Philosophy Quotes

My pitching philosophy is simple - keep the ball way from the bat.

Conversation may be compared to a lyre with seven chords - philosophy, art, poetry, love, scandal, and the weather.

We've been doing this here since 1968, so we have been identified as an example of a free, democratic school, and many professors want to expose their students to our philosophy.

We ought to have more people who believe in constitutionally limited government. We have to have more people come to Congress with that mindset. I think we can make this a better place, if, when elections happen, we support candidates who share that philosophy.

The questions of philosophy proper are human desires and fears and aspirations - human emotions - taking an intellectual form.

Fathers like to have children good-natured, well-behaved, and comfortable, but how to put them in that desirable condition is out of their philosophy.

What is your aim in philosophy? To show the fly the way out of the fly-bottle.

Individual psychotherapy - that is, engaging a distressed fellow human in a disciplined conversation and human relationship - requires that the therapist have the proper temperament and philosophy of life for such work. By that I mean that the therapist must be patient, modest, and a perceptive listener, rather than a talker and advice-giver.

That's a central part of philosophy, of ethics. What do I owe to strangers? What do I owe to my family? What is it to live a good life? Those are questions which we face as individuals.

And so my militant philosophy is this: to make with a brush on canvas is a simple direct delight-to make with the movie is the same.

Philosophy would render us entirely Pyrrhonian, were not nature too strong for it.

I am at war... with the principal personage of traditional philosophy, that abstract subject who masquerades as everyone and anyone, but is really a male subject in disguise.

Let philosophy resolutely aim to be as scientific as possible, but let her not forget her strong kinship with literature.

When he was twenty-three or twenty-four my father began to learn German and read philosophy in his spare hours, which did not look as though he were destined to remain long on board ship!

We have the tools, but we have to learn how to use them. That is my political philosophy.

I mean, we are tribal by nature, and sometimes success and material wealth can divide and separate - it's not a new philosophy I'm sharing - more than hardship, hardship tends to unify.

As a system of philosophy it is not like the Tower of Babel, so daring its high aim as to seek a shelter against God's anger; but it is like a pyramid poised on its apex.

Philosophy: A route of many roads leading from nowhere to nothing.

The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.

I very rarely read any fiction. I love biographies; I read about all kinds of people. I love theology and some philosophy.

What sort of philosophy one chooses depends on what sort of person one is.

When Keats says: 'Axioms in philosophy are not axioms until they are proved upon our pulses', what he means is that we don't necessarily believe what a poem is saying if it comes out and tells us in an absolutely head-on, in-your-face way; we only believe it to be true if we feel it to be true.

Hard distinctions make bad philosophy.

Before I joined the project most of the English people with whom I had made personal contacts were left wing and affected to some degree or other by the same kind of philosophy.

One's philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes... and the choices we make are ultimately our responsibility.

I find purer philosophy in a Poem than in a Conclusion of Geometry, a chemical analysis, or a physical law.

From cell phones to computers, quality is improving and costs are shrinking as companies fight to offer the public the best product at the best price. But this philosophy is sadly missing from our health-care insurance system.

One may summon his philosophy when they are beaten in battle, not till then.

Religion is doing; a man does not merely think his religion or feel it, he lives his religion as much as he is able, otherwise it is not religion but fantasy or philosophy.

Academe, n.: An ancient school where morality and philosophy were taught. Academy, n.: A modern school where football is taught.