Philosophy Quotes

Philosophy and Art both render the invisible visible by imagination.

I don't attach importance to great speeches or philosophy.

Philosophy is an attempt by man to find cause and effect. Religion has the same goal.

If you've got unemployment, low pay, that was just too bad. But that was the system. That was the sort of economy and philosophy against which I was fighting in the 1930s.

Philosophy can only be approached with the most concrete comprehension.

The vote by the Judiciary Committee reflects the fact that John Roberts is an exceptional nominee with a conservative judicial philosophy - a philosophy that represents mainstream America.

Philosophy: Impersonal anxiety; refuge among anemic ideas.

But human experience is usually paradoxical, that means incongruous with the phrases of current talk or even current philosophy.

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

The philosophy of one century is the common sense of the next.

Bruce Lee was very famous. I watched his movies and he is amazing. He is a martial arts master, his philosophy, his movement, both physically and mentally, were very strong.

If philosophy is practice, a demand to know the manner in which its history is to be studied is entailed: a theoretical attitude toward it becomes real only in the living appropriation of its contents from the texts.

Before Vatican II, in theology, as in other areas, the discipline was fixed. After the council there has been a revolution - a chaotic revolution - with free discussion on everything. There is now no common theology or philosophy as there was before.

Democracy may have arisen in the West as the way of striving for the universal aspiration to dignity and freedom, but it isn't alien to the underlying concepts that infuse religion and moral philosophy everywhere.

I really believe in the philosophy that you create your own universe. I'm just trying to create a good one for myself.

Felicity, the companion of content, is rather found in our own breasts than in the enjoyment of external things; and I firmly believe it requires but a little philosophy to make a man happy in whatever state he is.

Philosophy, most broadly viewed, is the critical survey of existence from the standpoint of value.

The history of philosophy is not, like the history of the sciences, to be studied with the intellect alone. That which is receptive in us and that which impinges upon us from history is the reality of man's being, unfolding itself in thought.

Design is not for philosophy it's for life.

Evolution is a bankrupt speculative philosophy, not a scientific fact. Only a spiritually bankrupt society could ever believe it. Only atheists could accept this Satanic theory.

You're seeing me develop, not only as a filmmaker if you've seen my earlier films, but you're seeing me kind of learn how to be a human, how my philosophy has evolved.

Men are not allowed to think freely about chemistry and biology: why should they be allowed to think freely about political philosophy?

I took all the philosophy courses I could.

So that's my philosophy: If you believe in yourself, the chances and the opportunities will come around.

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.

As a universal history of philosophy, the history of philosophy must become one great unity.

There will be no end to the troubles of states, or of humanity itself, till philosophers become kings in this world, or till those we now call kings and rulers really and truly become philosophers, and political power and philosophy thus come into the same hands.

Jacques Derrida is a very important thinker and philosopher who has made serious contributions to both philosophy and literary criticism. Roland Barthes is the one I feel most affinity for, and Michel Foucault, well, his writing influenced my novel, 'Middlesex.'

Philosophy goes no further than probabilities, and in every assertion keeps a doubt in reserve.

Science may eventually explain the world of How. The ultimate world of Why may remain for contemplation, philosophy, religion.