Top 1200 Life Philosophy Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

In philosophy, it is not the attainment of the goal that matters, it is the things that are met with by the way

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

There is nothing in philosophy which could not be said in everyday language.

Passions destroy more prejudices than philosophy does.

Why is it that all men who are outstanding in philosophy, poetry or the arts are melancholic?

Each individual is a cosmos of organs, each organ is a cosmos of cells, each cell is a cosmos of infinitely small ones; and in this complex world, the well-being of the whole depends entirely on the sum of well-being enjoyed by each of the least microscopic particles of organized matter. A whole revolution is thus produced in the philosophy of life.

I suppose philosophy is historically not a woman's game, though that is changing.

I am an example of a person who got zeroed into a philosophy early.

It's the Platonic philosophy in The Republic that philosophers should lead the country.

In philosophy, it is not the attainment of the goal that matters, it is the things that are met with by the way.

My design philosophy is to make women feel like peacocks.

My reading of philosophy and history is desultory; I know so much and yet so little.

Reason in my philosophy is only a harmony among irrational impulses.

Loss avoidance must be the cornerstone of your investment philosophy.

knowledge of our duties is the most useful part of philosophy.

My philosophy is, unless you're sick and need help, why bother?

I went to Princeton from Amherst, where I split my interests between mathematics and philosophy.

We're all in this together is a far better philosophy than you're on your own.

A philosophy is important so that everyone is on the same page and there's a consistency of message.

I have a new philosophy. I'm only going to dread one day at a time.

Proverbs may not improperly be called the philosophy of the common people.

My mind was formed by studying philosophy, Plato and that sort of thing.

There is no heresy or no philosophy which is so abhorrent to the church as a human being.

From cradle to grave this problem of running order through chaos, direction through space, discipline through freedom, unity through multiplicity, has always been, and must always be, the task of education, as it is the moral of religion, philosophy, science, art, politics and economy; but a boy's will is his life, and he dies when it is broken, as the colt dies in harness, taking a new nature in becoming tame.

Plato's Symposium shows that flirtation and philosophy can further one another.

Basically, I realized I was living in that awful stage of life between twenty-six to and thirty-seven known as stupidity. It's when you don't know anything, not even as much as you did when you were younger, and you don't even have a philosophy about all the things you don't know, the way you did when you were twenty or would again when you were thirty-eight.

In the Art, Science, Philosophy and Mystic rests the temple of Wisdom.

Philosophy teaches us to bear with equanimity the misfortunes of others.

Atheism is a disease of the mind caused by eating underdone philosophy

Philosophy is the only excuse God has for his cruelty and vanity.

We come late, if at all, to wine and philosophy: whiskey and action are easier.

Philosophy of science is about as useful to scientists as ornithology is to birds.

The bosom-weight, your stubborn gift, That no philosophy can lift.

The ideas within this philosophy are certainly not exclusive to any writer.

The philosophy that I've embraced isn't about sitting under a tree and studying my navel.

Go is to Western chess what philosophy is to double-entry accounting.

My philosophy has always been, 'do what you love and the money will follow.'

Ethical and questions of philosophy interest me a great deal.

For Guardiola, the system and tactics can change but not the approach, attitude, or philosophy.

Marriage is a team effort. Both of us share that philosophy.

Fine art is in the last consequence, philosophy expressed visually.

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

Philosophy can't build bridges, but can encourage people to cross them.

The process of writing can be a powerful tool for self-discovery. Writing demands self-knowledge; it forces the writer to become a student of human nature, to pay attention to his experience, to understand the nature of experience itself. By delving into raw experience and distilling it into a work of art, the writer is engaging in the heart and soul of philosophy - making sense out of life.

The outer ring of Christianity is a rigid guard of ethical abnegations and professional priests; but inside that inhuman guard you will find the old human life dancing like children and drinking wine like men; for Christianity is the only frame for pagan freedom. But in the modern philosophy the case is opposite; it is its outer ring that is obviously artistic and emancipated; its despair is within.

But shall gravity be therefore called an occult cause, and thrown out of philosophy, because the cause of gravity is occult and not yet discovered? Those who affirm this, should be careful not to fall into an absurdity that may overturn the foundations of all philosophy. For causes usually proceed in a continued chain from those that are more compounded to those that are more simple; when we are arrived at the most simple cause we can go no farther ... These most simple causes will you then call occult and reject them? Then you must reject those that immediately depend on them.

The advantages of philosophy? That I am able to hold converse with myself.

You know, I've taught philosophy for years and one argues in the hypothetical all the time.

Science never makes an advance until philosophy authorizes it to do so.

I'm boring as hell. I just sit around and talk philosophy.

I really wanted to maintain that bedroom philosophy to creating stuff.

I take happiness very seriously. It is a creed, a philosophy and an objective.

I have a very strict philosophy that if you're not working out, you're getting fat.

In Russia there is no philosophy, but philosophize everything, even the small fry.

Materialism is the philosophy of the subject who forgets to take account of himself.

There are moments in life where the question of knowing whether one might think otherwise than one thinks and perceive otherwise than one sees is indispensable if one is to continue to observe or reflect... What is philosophy today... if it does not consist in, instead of legitimizing what we already know, undertaking to know how and how far it might be possible to think otherwise?

Philosophy is tested and characterised by the way in which it appropriates its history.

Go away, you give philosophy nothing to catch hold of.

Proverbs embody the current and practical philosophy of an age or nation.

Philosophy seems to me on the whole a rather hopeless business.