Philosophy Quotes

Tantra is for the advanced spiritual practitioner who is ready to push aside spiritual practice in the name of spiritual practice.

I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain.

Money talks, but it don't sing and dance, and it don't walk. And long as I can have you here with me, I'd much rather be, forever in blue jeans.

The problem of social organization is how to set up an arrangement under which greed will do the least harm, capitalism is that kind of a system.

I never went to a John Wayne movie to find a philosophy to live by or to absorb a profound message. I went for the simple pleasure of spending a couple of hours seeing the bad guys lose.

Happiness is a side effect of doing something that has nothing to do with it.

I believe strongly that philosophy has nothing to do with specialists.

he who thinks great thoughts often makes great errors

My philosophy has always been to help women and men feel comfortable and confident through the clothes they wear.

No philosophy, my son; it is of no use to an emperor.

My basic philosophy can be summed up by an expression we use in Norwegian: hurry slowly. Get there, but be patient.

Philosophy consists very largely of one philosopher arguing that all others are jackasses. He usually proves it, and I should add that he also usually proves that he is one himself.

Nothing we use or hear or touch can be expressed in words that equal what is given by the senses.

The world I believe is far too serious, and being far too serious ... it has need of a wise and merry philosophy.

You eat, in dreams, the custard of the day.

To learn is not to know; there are the learners and the learned. Memory makes the one, philosophy the others.

(The Tao) is always present and always available. . . . If you are willing to be lived by it, you will see it everywhere, even in the most ordinary things.

History abhors determinism but cannot tolerate chance.

If you know how to spend less than you get, you have the philosopher's stone.

Turn away from your animal kind, try to leave your body, just to live in your mind.

The vote by the Judiciary Committee reflects the fact that John Roberts is an exceptional nominee with a conservative judicial philosophy - a philosophy that represents mainstream America.

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

Imagining something is better than remembering something.

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

I pulled the burden from off my back and tossed it into the wind. And stretched my arms toward the sky and let my life begin.

In solitude we have our dreams to ourselves, and in company we agree to dream in concert.

All the big problems of the world today are routed in the philosophy of separateness and dualism.

This sense of wonder is the mark of the philosopher. Philosophy indeed has no other origin.

No philosophy based on an incorrect view of the nature of man is likely to produce social good.

Indeed heresies are themselves instigated by philosophy

There are no dead-end jobs. There are no dead-end jobs. There are only dead-end people. Our current social philosophy, and the welfare state apparatus based on it, are creating more dead-end people.

I learned much more about acting from philosophy courses, psychology courses, history and anthropology than I ever learned in acting class.

The party that called itself liberal aimed at respecting the liberty to dispose of one's own goods

Religion is the eldest sister of philosophy: on whatever subjects they may differ, it is unbecoming in either to quarrel, and most so about their inheritance.

Compared to what we ought to be, we are half awake.

The seed of suffering in you may be strong, but don't wait until you have no more suffering before allowing yourself to be happy.

Reason is the power or capacity whereby we see or detect logical relationships among propositions.

Compassion crowns the soul with its truest victory.

Certainty a strange Ferris wheel of a statement!

Philosophy, as we use the word, is a fight against the fascination which forms of expression exert upon us.

The danger today is in believing there are no sick people, there is only a sick society.

Poverty is a virtue which one can teach oneself.

Do not ruin today with mourning tomorrow.

Every passion borders on the chaotic, but the collector's passion borders on the chaos of memories.

I consider it an extremely dangerous doctrine, because the more likely we are to assume that the solution comes from the outside, the less likely we are to solve our problems ourselves.

Recollection is the only paradise from which we cannot be turned out.

People think that to love is simple, but that to find the right object to love - or to be loved by - is difficult.

I will go on shining, shining like brand new. I'll never look behind me, my troubles will be few.

Feel all you can, let your heart speak and guide you. Don't be afraid of the love deep inside you.

This is the Unix philosophy. Write programs that do one thing and do it well. Write programs to work together. Write programs that handle text streams, because that is a universal interface.