The sanctity of human life is the most dangerous sophistry ever propagated by philosophy and it is all too well rooted.
John AspinallUltimately 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 BlairAny philosophy that can be put in a nutshell belongs there.
Sydney HarrisPsychiatry's chief contribution to philosophy is the discovery that the toilet is the seat of the soul.
Alexander ChaseEnglishmen are babes in philosophy and so prefer faction-fighting to the labor of its unfamiliar thought.
W B YeatsAny genuine philosophy leads to action and from action back again to wonder, to the enduring fact of mystery.
Henry MillerAstonishment is the root of philosophy.
Paul TillichThere 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 IonescoTo live each moment to the full, because the moment never comes again [on her life philosophy... deep!]
Shabnam ParyaniA fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.
George Bernard ShawPhilosophy is the replacement of category-habits by category-disciplines.
Gilbert RyleThe 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 WeilYour philosophy determines whether you will go for the disciplines or continue the errors.
Jim RohnMy 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 StraczynskiPhilosophy 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 NewtonBecause 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 AquinasEditing a philosophy dictionary is jolly hard work!
Edward CraigTo ridicule philosophy is really to philosophize
Blaise PascalMy philosophy, like colour television, is all there in black and white.
Monty PythonTo become a popular religion, it is only necessary for a superstition to enslave a philosophy. (Idea of Progress)
William Ralph IngeWhen 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 PowellAny lore that widens people's horizons and presents food for thought is the beginning of philosophy
Chief Reuben O OgunyemiAlways 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 WhewellArt for art's sake is a philosophy of the well-fed.
Frank Lloyd WrightWhat has philosophy got to do with measuring anything?
Galileo GalileiPhilosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language.
Ludwig WittgensteinHistory is philosophy teaching by example.
DionysiusThere 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 do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.
Benedict SpinozaThe 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 AyerYou do what you have to do in life, when you form a philosophy that you can't talk yourself out of.
Constantine KaramanlisHe could dismiss several schools of philosophy by shifting slightly in his chair or toting his whisky glass. [on Dave Allen]
Dylan MoranLife 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 MazziniAll 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 IIYou'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 MaguireAll serious conversations gravitate towards philosophy.
Ernest DimnetMy 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 WinfreyOne 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 HonderichA novel is never anything, but a philosophy put into images.
Jim RohnPhilosophy becomes poetry, and science imagination, in the enthusiasm of genius.
Isaac DisraeliMy 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 am now convinced that theoretical physics is actually philosophy.
Max BornPositivism: 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 BierceThe philosophy of one century is the common sense of the next.
Henry Ward Beecher Philosophy 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 MenckenTrue philosophy invents nothing; it merely establishes and describes what is.
Victor CousinDesign is not for philosophy - it's for life
Issey Miyake
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