Philosophy Quotes

My philosophy is, unless you're sick and need help, why bother?

Philosophy begins in wonder. And, at the end, when philosophic thought has done its best, the wonder remains.

I have a simple philosophy: Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. Scratch where it itches.

I went to Princeton from Amherst, where I split my interests between mathematics and philosophy.

Buddhism has become a socially recognized religious philosophy for Americans, whereas it used to be considered an exotic religion.

Philosophy: Unintelligible answers to insoluble problems.

A creative element is surely present in all great systems, and it does not seem possible that all sympathy or fundamental attitudes of will can be entirely eliminated from any human philosophy.

Everyone should have a philosophy for living better.

The philosophy behind much advertising is based on the old observation that every man is really two men - the man he is and the man he wants to be.

You need philosophy. It sounds a little pompous but I think when you direct a film, the only way to find a response to the questions you keep asking yourself is to have a philosophy.

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

Nothing seems to me more doubtful than Aristotle's remark that it is probable the arts and philosophy have several times been discovered and several times lost.

Philosophy is the highest music.

The service of philosophy, of speculative culture, towards the human spirit, is to rouse, to startle it to a life of constant and eager observation.

Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.

We are tainted by modern philosophy which has taught us that all is good, whereas evil has polluted everything and in a very real sense all is evil, since nothing is in its proper place.

Hope founded upon a human being, a man-made philosophy or any institution is always misplaced... because these things are unreliable and fleeting.

My philosophy about the game, for instance, is that you have players out there who really do different things.

My personal philosophy of life is one of ethics.

After the first exams, I switched to the Faculty of Philosophy and studied Zoology in Munich and Vienna.

I don't believe in quotas. America was founded on a philosophy of individual rights, not group rights.

The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.

St. Paul would say to the philosophers that God created man so that he would seek the Divine, try to attain the Divine. That is why all pre-Christian philosophy is theological at its summit.

Hey, you want to hear my philosophy of life? Do it to him before he does it to you.

It is a great advantage for a system of philosophy to be substantially true.

As a newly married person, as much as I would love for my husband to buy into the 'my way or the highway' philosophy, you realize it's all about compromising and finding some sort of middle ground that everyone can live with.

All philosophy lies in two words, sustain and abstain.

This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.

Part of what is wrong with the view of American imperialism is that it is antithetical to our interests. We are better off when people are governing themselves. I'm sure there is some guy that will tell you that philosophy is no different from the Roman Empire's. Well, it is fundamentally different.

By philosophy the mind of man comes to itself, and from henceforth rests on itself without foreign aid, and is completely master of itself, as the dancer of his feet, or the boxer of his hands.