Philosophy Quotes

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.

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

No one's policing their own minds more than an author. You spend a lot of time in your own head analysing what you think about things, and a philosophy comes.

To become a popular religion, it is only necessary for a superstition to enslave a philosophy.

We should remember that there was once a discipline called natural philosophy. Unfortunately, this discipline seems not to exist today. It has been renamed science, but science of today is in danger of losing much of the natural philosophy aspect.

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.

When science, art, literature, and philosophy are simply the manifestation of personality they are on a level where glorious and dazzling achievements are possible, which can make a man's name live for thousands of years.

My philosophy? Simplicity plus variety.

Contradiction was something I really like when it is embraced in that kind of philosophy.

To sum up the whole, we should say that the aim of the Platonic philosophy was to exalt man into a god.

If I were to adopt pure mechanism as a philosophy, there would be no way I could choose to be a scholar.

Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy.

Philosophy, like medicine, has plenty of drugs, few good remedies, and hardly any specific cures.

It is, then, by those shadows of the hoary Past and their fantastic silhouettes on the external screen of every religion and philosophy, that we can, by checking them as we go along, and comparing them, trace out finally the body that produced them.

Human knowledge is dark and uncertain; philosophy is dark, astrology is dark, and geometry is dark.

My dad had this philosophy that if you tell children they're beautiful and wonderful then they believe it, and they will be. So I never thought I was unattractive. But I was never one of the girls at school who had lots of boyfriends.

It is the liberal philosophy, not the conservative one, that views humans as selfish automatons.

Truth in philosophy means that concept and external reality correspond.

I had a liberal arts education at Amherst College where I had two majors, mathematics and philosophy.

There are metaphysical problems, problems of human existence, that philosophy has never known how to grasp in all their concreteness and that only the novel can seize.

Without philosophy, history is always for me dead and dumb.

There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy.

I think if Tottenham are going to be top four side, the fans and the club will need to get away from the philosophy of 'pretty football', that's got to go.

Philosophy is nothing but discretion.

Aphorisms are the true form of the universal philosophy.

Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children.

The basic drive behind real philosophy is curiosity about the world, not interest in the writings of philosophers.

Science without respect for human life is degrading to us all and reflects a hollow and deceptive philosophy, a philosophy that we as a people should never condone.

But the need for conflict to expose prejudice and unclear reasoning, which is deeply embedded in my philosophy of science, has its origin in these debates.

It is, from another angle, an attack on requiring proof in philosophy. And it's also the case, I guess, that my temperament is to like interesting, new, bold ideas, and to try and generate them.