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 WeilTo live each moment to the full, because the moment never comes again [on her life philosophy... deep!]
Shabnam ParyaniThe boundary between philosophy and fiction is not as clear cut as you may think and the two definitely interact.
Ken FolletThe 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 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 MenckenPhilosophy is the product of wonder.
Alfred North WhiteheadMan is the interpreter of nature, science the right interpretation. (Philosophy of the Inductive Sciences, 1840)
William WhewellPeople who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind.
W B YeatsPositivism: 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 BierceAll philosophy lies in two words, sustain and abstain.
EpictetusUltimately 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 BlairPhilosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language.
Ludwig WittgensteinOne 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 HonderichBe a philosopher but, amid all your philosophy be still a man
David HumeMy 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 ReaganI intend to give my best, to improve things and to create the football team in relation to my image and my football philosophy.
Jose MourinhoAny philosophy that can be put in a nutshell belongs there.
Sydney HarrisThe 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.
GalbraithTrue philosophy invents nothing; it merely establishes and describes what is.
Victor CousinYour philosophy determines whether you will go for the disciplines or continue the errors.
Jim RohnEnglishmen are babes in philosophy and so prefer faction-fighting to the labor of its unfamiliar thought.
W B YeatsPhilosophy becomes poetry, and science imagination, in the enthusiasm of genius.
Isaac DisraeliBoxing got me started on philosophy. You bash them, they bash you and you think, what's it all for?
Arthur MallardI 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 RussellLife 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 MazziniHistory is philosophy teaching by example.
DionysiusYou do what you have to do in life, when you form a philosophy that you can't talk yourself out of.
Constantine KaramanlisWhat has philosophy got to do with measuring anything?
Galileo GalileiPhilosophy will clip an angel's wings.
John KeatsYou'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 MaguireMy 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 WinfreyAll serious conversations gravitate towards philosophy.
Ernest DimnetTo ridicule philosophy is really to philosophize
Blaise PascalAstonishment is the root of philosophy.
Paul TillichDesign is not for philosophy - it's for life
Issey MiyakeAnd 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 DonneTo believe only possibilities is not faith, but mere philosophy.
Sir Thomas BrownePhilosophy 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 NewtonWhen 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 PowellHistory is philosophy from examples.
Dionysius Of HalicarnassusBecause 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 AquinasKeep 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 GibranAlways 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 III do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.
Benedict SpinozaArt for art's sake is a philosophy of the well-fed.
Frank Lloyd WrightAlways put the gun in the other man's hand [on his life philosophy]
Joseph FiennesOnly a philosophy of eternity, in the world today, could justify non-violence.
Albert CamusMy philosophy, like colour television, is all there in black and white.
Monty PythonArt requires philosophy, just as philosophy requires art. Otherwise, what would become of beauty?
Paul GauguinMy 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.)
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