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 RussellAny lore that widens people's horizons and presents food for thought is the beginning of philosophy
Chief Reuben O OgunyemiPhilosophy 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 live each moment to the full, because the moment never comes again [on her life philosophy... deep!]
Shabnam ParyaniAny 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 IIUltimately 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 BlairTruth, like a torch, the more it's shook it shines. (Discussions on Philosophy)
Sir William HamiltonAnd 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 DonneYour philosophy determines whether you will go for the disciplines or continue the errors.
Jim RohnPositivism: 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 BierceWhen 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 PowellMy 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 WinfreyThe philosophy of one century is the common sense of the next.
Henry Ward Beecher Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language.
Ludwig WittgensteinHistory is philosophy from examples.
Dionysius Of HalicarnassusI intend to give my best, to improve things and to create the football team in relation to my image and my football philosophy.
Jose MourinhoYou'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 MaguireAlways put the gun in the other man's hand [on his life philosophy]
Joseph FiennesThe 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 WeilBe a philosopher but, amid all your philosophy be still a man
David HumeOnly a philosophy of eternity, in the world today, could justify non-violence.
Albert CamusTrue philosophy invents nothing; it merely establishes and describes what is.
Victor CousinHe could dismiss several schools of philosophy by shifting slightly in his chair or toting his whisky glass. [on Dave Allen]
Dylan MoranBecause 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 AquinasTo become a popular religion, it is only necessary for a superstition to enslave a philosophy. (Idea of Progress)
William Ralph IngeMy 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.)
J Michael StraczynskiMan is the interpreter of nature, science the right interpretation. (Philosophy of the Inductive Sciences, 1840)
William WhewellMy philosophy, like colour television, is all there in black and white.
Monty PythonYou do what you have to do in life, when you form a philosophy that you can't talk yourself out of.
Constantine KaramanlisAll philosophy lies in two words, sustain and abstain.
EpictetusBoxing got me started on philosophy. You bash them, they bash you and you think, what's it all for?
Arthur MallardThere are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy (Hamlet, Act 1 Scene 5)
William ShakespearePeople who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind.
W B YeatsThe 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 product of wonder.
Alfred North WhiteheadOne 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 HonderichThe 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.
GalbraithTo ridicule philosophy is really to philosophize
Blaise PascalThe boundary between philosophy and fiction is not as clear cut as you may think and the two definitely interact.
Ken FolletI am now convinced that theoretical physics is actually philosophy.
Max BornAstonishment is the root of philosophy.
Paul TillichThe sanctity of human life is the most dangerous sophistry ever propagated by philosophy and it is all too well rooted.
John AspinallMy 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 ReaganTo believe only possibilities is not faith, but mere philosophy.
Sir Thomas BrowneWhat has philosophy got to do with measuring anything?
Galileo GalileiAny genuine philosophy leads to action and from action back again to wonder, to the enduring fact of mystery.
Henry MillerAn impossible lie is an impossible lie [well this particular piece of philosophy is hard to argue with!]
Bubba WatsonArt requires philosophy, just as philosophy requires art. Otherwise, what would become of beauty?
Paul GauguinDesign is not for philosophy - it's for life
Issey Miyake
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