn.

Ray Davies

A restless spirit who can't reach his goal, can't find a home until I've found my soul.

Ray Davies

It's never too late to get a new design, and if you wanna compete you gotta visualize.

Ray Davies

Goods gone bad, but right is wrong, and I don't know which side I'm on lately.

Ray Davies

Before you condemn me my friends, I suggest you look deep inside you. For good and evil exists in us all.

Ray Davies

Compared to the bugs and the spiders and flies, I am an apeman.

Ray Davies

Why bear malice? Just let it go. So what of pride? It will swallow you whole.

Ray Davies

What are we living for? Two roomed apartment on the second floor?

Ray Davies

On the surface I'm a mild mannered person, that's until you scratch the animal inside.

Ray Davies

You look like a human being, but you don't have a mind of your own.

Raoul Vaneigem

There are more truths in twenty-four hours of a man's life than in all the philosophies.

Randy Travis

There's a darkness that everyone must face, it wants to take what's good and fair and lay it all to waste. And that darkness covers everything in sight, until it meets a single point of light.

Randy Travis

There's a constant contradiction between what feels good and what feels right. But you live with decisions that you make in your life.

Thomas Jefferson

I am myself an empiric in natural philosophy, suffering my faith to go no further than my facts. I am pleased, however, to see the efforts of hypothetical speculation, because by the collisions of different hypotheses, truth may be elicited and science advanced in the end.

Thomas Jefferson

The sun of her [Great Britain] glory is fast descending to the horizon. Her philosophy has crossed the Channel, her freedom the Atlantic, and herself seems passing to that awful dissolution, whose issue is not given human foresight to scan.