When people come together, go to each other's country, and watch a conflict being played out on the field of sport, as opposed to the field of battle... then why can't that same spirit, that same philosophy, infect other aspects of relations? [Hoping India and Pakistan would develop their relationship off the pitch]
Colin PowellAnd new Philosophy calls all in doubt, the element of fire is quite put out; the Sun is lost, and the earth, and no mans wit can well direct him where to look for it.
John DonneThe philosophy of one century is the common sense of the next.
Henry Ward Beecher Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children.
Kahlil GibranPhilosophy becomes poetry, and science imagination, in the enthusiasm of genius.
Isaac DisraeliTruth, like a torch, the more it's shook it shines. (Discussions on Philosophy)
Sir William HamiltonTo believe only possibilities is not faith, but mere philosophy.
Sir Thomas BrowneThe boundary between philosophy and fiction is not as clear cut as you may think and the two definitely interact.
Ken FolletPhilosophy is the product of wonder.
Alfred North WhiteheadAll serious conversations gravitate towards philosophy.
Ernest DimnetYou'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.
Tobey MaguireTo become a popular religion, it is only necessary for a superstition to enslave a philosophy. (Idea of Progress)
William Ralph IngeDesign is not for philosophy - it's for life
Issey MiyakeHistory is philosophy from examples.
Dionysius Of HalicarnassusThere are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy (Hamlet, Act 1 Scene 5)
William ShakespeareBecause philosophy arises from awe, a philosopher is bound in his way to be a lover of myths and poetic fables. Poets and philosophers are alike in being big with wonder.
Sir Thomas AquinasI do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.
Benedict SpinozaPositivism: A philosophy that denies our knowledge of the Real and affirms our ignorance of the Apparent. Its longest exponent is Comte, its broadest Mill and its thickest Spencer.
Ambrose BierceEnglishmen are babes in philosophy and so prefer faction-fighting to the labor of its unfamiliar thought.
W B YeatsAny lore that widens people's horizons and presents food for thought is the beginning of philosophy
Chief Reuben O OgunyemiA fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.
George Bernard ShawI intend to give my best, to improve things and to create the football team in relation to my image and my football philosophy.
Jose MourinhoThe sanctity of human life is the most dangerous sophistry ever propagated by philosophy and it is all too well rooted.
John AspinallThe propositions of philosophy are not factual, but linguistic in character - that is, they do not describe the behaviour of physical, or even mental, objects; they express definitions, or the formal consequences of definitions. [Ayer was a logical positivist]
A J AyerPhilosophy is the replacement of category-habits by category-disciplines.
Gilbert RyleBe a philosopher but, amid all your philosophy be still a man
David HumeMan is the interpreter of nature, science the right interpretation. (Philosophy of the Inductive Sciences, 1840)
William WhewellTo live each moment to the full, because the moment never comes again [on her life philosophy... deep!]
Shabnam ParyaniThe 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.
GalbraithMy philosophy of life is that if we make up our mind what we are going to make of our lives, then work hard toward that goal, we never lose - somehow we win out.
Ronald ReaganThe proper method of philosophy consists in clearly conceiving the insoluble problems in all their insolubility and then in simply contemplating them, fixedly and tirelessly, year after year, without any hope, patiently waiting.
Simone WeilI have a new philosophy. I'm only going to dread one day at a time.
Charles M Schulz 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)
Sir Isaac NewtonAny philosophy that can be put in a nutshell belongs there.
Sydney HarrisAlways presume that the enemy has dangerous designs and always be forehanded with the remedy. But do not let these calculations make you timid. [Philosophy of life for a monarch]
Frederick IIAn impossible lie is an impossible lie [well this particular piece of philosophy is hard to argue with!]
Bubba WatsonThere is no religion in which everyday life is not considered a prison; there is no philosophy or ideology that does not think that we live in alienation.
Eugene IonescoArt for art's sake is a philosophy of the well-fed.
Frank Lloyd WrightPeople who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind.
W B YeatsI 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.
Bertrand RussellMy philosophy, like colour television, is all there in black and white.
Monty PythonAstonishment is the root of philosophy.
Paul TillichBoxing got me started on philosophy. You bash them, they bash you and you think, what's it all for?
Arthur MallardPsychiatry's chief contribution to philosophy is the discovery that the toilet is the seat of the soul.
Alexander ChaseYour philosophy determines whether you will go for the disciplines or continue the errors.
Jim RohnEditing a philosophy dictionary is jolly hard work!
Edward CraigWhat has philosophy got to do with measuring anything?
Galileo GalileiMy 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.
Oprah WinfreyPhilosophy will clip an angel's wings.
John KeatsArt requires philosophy, just as philosophy requires art. Otherwise, what would become of beauty?
Paul Gauguin
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