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 ReaganPeople who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind.
W B YeatsTo live each moment to the full, because the moment never comes again [on her life philosophy... deep!]
Shabnam ParyaniAny lore that widens people's horizons and presents food for thought is the beginning of philosophy
Chief Reuben O OgunyemiBoxing got me started on philosophy. You bash them, they bash you and you think, what's it all for?
Arthur MallardI have a new philosophy. I'm only going to dread one day at a time.
Charles M Schulz All philosophy lies in two words, sustain and abstain.
EpictetusAlways put the gun in the other man's hand [on his life philosophy]
Joseph FiennesMan 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 PythonDesign is not for philosophy - it's for life
Issey MiyakeEditing a philosophy dictionary is jolly hard work!
Edward CraigYour philosophy determines whether you will go for the disciplines or continue the errors.
Jim RohnMy 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 WinfreyI 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 RussellA fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.
George Bernard ShawAll serious conversations gravitate towards philosophy.
Ernest DimnetThe philosophy of one century is the common sense of the next.
Henry Ward Beecher 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 MaguireA novel is never anything, but a philosophy put into images.
Jim RohnAny 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 IonescoPhilosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language.
Ludwig WittgensteinBe a philosopher but, amid all your philosophy be still a man
David HumeHe could dismiss several schools of philosophy by shifting slightly in his chair or toting his whisky glass. [on Dave Allen]
Dylan MoranPhilosophy is the product of wonder.
Alfred North WhiteheadThere are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy (Hamlet, Act 1 Scene 5)
William ShakespeareTruth, like a torch, the more it's shook it shines. (Discussions on Philosophy)
Sir William HamiltonI am now convinced that theoretical physics is actually philosophy.
Max BornThe 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.
GalbraithHistory is philosophy from examples.
Dionysius Of HalicarnassusThe boundary between philosophy and fiction is not as clear cut as you may think and the two definitely interact.
Ken FolletAn impossible lie is an impossible lie [well this particular piece of philosophy is hard to argue with!]
Bubba WatsonHistory is philosophy teaching by example.
DionysiusPhilosophy 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 MazziniArt for art's sake is a philosophy of the well-fed.
Frank Lloyd WrightTo 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 StraczynskiAlways 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 IIPhilosophy 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 NewtonI do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.
Benedict SpinozaI intend to give my best, to improve things and to create the football team in relation to my image and my football philosophy.
Jose MourinhoThe 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 WeilYou do what you have to do in life, when you form a philosophy that you can't talk yourself out of.
Constantine KaramanlisPhilosophy becomes poetry, and science imagination, in the enthusiasm of genius.
Isaac DisraeliTo ridicule philosophy is really to philosophize
Blaise PascalEnglishmen are babes in philosophy and so prefer faction-fighting to the labor of its unfamiliar thought.
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 will clip an angel's wings.
John Keats
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