Philosophy Quotes

What has not been examined impartially has not been well examined. Skepticism is therefore the first step towards truth.

Philosophy would render us entirely Pyrrhonian, were not nature too strong for it.

Unalienable rights are essential limitations to all governments.

The philosophy I shared... was one of ambition - ambition to succeed, ambition to grow, ambition to move forward - backed up by hard work.

Only by zealously guarding the rights of the most humble, the most unorthodox, and the most despised among us can freedom flourish and endure in our land.

I have said my philosophy - I'm a backyard philosopher, I guess - is that the dirtiest word in the English language is "retirement."

There is no such thing as philosophy-free science, just science that has been conducted without any consideration of its underlying philosophical assumptions.

I have a social philosophy; you have political opinions; he has an ideology.

Can there be in our age any peace that is not honorable, any war that is not dishonorable?

There's a difference between a philosophy and a bumper sticker.

There are three modes of bearing the ills of life; by indifference, which is the most common; by philosophy, which is the most ostentatious; and by religion, which is the most effectual.

My philosophy is that the club is more important than anyone!

Philosophy is the replacement of category-habits by category-disciplines.

As Hamlet tells his friend, ''There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.'' Well then, we must try harder to dream!

My philosophy is "Where is it written that at 40 you give up all your toys?" If I'm still having a great time doing something, I'm going to keep on doing it.

let me forget about today until tomorrow

In philosophy, it is not the attainment of the goal that matters, it is the things that are met with by the way

Philosophy starts with doubt and loves only truth.

Analysis kills spontaneity.

History is philosophy teaching by example and also by warning.

It's the one who won't be taken that cannot seem to give, and the soul afraid of dying that never learns to live.

You cannot step twice into the same river.

To be deprived of art and left alone with philosophy is to be close to Hell.

The business of philosophy is not to give rules, but to analyze the private judgments of common reason.

I think the Greeks invented sports as an antidote to philosophy.

I don't believe in philosophies. I believe in fundamentals.

I want to build up my philosophy... my philosophy with kung fu is to respect people.

My philosophy on writing books is that if you learn only one new thing, or even get a new take on something you already know, it's worth it.

Desire is the very essence of man

Man is abandoned on earth in the midst of his infinite responsibilities, without help, with no aim but what he sets himself.

If you open your heart, then the object of your love becomes so precious because you are so open. And that philosophy, that caring, spreads.

It was the greatest sensation of existence: not to trust but to know.

Tell me what a person finds sexually attractive and I will tell you their entire philosophy of life. Show me the person they sleep with and I will tell you their valuation of themselves.

Every situation--nay, every moment--is of infinite worth; for it is the representative of a whole eternity.

Atheism is a disease of the mind caused by eating underdone philosophy

To know the hight [sic] of a mountain, one must climb it.

Here is a philosophy of boldness to take advantage of every tiny opening toward victory.

But the need for conflict to expose prejudice and unclear reasoning, which is deeply embedded in my philosophy of science, has its origin in these debates.

The excellence of a thing is related to its proper function.

Those who have been eminent in philosophy, politics, poetry, and the arts have all had tendencies toward melancholia.

We must become just be doing just acts.

Our philosophy is about reaching back to move forward. We have something different to say with a sensibility that is both old and new.

My philosophy is that when I go out of my room, I'm prepared to love everybody I meet, unless they're bad.

Sign language is the equal of speech, lending itself equally to the rigorous and the poetic, to philosophical analysis or to making love.

In the eyes of dialectical philosophy, nothing is established for all times, nothing is absolute or sacred.

As long as I draw breath and am able, I won't give up practicing philosophy.

Few of us have lost our minds, but most of us have long ago lost our bodies.

These are the times, the times of our own, these are the shapes the world we formed.

I am the East. I have philosophies, I have religions, who would exchange them for airplanes?

Philosophy began when man ate the produce of the earth and suffered indigestion.