Top 1200 Modern Philosophy Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

Coupled with Usury, Unrestricted Competition destroys the small man for the profit of the great and in so doing produces that mass of economically unfree citizens whose very political freedom comes in question because it has no foundation in any economic freedom, that is, any useful proportion of property to support it. Political freedom without economic freedom is almost worthless, and it is because the modern proletariat has the one kind of freedom without the other that its rebellion is now threatening the very structure of the modern world.

Philosophy: Unintelligible answers to insoluble problems.

Skepticism is the first step on the road to philosophy.

I have a social philosophy; you have political opinions; he has an ideology.

All that philosophy can teach is to be stubborn or sullen under misfortunes.

Children, viewed from one angle, are philosophy in motion.

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

There's a difference between a philosophy and a bumper sticker.

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

The only philosophy that I'm not confused about in life is love.

The chief danger to philosophy is narrowness in the selection of evidence.

The first step towards philosophy is incredulity.

History is philosophy teaching by example and also by warning.

Pragmatism is an intellectually safe but ultimately sterile philosophy.

Philosophy is an unusually ingenious attempt to think fallaciously.

Philosophy is really nostalgia, the desire to be at home.

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

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

Extreme liberalism is not a political philosophy. It is a mental disorder.

All good moral philosophy is ... but the handmaid to religion.

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."

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

You have to be as truthful as you possibly can. That's always been my philosophy.

The love of all-inclusiveness is as dangerous in philosophy as in art.

Philosophy is common sense with big words.

My philosophy is to live below your means.

A Call for Revolution, 1993 Libertarianism is rejected by the modern left - which preaches individualism but practices collectivism. Capitalism is rejected by the modern right - which preaches enterprise but practices protectionism. The libertarian faith in the mind of man is rejected by religionists who have faith only in the sins of man. . . . The libertarian insistence that each man is a sovereign land of liberty, with his primary allegiance to himself, is rejected by patriots who sing of freedom but also shout of banners and boundaries.

It is precisely in knowing its limits that philosophy consists.

Philosophy asks the simple question: What is it all about?

Growth purely for its own sake is the philosophy of cancer.

The final arbitrator in philosophy is not how we think but what we do.

Faith and philosophy are air, but events are brass.

I have the general philosophy of creating the future you want to see.

I believe that philosophy is part of literature, and not the reverse.

I'm very passionate about philosophy and religion.

I was a poet animated by philosophy, not a philosopher with poetic faculties.

Originally the structure was . . . a modern narrator who would appear intermittently and talk about his memories of his grandmother, which would then be juxtaposed against scenes from the past. But the stories from the past were always more interesting that the things in the present. I find this almost endemic to modern plays that veer between past and present. . . . So as we've gone on developing GOLDEN CHILD, the scenes from the past have become more dominant, and all that remains of the present are these two little bookends that frame the action.

My philosophy is live life so you won't mind talking about it.

Philosophy starts with doubt and loves only truth.

Truth as such is not a particularly important concept in naturalistic philosophy.

I don't believe in the philosophy of stumbling across hit records.

Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art.

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

No philosopher was ever apathetic. If there is no love, it is not philosophy.

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

'Trill' is a combination of 'true' and 'real.' It's my philosophy.

It is important to understand the philosophy of the city and country.

That my philosophy of life is, as far as possible, one of enjoyment. I'm not nihilistic.

My philosophy is to treat people how you want to be treated.

I see I have made my self a slave to Philosophy.

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

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

Philosophy means the complete liberty of the mind.

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

Cinema for me is an area of philosophy and artistic statement.

My philosophy is that every phone conversation has a loser.

My philosophy is that everything starts with a great product.

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

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

We account the Scriptures of God to be the most sublime philosophy.