Top 1200 Life Philosophy Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

Mathematics is less related to accounting than it is to philosophy.

What is philosophy? It is something that lightens up, that makes bright.

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

As long as there are chances, we have to fight to the end. That's Madrid's philosophy.

You know what I think?" she says. "That people's memories are maybe the fuel they burn to stay alive. Whether those memories have any actual importance or not, it doesn't matter as far as the maintenance of life is concerned. They're all just fuel. Advertising fillers in the newspaper, philosophy books, dirty pictures in a magazine, a bundle of ten-thousand-yen bills: when you feed 'em to the fire, they're all just paper.

To take philosophy seriously is to engage with it philosophically.

History is philosophy teaching by example and also by warning.

There is no philosophy that is not to some extent also theology.

Philosophy likes to keen common sense on the run.

We live in a world in which politics has replaced philosophy.

My philosophy has always been to stand with all countries and all humanity.

My philosophy when I trained was to be 1% better every day.

Modi is marching forward on the basis of the BJP's philosophy.

My philosophy is this: Do not tamper with the anatomy of a woman's body; do not camouflage it.

We need a philosophy for humans and nature to live together.

The point is, that the function of the novel seems to be changing; it has become an outpost of journalism; we read novels for information about areas of life we don't know - Nigeria, South Africa, the American army, a coal-mining village, coteries in Chelsea, etc. We read to find out what is going on. One novel in five hundred or a thousand has the quality a novel should have to make it a novel - the quality of philosophy.

My philosophy is very simple: when in doubt, take a bath.

If I had a philosophy, it's that I support the beautiful side of anarchy.

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.

With every failure, every crisis, every difficult time, I say - What is this here to teach me? And as soon as you get the lesson, you get to move on. If you really get the lesson, you pass and you don't have to repeat the class. My philosophy is that not only are you responsible for your life, but doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.

In my political philosophy I think that there sometimes is room for violence.

Philosophy does not exist. It is nothing but an hypostatized abstraction.

My philosophy is I'm raising future adults, not children.

My philosophy was if they weren't calling you names, you weren't doing anything.

Any philosophy that can be put in a nutshell belongs there.

The grandeur of a philosophy does not certify its truth.

I got an A in philosophy because I proved my professor didn't exist.

Chairman Mao creatively applied Marxism-Leninism to every aspect of the Chinese revolution, and he had creative views on philosophy, political science, military science, literature and art, and so on. Unfortunately, in the evening of his life, particularly during the "Cultural Revolution", he made mistakes - and they were not minor ones - which brought many misfortunes upon our Party, our state and our people.

The Savage interrupted him. "But isn't it natural to feel there's a God?" "You might as well ask if it's natural to do up one's trousers with zippers," said the Controller sarcastically. "You remind me of another of those old fellows called Bradley. He defined philosophy as the finding of bad reason for what one believes by instinct. As if one believed anything by instinct! One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them. Finding bad reasons for what one believes for other bad reasons – that's philosophy. People believe in God because they've been conditioned to."

I think the Greeks invented sports as an antidote to philosophy.

We are afraid of the known and afraid of the unknown. That is our daily life and in that there is no hope, and therefore every form of philosophy, every form of theological concept, is merely an escape from the actual reality of what is. All outward forms of change brought about by wars, revolutions, reformations, laws and ideologies have failed completely to change the basic nature of man and therefore of society.

My whole philosophy is about playing dress-up.

The beginning of philosophy is the recognition of the conflict between opinions.

Philosophy is the sum total of all that you know and what you decide is valuable.

The trouble was that he was talking in philosophy but they were listening in gibberish.

Plato's philosophy is a dignified preface to future religion.

Everything we do is art, philosophy, mysticism, cultural commentary.

Existentialism is the kind of philosophy that makes for legendary children.

Philosophy is "an unusually stubborn attempt to think clearly.

If I had followed the multitude, I should not have studied philosophy.

But then of course a philosophy is not the same thing as a style.

Philosophy cannot be taught; it is the application of the sciences to truth.

My philosophy, like color television, is all there in black and white.

Philosophy begins when you don't know where to look for an answer.

Induction is the glory of science and the scandal of philosophy.

Indeed heresies are themselves instigated by philosophy.

Things bring their own philosophy with them, that is, prudence.

Income is primarily determined by your philosophy, not by the economy

Maybe it's my libertarian philosophy: but being in government is hard.

For thirty years I have leaned toward the theory of Reincarnation. It seems a most reasonable philosophy and explains many things. No, I have no desire to know what, or who I was once; or what, or who, I shall be in the ages to come. This belief in immortality makes present living the more attractive. It gives you all the time there is. You will always be able to finish what you start. There is no fever or strain in such an outlook. We are here in life for one purpose: to get experience. We are all getting it, and we shall all use it somewhere.

In the western philosophy you can't perceive infinities at every moment. It's not there to do.

There's no one way to dance. And that's kind of my philosophy about everything.

We are not called to proclaim philosophy and metaphysics, but the simple gospel.

To study philosophy is nothing but to prepare one’s self to die.

The gems of philosophy are not less precious because they are not understood.

The object of philosophy is the logical clarification of thought.

My design philosophy has always been eclectic.

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

It is a proof of philosophical mediocrity, today, to look for a philosophy.

I thought I would go into philosophy and political science.