Top 1200 Modern Philosophy Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

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

Be a philosopher but, amid all your philosophy be still a man.

I've always said fantasy is sort of 'stealth philosophy'.

Yoga began as a philosophy rather than as a physical discipline.

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

A novel is never anything, but a philosophy put into images.

Whence? wither? why? how? - these questions cover all philosophy.

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

My pitching philosophy is simple - keep the ball way from the bat.

True philosophy invents nothing; it merely establishes and describes what is.

You always really have to remain consistent in your beliefs and philosophy.

Original philosophy is always "deviant" or even subversive.

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

My relationship with Barack Obama isn't based on my political philosophy or his.

Philosophy: A route of many roads leading from nowhere to nothing.

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

The more one is absorbed in so-called philosophy, the greater one's delusion and blindness.

I think that [there is] this fundamental right to privacy and the philosophy that government shouldn't be intrusive.

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

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

Passions destroy more prejudices than philosophy does.

Wonder is the foundation of all philosophy, inquiry the progress, ignorance the end.

Identify the dominant philosophy of a society and you can predict its future.

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

Philosophy is as far separated from impiety as religion is from fanaticism.

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

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

Even if I am but a pretender to wisdom, that in itself is philosophy.

The philosophy of my life is the harder I worked, the luckier I got.

My philosophy of life can be summed up in four words: It can't be helped.

My whole philosophy is about playing dress-up.

Roast beef, medium, is not only a food. It is a philosophy.

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

Wars between states and people seem to have existed under all historical systems for as long as we have some recorded evidence. War is quite clearly not a phenomenon particular to the modern world-system. On the other hand, once again the technological achievements of capitalist civilization serve as much ill as good. One bomb in Hiroshima killed more people than whole wars in pre-modern times. Alexander the Great in his whole sweep of the Middle East could not compare in destructiveness to the impact of the Gulf War on Iraq and Kuwait.

Commentators frequently blame MMORPGs for an increasing sense of isolation modern life. But virtual worlds are less a cause of that isolation than a response to it. Virtual worlds give back what has been scooped out of modern life. The virtual world is in important ways more authentically human than the real world. It gives us back community, a feeling of competence, and a sense of being an important person whom people depend on.

My philosophy? Have a laugh for as long as you can and don't get run over. Or stabbed.

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

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.

Loss avoidance must be the cornerstone of your investment philosophy.

Philosophy's power to blunt all the blows of circumstance is beyond belief.

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

Ethical and questions of philosophy interest me a great deal.

Evolution is a bankrupt speculative philosophy, not a scientific fact.

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

In the presence of death, no philosophy of life can feel triumphant!

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.

Philosophy becomes poetry, and science imagination, in the enthusiasm of genius.

Philosophy... is the creative perception by the spirit of the meaning of human existence.

Philosophy likes to keen common sense on the run.

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

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

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

If they weren't so dangerous and destructive, one could smile and pat the Modern Liberal on the head and tell him how cute he is and go on about the business of being an adult. But he is dangerous and destructive, with the True Believer's very purpose being the total destruction of everything that God and science-most obviously Western Civilization-has ever created. ...The Modern Liberal will invariably and, in fact, inevitably side with evil over good, wrong over right and the behaviors that lead to failure over those that lead to success.

My philosophy is 'learn while you live.' 'LazyTown' is about balance. I'm not there yet.

I think my philosophy in music has been to accentuate the positive.

How charming is divine philosophy! Not harsh and crabb

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

I just swung for the fence. That's my whole philosophy in life.

Philosophy is a performance sport - you have to play it with somebody back and forth.