Top 1200 Philosophy Quotes & Sayings - Page 7

Philosophy is nothing but discretion.

Philosophy is everybody's business.

I don’t have a philosophy. I have a camera.

O philosophy, you leader of life.

Philosophy! the lumber of the schools.

In my view, there was a long period in which analytical philosophy had little to say about ethics. I think their intellectual tools did not do well with it, and analytical philosophy was above all about revolutionizing the philosophical tool box. It was more or less assumed that the Truth about ethics was some form of utilitarianism (perhaps because some consequentialist calculus looked to them like a respectable tool). Kantian ethics was then interpreted as a particularly odious version of the False - "deontology" - and treated with contempt.

Astonishment is the root of philosophy.

All Philosophy is Biography

My style philosophy is: Be comfortable.

Philosophy is the microscope of thought.

What's my philosophy? In a word, integral.

Philosophy is for the few.

Philosophy bakes no bread

Philosophy is the highest music.

History is a pageant and not a philosophy.

Cooking is a philosophy; it's not a recipe.

Slow are the beginnings of philosophy.

All philosophy is a form of confession.

Never look back' is my philosophy.

This is the personal side of things. When I started going through some of those transitions in my mind, just as a human being versus as an artist, I tried to... Essentially, I did this thing called Landmark Forum. It's three days of mind-expanding, existential philosophy, like Jean-Paul Sartre for everyday living. In existential philosophy they talk about "Being and Nothingness," this idea of not putting meaning onto things, and that in that way you live more purely. In other words, we form reality from these stories that we make up about our lives.

Philosophy has degenerated into ideology.

My philosophy is always to fulfill contracts.

If one believes philosophers, then what we call religion is only a deliberately popularized or an instinctively artless philosophy. Poets seem to consider religion rather as a variation of poetry which by misjudging its proper beautiful game takes itself too seriously and one-sidedly. Philosophy, however, admits and recognizes that it can begin and complete itself only with religion. Poetry seeks only to strive for the infinite and despises worldly utility and culture, which are the true antitheses of religion. Eternal peace among artists is thus not far away.

The sublime can only be found in the great subjects. Poetry, history and philosophy all have the same object, and a very great object-Man and Nature. Philosophy describes and depicts Nature. Poetry paints and embellishes it. It also paints men, it aggrandizes them, it exaggerates them, it creates heroes and gods. History only depicts man, and paints him such as he is.

Many people entertain the idea that Christianity,like almost any other religion,is basically a system of beliefs-you know, a set of doctrines or a code of behavior, a philosophy, an ideology. But that's a myth. Christianity is not at all like Buddhism or Islam or Confucianism. The founders of those religions said (in effect), 'Here is what I teach. Believe my teachings. Follow my philosophy.' Jesus said, 'Follow me'(Matthew 9:9). Leaders of the world's religions said, 'What do you think about what I teach?' Jesus said, 'Who do you say I am?'(Luke 9:20)

Philosophy, for Plato, is a kind of vision, the 'vision of truth'...Everyone who has done any kind of creative work has experienced, in a greater or less degree, the state of mind in which, after long labour, truth or beauty appears, or seems to appear, in a sudden glory - it may only be about some small matter, or it may be about the universe. I think that most of the best creative work, in art, in science, in literature, and in philosophy, has been a result of just such a moment.

Philosophy is really homesickness.

Philosophy is an act of living.

My philosophy is to make money.

'Never look back' is my philosophy.

Philosophy is the art of living.

My judicial philosophy is straightforward.

A body in movement is its philosophy.

Believe it or not, philosophy has consequences.

Design is not for philosophy it's for life.

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

My philosophy on running is, I don't dwell on it, I do it.

Philosophy is the health of the mind.

Isn't that an odd philosophy for a vampire?

The poem of the understanding is philosophy.

Philosophy is to be studied, not for the sake of any definite answers to its questions, since no definite answers can, as a rule, be known to be true, but rather for the sake of the questions themselves; because these questions enlarge our conception of what is possible, enrich our intellectual imagination and diminish the dogmatic assurance which closes the mind against speculation; but above all because, through the greatness of the universe which philosophy contemplates, the mind is also rendered great, and becomes capable of that union with the universe which constitutes its highest good.

I like the concept of teenagers and philosophy.

That's why I love philosophy: no one wins.

The Federalist Society is this conservative legal organization. And I think, for the Bush administration, being a member of the Federalist Society meant you were - a reliable, ideological, partisan Republican. It wasn't enough just to be registered as a Republican, or to be - have a generally conservative judicial philosophy, or prosecutorial philosophy. It meant that, basically, meant that you were a real movement conservative, a Party regular. That's what being a Federalist Society member means.

Like speaks to like only; labor to labor, philosophy to philosophy, criticism to criticism, poetry to poetry. Literature speaks how much still to the past, how little to the future, how much to the East, how little to the West.

My philosophy is that you do what you have to do.

Pessimism is an emotion not a philosophy.

All work is an act of philosophy.

All is well... That's my new philosophy.

An imbecile habit has arisen in modern controversy of saying that such and such a creed can be held in one age but cannot be held in another. Some dogma, we are told, was credible in the twelfth century, but is not credible in the twentieth. You might as well say that a certain philosophy can be believed on Mondays, but cannot be believed on Tuesdays. You might as well say of a view of the cosmos that it was suitable to half-past three, but not suitable to half-past four. What a man can believe depends upon his philosophy, not upon the clock or the century.

Philosophy is the product of wonder.

Science is practical philosophy.

Philosophy is not a theory but an activity.

Leisure can be one of the Mothers of Philosophy.

Philosophy begins with wonder.

Philosophy of science without history of science is empty; history of science without philosophy of science is blind.

My philosophy is to be me.

Philosophy begins in wonder.

Leisure is the Mother of Philosophy.

The best of humanity is philosophy.