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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 Powell

And 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 Donne

The 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 Gibran

Philosophy becomes poetry, and science imagination, in the enthusiasm of genius.
Isaac Disraeli

Truth, like a torch, the more it's shook it shines. (Discussions on Philosophy)
Sir William Hamilton

To believe only possibilities is not faith, but mere philosophy.
Sir Thomas Browne

The boundary between philosophy and fiction is not as clear cut as you may think and the two definitely interact.
Ken Follet

Philosophy is the product of wonder.
Alfred North Whitehead

All serious conversations gravitate towards philosophy.
Ernest Dimnet

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.
Tobey Maguire

To become a popular religion, it is only necessary for a superstition to enslave a philosophy. (Idea of Progress)
William Ralph Inge

Design is not for philosophy - it's for life
Issey Miyake

History is philosophy from examples.
Dionysius Of Halicarnassus

There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy (Hamlet, Act 1 Scene 5)
William Shakespeare

Because 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 Aquinas

I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.
Benedict Spinoza

Positivism: 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 Bierce

Englishmen are babes in philosophy and so prefer faction-fighting to the labor of its unfamiliar thought.
W B Yeats

Any lore that widens people's horizons and presents food for thought is the beginning of philosophy
Chief Reuben O Ogunyemi

A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.
George Bernard Shaw

I intend to give my best, to improve things and to create the football team in relation to my image and my football philosophy.
Jose Mourinho

The sanctity of human life is the most dangerous sophistry ever propagated by philosophy and it is all too well rooted.
John Aspinall

The 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 Ayer

Philosophy is the replacement of category-habits by category-disciplines.
Gilbert Ryle

Be a philosopher but, amid all your philosophy be still a man
David Hume

Man is the interpreter of nature, science the right interpretation. (Philosophy of the Inductive Sciences, 1840)
William Whewell

To live each moment to the full, because the moment never comes again [on her life philosophy... deep!]
Shabnam Paryani

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.
Galbraith

My 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 Reagan

The 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 Weil

I 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 Newton

Any philosophy that can be put in a nutshell belongs there.
Sydney Harris

Always 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 II

An impossible lie is an impossible lie [well this particular piece of philosophy is hard to argue with!]
Bubba Watson

There 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 Ionesco

Art for art's sake is a philosophy of the well-fed.
Frank Lloyd Wright

People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind.
W B Yeats

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.
Bertrand Russell

My philosophy, like colour television, is all there in black and white.
Monty Python

Astonishment is the root of philosophy.
Paul Tillich

Boxing got me started on philosophy. You bash them, they bash you and you think, what's it all for?
Arthur Mallard

Psychiatry's chief contribution to philosophy is the discovery that the toilet is the seat of the soul.
Alexander Chase

Your philosophy determines whether you will go for the disciplines or continue the errors.
Jim Rohn

Editing a philosophy dictionary is jolly hard work!
Edward Craig

What has philosophy got to do with measuring anything?
Galileo Galilei

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.
Oprah Winfrey

Philosophy will clip an angel's wings.
John Keats

Art requires philosophy, just as philosophy requires art. Otherwise, what would become of beauty?
Paul Gauguin



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