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Always put the gun in the other man's hand [on his life philosophy]
Joseph Fiennes

An impossible lie is an impossible lie [well this particular piece of philosophy is hard to argue with!]
Bubba Watson

To ridicule philosophy is really to philosophize
Blaise Pascal

Philosophy 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 Newton

Psychiatry's chief contribution to philosophy is the discovery that the toilet is the seat of the soul.
Alexander Chase

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 Maguire

Any genuine philosophy leads to action and from action back again to wonder, to the enduring fact of mystery.
Henry Miller

I am now convinced that theoretical physics is actually philosophy.
Max Born

One 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 Honderich

Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language.
Ludwig Wittgenstein

Positivism: 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 Bierce

Art requires philosophy, just as philosophy requires art. Otherwise, what would become of beauty?
Paul Gauguin

I intend to give my best, to improve things and to create the football team in relation to my image and my football philosophy.
Jose Mourinho

Art for art's sake is a philosophy of the well-fed.
Frank Lloyd Wright

There 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 Ionesco

All serious conversations gravitate towards philosophy.
Ernest Dimnet

The 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 Ayer

Philosophy is the product of wonder.
Alfred North Whitehead

Your philosophy determines whether you will go for the disciplines or continue the errors.
Jim Rohn

Any lore that widens people's horizons and presents food for thought is the beginning of philosophy
Chief Reuben O Ogunyemi

Because 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 Aquinas

Design is not for philosophy - it's for life
Issey Miyake

He could dismiss several schools of philosophy by shifting slightly in his chair or toting his whisky glass. [on Dave Allen]
Dylan Moran

I 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 Russell

When 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 Powell

Man is the interpreter of nature, science the right interpretation. (Philosophy of the Inductive Sciences, 1840)
William Whewell

Boxing got me started on philosophy. You bash them, they bash you and you think, what's it all for?
Arthur Mallard

Editing a philosophy dictionary is jolly hard work!
Edward Craig

Any philosophy that can be put in a nutshell belongs there.
Sydney Harris

To become a popular religion, it is only necessary for a superstition to enslave a philosophy. (Idea of Progress)
William Ralph Inge

Ultimately 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 Blair

And 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 Donne

I 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 Spinoza

The 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 Rohn

The sanctity of human life is the most dangerous sophistry ever propagated by philosophy and it is all too well rooted.
John Aspinall

People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind.
W B Yeats

My philosophy, like colour television, is all there in black and white.
Monty Python

My 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 Winfrey

History is philosophy teaching by example.
Dionysius

The boundary between philosophy and fiction is not as clear cut as you may think and the two definitely interact.
Ken Follet

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 Mazzini

To believe only possibilities is not faith, but mere philosophy.
Sir Thomas Browne

Only a philosophy of eternity, in the world today, could justify non-violence.
Albert Camus

Astonishment is the root of philosophy.
Paul Tillich

Be a philosopher but, amid all your philosophy be still a man
David Hume

Always 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 II

There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy (Hamlet, Act 1 Scene 5)
William Shakespeare

The 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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