You do what you have to do in life, when you form a philosophy that you can't talk yourself out of.
Constantine KaramanlisAny genuine philosophy leads to action and from action back again to wonder, to the enduring fact of mystery.
Henry MillerYou'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 MaguireI do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.
Benedict SpinozaPhilosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language.
Ludwig WittgensteinI intend to give my best, to improve things and to create the football team in relation to my image and my football philosophy.
Jose MourinhoMy 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 StraczynskiArt requires philosophy, just as philosophy requires art. Otherwise, what would become of beauty?
Paul GauguinAll serious conversations gravitate towards philosophy.
Ernest DimnetBe a philosopher but, amid all your philosophy be still a man
David HumeThe 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 replacement of category-habits by category-disciplines.
Gilbert RyleOne 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 HonderichAlways 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 IIThe sanctity of human life is the most dangerous sophistry ever propagated by philosophy and it is all too well rooted.
John AspinallPositivism: 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 BierceMy philosophy, like colour television, is all there in black and white.
Monty PythonHistory is philosophy from examples.
Dionysius Of HalicarnassusI am now convinced that theoretical physics is actually philosophy.
Max BornA novel is never anything, but a philosophy put into images.
Jim RohnTo live each moment to the full, because the moment never comes again [on her life philosophy... deep!]
Shabnam ParyaniThe 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.
GalbraithLife 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 MazziniTruth, like a torch, the more it's shook it shines. (Discussions on Philosophy)
Sir William HamiltonAll philosophy lies in two words, sustain and abstain.
EpictetusAnd 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 DonneAny philosophy that can be put in a nutshell belongs there.
Sydney HarrisPhilosophy will clip an angel's wings.
John KeatsTo believe only possibilities is not faith, but mere philosophy.
Sir Thomas BrowneYour philosophy determines whether you will go for the disciplines or continue the errors.
Jim RohnThe philosophy of one century is the common sense of the next.
Henry Ward Beecher Any lore that widens people's horizons and presents food for thought is the beginning of philosophy
Chief Reuben O OgunyemiPhilosophy 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 MenckenAstonishment is the root of philosophy.
Paul TillichAlways 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 MallardThere 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 IonescoWhen 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 PowellI have a new philosophy. I'm only going to dread one day at a time.
Charles M Schulz Philosophy is the product of wonder.
Alfred North WhiteheadThe 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 WeilThere are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy (Hamlet, Act 1 Scene 5)
William ShakespeareTrue philosophy invents nothing; it merely establishes and describes what is.
Victor CousinPhilosophy 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 NewtonMy 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 WinfreyKeep 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 GibranEditing a philosophy dictionary is jolly hard work!
Edward CraigEnglishmen are babes in philosophy and so prefer faction-fighting to the labor of its unfamiliar thought.
W B YeatsUltimately 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 BlairThe boundary between philosophy and fiction is not as clear cut as you may think and the two definitely interact.
Ken Follet
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