The philosophy of one century is the common sense of the next.
Henry Ward Beecher I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.
Benedict SpinozaHistory is philosophy from examples.
Dionysius Of HalicarnassusAny 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 ShawThe 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 WeilTo live each moment to the full, because the moment never comes again [on her life philosophy... deep!]
Shabnam ParyaniTruth, like a torch, the more it's shook it shines. (Discussions on Philosophy)
Sir William HamiltonThe boundary between philosophy and fiction is not as clear cut as you may think and the two definitely interact.
Ken FolletAlways 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 IIAny philosophy that can be put in a nutshell belongs there.
Sydney HarrisPhilosophy 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.
Henry L MenckenTo ridicule philosophy is really to philosophize
Blaise PascalMy 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 ReaganA novel is never anything, but a philosophy put into images.
Jim RohnThe 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.
GalbraithArt requires philosophy, just as philosophy requires art. Otherwise, what would become of beauty?
Paul GauguinPhilosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language.
Ludwig WittgensteinTo believe only possibilities is not faith, but mere philosophy.
Sir Thomas BrowneThe 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 AyerMy philosophy, like colour television, is all there in black and white.
Monty PythonOne 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.
Ted HonderichUltimately it was stifling because it sought to embrace in its philosophy every facet of existence [on Marxism]. That, of course, is its attraction to many
Tony BlairOnly a philosophy of eternity, in the world today, could justify non-violence.
Albert CamusThe sanctity of human life is the most dangerous sophistry ever propagated by philosophy and it is all too well rooted.
John AspinallWhen 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 PowellThere are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy (Hamlet, Act 1 Scene 5)
William ShakespearePhilosophy is the replacement of category-habits by category-disciplines.
Gilbert RyleDesign is not for philosophy - it's for life
Issey MiyakeEnglishmen are babes in philosophy and so prefer faction-fighting to the labor of its unfamiliar thought.
W B YeatsPsychiatry's chief contribution to philosophy is the discovery that the toilet is the seat of the soul.
Alexander ChaseI intend to give my best, to improve things and to create the football team in relation to my image and my football philosophy.
Jose MourinhoPositivism: 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 BierceHistory is philosophy teaching by example.
DionysiusBe a philosopher but, amid all your philosophy be still a man
David HumePhilosophy is the product of wonder.
Alfred North WhiteheadAny genuine philosophy leads to action and from action back again to wonder, to the enduring fact of mystery.
Henry MillerI 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 RussellArt for art's sake is a philosophy of the well-fed.
Frank Lloyd WrightMy 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 WinfreyYour philosophy determines whether you will go for the disciplines or continue the errors.
Jim RohnBecause 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 AquinasPhilosophy becomes poetry, and science imagination, in the enthusiasm of genius.
Isaac DisraeliPeople who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind.
W B YeatsTrue philosophy invents nothing; it merely establishes and describes what is.
Victor CousinLife is a mission. Every other definition of life is false, and leads all who accept it astray. Religion, science, philosophy, though still at variance upon many points, all agree in this, that every existence is an aim.
Giuseppe MazziniAll philosophy lies in two words, sustain and abstain.
EpictetusMan is the interpreter of nature, science the right interpretation. (Philosophy of the Inductive Sciences, 1840)
William WhewellI have a new philosophy. I'm only going to dread one day at a time.
Charles M Schulz Editing a philosophy dictionary is jolly hard work!
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