Philosophy Quotes

Darwinism as presented by Darwin contradicted idealistic philosophy, and this contradiction grew deeper with the development of its materialist teaching.

It seems essential to try to find some meaning to life and I guess Jungian philosophy is the one that's helped me understand myself and the world more than anything else.

My fashion philosophy is that if I like it, I wear it.

I just want to be healthy and happy. I don't want to hurt anybody or make them mad. If that's a philosophy then that's my philosophy.

Philosophy is the product of wonder.

The Copernican revolution brought about by Kant was, I think, the most important single turning point in the history of philosophy.

One has only as much morality as one has philosophy and poetry.

I have no philosophy, my favourite thing is sitting in the studio.

My philosophy is to be me.

It should now be clear why the method of Philosophy is so different from that of the natural sciences. Experiments are not made, because they would be utterly useless.

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.

I am an Epicurean. I consider the genuine (not the imputed) doctrines of Epicurus as containing everything rational in moral philosophy which Greek and Roman leave to us.

My basic philosophy is that no human being is a saint.

The history of philosophy is to a great extent that of a certain clash of human temperaments.

But if it not be true, the myth itself requires to be explained, and every principle of philosophy and common sense demand that the explanation be sought, not in arbitrary allegorical categories, but in the actual facts of ritual or religious custom to which the myth attaches.

Ruby inherited the Perl philosophy of having more than one way to do the same thing. I inherited that philosophy from Larry Wall, who is my hero actually. I want to make Ruby users free. I want to give them the freedom to choose.

Truth is the object of philosophy, but not always of philosophers.

We have to make philosophy itself an object of philosophical concern.

Only a philosophy of eternity, in the world today, could justify non-violence.

Religion deals in certainties and philosophy deals more in un-answered questions.

Actually, I didn't make the claim that Ruby follows the principle of least surprise. Someone felt the design of Ruby follows that philosophy, so they started saying that. I didn't bring that up, actually.

Logic is the last scientific ingredient of Philosophy; its extraction leaves behind only a confusion of non-scientific, pseudo problems.

You do what you have to do in life, when you form a philosophy that you can't talk yourself out of.

It is an acknowledged truth in philosophy that a just theory will always be confirmed by experiment.

In philosophy if you aren't moving at a snail's pace you aren't moving at all.

If we had this back, and in full measure; if society were infused by it, through and through, and men lived its life, and in its life, philosophy would take care of itself and the nature of our institutions would not matter.

Literature and philosophy both allow past idols to be resurrected with a frequency which would be truly distressing to a sober scientist.

My writing, like everything I do, comes profoundly from my heart. I believe that if you follow your heart you will be successful in one way or another. Old-fashioned as that might sound, the philosophy is true.

Thanks to the high standing which science has for so long attain and to the impartiality of the Nobel Prize Committee, the Nobel Prize for Physics is rightly considered everywhere as the highest reward within the reach of workers in Natural Philosophy.

The pursuit of perfection always implies a definite aristocracy, which is as much a goal of effort as a noble philosophy, an august civil polity or a great art.