Philosophy Quotes

Punctuation has its own philosophy, just as style does, although not as language does. Style is a good understanding of language, punctuation is a good understanding of style.

Nietzsche was personally more philosophical than his philosophy. His talk about power, harshness, and superb immorality was the hobby of a harmless young scholar and constitutional invalid.

An image of thought called philosophy has been formed historically and it effectively stops people from thinking.

The Occultists, however, know that the traditions of Esoteric Philosophy must be the right ones, simply because they are the most logical, and reconcile every difficulty.

Atheism is based upon a materialist philosophy, which holds that nothing exists but natural phenomena. There are no supernatural forces or entities, nor can there be any. Nature simply exists.

I thought I wanted to be a physicist in high school until I learned that there was much more math than philosophy in it. I assumed I would just sit around all day and think.

The main thing Karate offers to me is a philosophy of life. The philosophy of Karate is respect and discipline. You give 100% of whatever you do, in every activity.

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

Philosophy, having crept clinging to the rocks so far, puts out its feelers many ways in vain.

Language was not given to man: he seized it.

To live without killing is a thought which could electrify the world, if men were only capable of staying awake long enough to let the idea soak in.

Any genuine philosophy leads to action and from action back again to wonder, to the enduring fact of mystery.

When people begin to philosophize they seem to think it necessary to make themselves artificially stupid.

Man may be considered as a superior species of animal that produces philosophies and poems in about the same way a silkworm produces their cocoons and bees their hives.

Broaden your vision, and maintain stability while advancing forward. That is my philosophy.

The point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as not to seem worth stating, and to end with something so paradoxical that no one will believe it.

If philosophy begins in wonder, pedagogy typically begins in frustration.

My philosophy was, if I just do good work, someone will like it enough to employ me. It never made me famous. And I'm way, way too old now, mate. That boat's sailed.

For violence or fraud can create no right.

Perception is not something that happens to us, or in us. It is something we do.

The food we ate was Indian, and both my mother and father were very deep into the ancient philosophy of India, so it could well have been an Indian household.

The profound thinker always suspects that he is superficial.

Philosophy's work is finding the shortest path between two points.

As a matter of writing philosophy, if there is one, I try not to ever plot a story. I try to write it from the character's point of view and see where it goes.

I don't know if that's philosophy or if that's something else, but to me it [digital filming] has an emotional feeling , that this materiality, the loss of the materiality.

History is philosophy teaching by example, and also warning; its two eyes are geography and chronology.

Nothing can have value without being an object of utility.

Fame is but the breath of people, and that often unwholesome.

Genius is the ability to see things invisible, to manipulate things intangible, to paint things that have no features

No literature is sound, no philosophy of action workable, if it doesn't take a hard look at itself.

I really believe in the philosophy that you create your own universe. I'm just trying to create a good one for myself.

Philosophy is the science which considers truth.

Your income is directly related to your philosophy, NOT the economy.

Get the hell out of my way!

I got me a fine wife and I got me old fiddle, when the suns coming up I got cakes on the griddle. And life ain't nothing, but a funny, funny riddle.

This is the highest point of philosophy, to be simple & wise; this is the angelic life.

Loss avoidance must be the cornerstone of your investment philosophy.

According to this philosophy, each man consists of three parts - the body, the internal organ or the mind, and behind that, what is called the Atman, the Self.

To my mind the old masters are not art; their value is in their scarcity.

We cannot sense without acting and we cannot act without sensing.

I'm a dweller of the threshold and I'm waiting at the door, and I'm standing in the darkness, I don't want to wait no more.

I'm into a lot of Eastern philosophy. It's kind of like theosophy; it's about finding the relationships between all the great religions and focusing in on the good stuff.

The renaissance of Christian philosophy has been accompanied by a resurgence of interest in natural theology, that branch of theology that seeks to prove God's existence apart from divine revelation.

Ideas are the source of all things

I started my life with a single absolute: that the world was mine to shape in the image of my highest values and never to be given up to a lesser standard, no matter how long or hard the struggle.

It is therefore senseless to think of complaining since nothing foreign has decided what we feel, what we live, or what we are.

Plato was a bore.

Comedy aims at representing men as worse, Tragedy as better than in actual life.

If tomorrow were never to come, it would not be worth living today.

Anyone who fights for the future, lives in it today.