Always put the gun in the other man's hand [on his life philosophy]
Joseph FiennesAn impossible lie is an impossible lie [well this particular piece of philosophy is hard to argue with!]
Bubba WatsonTo ridicule philosophy is really to philosophize
Blaise PascalPhilosophy 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 NewtonPsychiatry's chief contribution to philosophy is the discovery that the toilet is the seat of the soul.
Alexander ChaseYou'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 MaguireAny genuine philosophy leads to action and from action back again to wonder, to the enduring fact of mystery.
Henry MillerI am now convinced that theoretical physics is actually philosophy.
Max BornOne 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 HonderichPhilosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language.
Ludwig WittgensteinPositivism: 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 BierceArt requires philosophy, just as philosophy requires art. Otherwise, what would become of beauty?
Paul GauguinI intend to give my best, to improve things and to create the football team in relation to my image and my football philosophy.
Jose MourinhoArt for art's sake is a philosophy of the well-fed.
Frank Lloyd WrightThere 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 IonescoAll serious conversations gravitate towards philosophy.
Ernest DimnetThe 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 WhiteheadYour philosophy determines whether you will go for the disciplines or continue the errors.
Jim RohnAny lore that widens people's horizons and presents food for thought is the beginning of philosophy
Chief Reuben O OgunyemiBecause 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 AquinasDesign is not for philosophy - it's for life
Issey MiyakeHe could dismiss several schools of philosophy by shifting slightly in his chair or toting his whisky glass. [on Dave Allen]
Dylan MoranI 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 RussellWhen 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 PowellMan is the interpreter of nature, science the right interpretation. (Philosophy of the Inductive Sciences, 1840)
William WhewellBoxing got me started on philosophy. You bash them, they bash you and you think, what's it all for?
Arthur MallardEditing a philosophy dictionary is jolly hard work!
Edward CraigAny philosophy that can be put in a nutshell belongs there.
Sydney HarrisTo become a popular religion, it is only necessary for a superstition to enslave a philosophy. (Idea of Progress)
William Ralph IngeUltimately 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 BlairAnd 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 DonneI have a new philosophy. I'm only going to dread one day at a time.
Charles M Schulz I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.
Benedict SpinozaThe philosophy of one century is the common sense of the next.
Henry Ward Beecher A novel is never anything, but a philosophy put into images.
Jim RohnThe sanctity of human life is the most dangerous sophistry ever propagated by philosophy and it is all too well rooted.
John AspinallPeople who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind.
W B YeatsMy philosophy, like colour television, is all there in black and white.
Monty PythonMy 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 WinfreyHistory is philosophy teaching by example.
DionysiusThe boundary between philosophy and fiction is not as clear cut as you may think and the two definitely interact.
Ken FolletLife 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 MazziniTo believe only possibilities is not faith, but mere philosophy.
Sir Thomas BrowneOnly a philosophy of eternity, in the world today, could justify non-violence.
Albert CamusAstonishment is the root of philosophy.
Paul TillichBe a philosopher but, amid all your philosophy be still a man
David HumeAlways 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 IIThere are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy (Hamlet, Act 1 Scene 5)
William ShakespeareThe 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.
Galbraith
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