Quotations
Quotes:
One thinks of French philosophy that it aspires to the condition of literature or the condition of art, and that English and American philosophy aspires to the condition of science. French philosophy, one thinks of as picking up an idea and running with it, posibility into a nearby brick wall or over a local cliff, or something like that.
View quotes by Ted Honderich
Art requires philosophy, just as philosophy requires art. Otherwise, what would become of beauty?
View quotes by Paul Gauguin
My philosophy: find what it is you want to say, walk in the room, say it, and get the hell out. (Second philosophy behind that one: when in doubt, roll in a grenade and come in firing.)
View quotes by J Michael Straczynski
Truth, like a torch, the more it's shook it shines. (Discussions on Philosophy)
View quotes by Sir William Hamilton
To become a popular religion, it is only necessary for a superstition to enslave a philosophy. (Idea of Progress)
View quotes by William Ralph Inge
Philosophy is such an impertinently litigious lady that a man has as good be engaged in law suits as have to do with her (letter to Edmund Halley)
View quotes by Sir Isaac Newton
There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy (Hamlet, Act 1 Scene 5)
View quotes by William Shakespeare
My philosophy, like colour television, is all there in black and white.
View quotes by Monty Python
Philosophy is the replacement of category-habits by category-disciplines.
View quotes by Gilbert Ryle
Any lore that widens people's horizons and presents food for thought is the beginning of philosophy
View quotes by Chief Reuben O Ogunyemi
History is philosophy from examples.
View quotes by Dionysius Of Halicarnassus
You're asking me to give insight into my personality or my philosophy of acting. I just don't think that deeply about it. What it means when I do this or that - I don't know. That's coming outside of myself. I prefer to live my life from inside of me, rather than come outside.
View quotes by Tobey Maguire
Design is not for philosophy - it's for life
View quotes by Issey Miyake
Man is the interpreter of nature, science the right interpretation. (Philosophy of the Inductive Sciences, 1840)
View quotes by William Whewell
Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language.
View quotes by Ludwig Wittgenstein
I think we ought always to entertain our opinions with some measure of doubt. I shouldn't wish people dogmatically to believe any philosophy, not even mine.
View quotes by Bertrand Russell
My philosophy is that not only are you responsible for your life, but doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.
View quotes by Oprah Winfrey
Philosophy consists very largely of one philosopher arguing that all others are jackasses. He usually proves it, and I should add that he also usually proves that he is one himself.
View quotes by Henry L Mencken
I have a new philosophy. I'm only going to dread one day at a time.
View quotes by Charles M Schulz
The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.
View quotes by Galbraith
