Philosophy Quotes

Our faith is stronger than death, our philosophy is firmer than flesh, and the spread of the Kingdom of God upon the earth is more sublime and more compelling.

Who you allow into the circle of your life will make the difference in the quality of your life.

To stand on one leg and prove God's existence is a very different thing from going on one's knees and thanking Him.

Sacraments are like hoses. They are the channels of the living water of God's grace. Our faith is like opening the faucet. We can open it a lot, a little, or not at all.

History, at least in its ideal state of perfection, is a compound of poetry and philosophy.

The true function of philosophy is to educate us in the principles of reasoning and not to put an end to further reasoning by the introduction of fixed conclusions.

Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself.

The cause of laughter is simply the sudden perception of the incongruity between a concept and the real project.

Medicine rests upon four pillars - philosophy, astronomy, alchemy, and ethics.

Screwed-up people settle fights through violence. Screwed-up people start wars that could kill millions. Normal people settle fights through cookies, cakes, and pies. Normal people are fat.

There are times when one would like to hang the whole human race, and finish the farce.

My philosophy is never start talking about 'if,' 'and,' 'but' or the past, because 90 percent of what follows will be negative.

We live in the best of all possible worlds

All philosophies are mental fabrications. There has never been a single doctrine by which one could enter the true essence of things.

Philosophy is not one truth, but thousands of truths. You don't have to believe in just one thing. When you chose one idea, you close yourself to the rest.

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

The notion that human life is sacred just because it is human life is medieval.

My whole philosophy is to broadcast the way a fan would broadcast.

My philosophy towards life is to enjoy it to the fullest and have fun. I am one of those 'laugh-out-loud' kinds. I am quirky, yet witty.

Unity is vision; it must have been part of the process of learning to see.

Simplify, simplify, simplify.

Ancient philosophy proposed to mankind an art of living. By contrast, modern philosophy appears above all as the construction of a technical jargon reserved for specialists.

If most of us are ashamed of shabby clothes and shoddy furniture let us be more ashamed of shabby ideas and shoddy philosophies.

How charming is divine philosophy! Not harsh and crabbed, as dull fools suppose, But musical as is Apollo's lute, And a perpetual feast of nectar'd sweets Where no crude surfeit reigns

From out of all the many particulars comes oneness, and out of oneness come all the many particulars.

I rather doubt that life has a meaning. If I thought perhaps it did, and I wanted to find out what its meaning is, I don't imagine I'd ask someone whose credentials consist of a PhD in philosophy.

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

All disturbance and chaos folds up in the teeth of truth. Dont ever try to stop truth. Its the only thing that can go through 16-inch armor plate.

A philosophy can only be a route to knowledge. It cannot be knowledge crammed down one's throat. If one has a route, he can then find what is true for him. And that is Scientology.

Philosophy always buries its undertakers.

All parts of the human body get tired eventually - except the tongue.

You know, you have to have some inner philosophy to deal with adversity.

I Should Just Stop Tweeting, The Human Consciousness Must Raise Before I Speak My Juvenile Philosophy.

The present basic philosophy is nuclear deterrence.

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

A vulgar man, in any ill that happens to him, blames others; a novice in philosophy blames himself; and a philosopher blames neither, the one nor the other.

I should like to abolish funerals; the time to mourn a person is at his birth, not his death.

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

Making miracles is hard work, most people give up before they happen.

Philosophy means nothing unless it is connected to birth, death, and the continuance of life. Anytime you are going to build a society that works, you have to begin from nature and the body.

Poetry and philosophy will become friends.

It's not just philosophy, not just words; it's knowing how the mind functions; only then can you develop loving-kindness; only then can you become a spiritual person.

I'm running out of places I can run, looking for a place in the sun.

My philosophy is, don't take no for an answer and be willing to sacrifice your entire project for freedom.

Superstition sets the whole world in flames, but philosophy douses them.

Good-humor is a philosophic state of mind; it seems to say to Nature that we take her no more seriously than she takes us. I maintain that one should always talk of philosophy with a smile.

I don't master my craft or my style enough to have any philosophy or dogma to which I feel I belong.

There are two conflicting philosophies that I love: "Everything happens for a reason," as well as "you can change everything that you have control over."

My personal philosophy would be don't whine, don't let opportunities pass you by, be willing to work hard, and remember that you don't know as much as you think you do, ever

Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions.