All philosophy lies in two words, sustain and abstain.
EpictetusI have a new philosophy. I'm only going to dread one day at a time.
Charles M Schulz Any lore that widens people's horizons and presents food for thought is the beginning of philosophy
Chief Reuben O OgunyemiPositivism: 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 BierceWhat has philosophy got to do with measuring anything?
Galileo GalileiTo live each moment to the full, because the moment never comes again [on her life philosophy... deep!]
Shabnam ParyaniWhen 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 PowellUltimately 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 BlairA novel is never anything, but a philosophy put into images.
Jim RohnEnglishmen are babes in philosophy and so prefer faction-fighting to the labor of its unfamiliar thought.
W B YeatsBe a philosopher but, amid all your philosophy be still a man
David HumeYou'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 MaguireI am now convinced that theoretical physics is actually philosophy.
Max BornMy philosophy, like colour television, is all there in black and white.
Monty PythonI do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.
Benedict SpinozaAlways 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 IIThe boundary between philosophy and fiction is not as clear cut as you may think and the two definitely interact.
Ken FolletDesign is not for philosophy - it's for life
Issey MiyakeArt for art's sake is a philosophy of the well-fed.
Frank Lloyd WrightPhilosophy 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 MenckenLife 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 MazziniAn impossible lie is an impossible lie [well this particular piece of philosophy is hard to argue with!]
Bubba WatsonKeep 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 GibranHistory is philosophy teaching by example.
DionysiusAll serious conversations gravitate towards philosophy.
Ernest DimnetTo believe only possibilities is not faith, but mere philosophy.
Sir Thomas BrowneMan is the interpreter of nature, science the right interpretation. (Philosophy of the Inductive Sciences, 1840)
William WhewellAstonishment is the root of philosophy.
Paul TillichAny genuine philosophy leads to action and from action back again to wonder, to the enduring fact of mystery.
Henry MillerYou do what you have to do in life, when you form a philosophy that you can't talk yourself out of.
Constantine KaramanlisPhilosophy is the replacement of category-habits by category-disciplines.
Gilbert RyleMy 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 StraczynskiOnly a philosophy of eternity, in the world today, could justify non-violence.
Albert CamusPhilosophy becomes poetry, and science imagination, in the enthusiasm of genius.
Isaac DisraeliAnd 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 DonneEditing a philosophy dictionary is jolly hard work!
Edward CraigHistory is philosophy from examples.
Dionysius Of HalicarnassusYour philosophy determines whether you will go for the disciplines or continue the errors.
Jim RohnArt 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 WittgensteinAny philosophy that can be put in a nutshell belongs there.
Sydney HarrisThere 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 IonescoI intend to give my best, to improve things and to create the football team in relation to my image and my football philosophy.
Jose MourinhoBecause 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 AquinasMy 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 WinfreyPeople who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind.
W B YeatsThe 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.
GalbraithPhilosophy will clip an angel's wings.
John KeatsOne 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 HonderichTo ridicule philosophy is really to philosophize
Blaise Pascal
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