Life 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 MazziniBecause 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 AquinasAnd 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 DonneEnglishmen are babes in philosophy and so prefer faction-fighting to the labor of its unfamiliar thought.
W B YeatsI do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.
Benedict SpinozaPhilosophy will clip an angel's wings.
John KeatsPhilosophy 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 MenckenPositivism: 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 BiercePsychiatry's chief contribution to philosophy is the discovery that the toilet is the seat of the soul.
Alexander ChaseTo believe only possibilities is not faith, but mere philosophy.
Sir Thomas BrowneArt for art's sake is a philosophy of the well-fed.
Frank Lloyd WrightThe 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 AyerOnly a philosophy of eternity, in the world today, could justify non-violence.
Albert CamusPhilosophy is the product of wonder.
Alfred North WhiteheadPhilosophy becomes poetry, and science imagination, in the enthusiasm of genius.
Isaac DisraeliPhilosophy 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 NewtonHistory is philosophy teaching by example.
DionysiusI am now convinced that theoretical physics is actually philosophy.
Max BornHistory is philosophy from examples.
Dionysius Of HalicarnassusYour philosophy determines whether you will go for the disciplines or continue the errors.
Jim RohnHe could dismiss several schools of philosophy by shifting slightly in his chair or toting his whisky glass. [on Dave Allen]
Dylan MoranTruth, like a torch, the more it's shook it shines. (Discussions on Philosophy)
Sir William HamiltonMy philosophy, like colour television, is all there in black and white.
Monty PythonThere are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy (Hamlet, Act 1 Scene 5)
William ShakespeareI have a new philosophy. I'm only going to dread one day at a time.
Charles M Schulz My 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 StraczynskiAll philosophy lies in two words, sustain and abstain.
EpictetusAlways 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 IIEditing a philosophy dictionary is jolly hard work!
Edward CraigAn impossible lie is an impossible lie [well this particular piece of philosophy is hard to argue with!]
Bubba WatsonWhen 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 PowellTo ridicule philosophy is really to philosophize
Blaise PascalAny lore that widens people's horizons and presents food for thought is the beginning of philosophy
Chief Reuben O OgunyemiBe a philosopher but, amid all your philosophy be still a man
David HumeThere 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 IonescoArt requires philosophy, just as philosophy requires art. Otherwise, what would become of beauty?
Paul GauguinMan is the interpreter of nature, science the right interpretation. (Philosophy of the Inductive Sciences, 1840)
William WhewellA fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.
George Bernard ShawThe 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.
GalbraithThe philosophy of one century is the common sense of the next.
Henry Ward Beecher All serious conversations gravitate towards philosophy.
Ernest DimnetMy 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 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 HarrisThe sanctity of human life is the most dangerous sophistry ever propagated by philosophy and it is all too well rooted.
John AspinallAlways put the gun in the other man's hand [on his life philosophy]
Joseph FiennesBoxing got me started on philosophy. You bash them, they bash you and you think, what's it all for?
Arthur MallardA novel is never anything, but a philosophy put into images.
Jim RohnKeep 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 GibranPhilosophy is the replacement of category-habits by category-disciplines.
Gilbert Ryle
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