Philosophy Quotes

A liberal is only a bundle of prejudices until he has mastered, has understood, experienced the philosophy of Conservatism.

Can reason be an idol? Certainly. The philosophy of rationalism puts human reason in the place of God as the source and standard of all truth.

This, by the way, is the welfare state in action: Its a whole bunch of special interest groups screwing consumers and taxpayers, and making them think they're really benefiting.

Mind is locked in matter like the spirit Ariel in a cloven pine. Like Ariel, men struggle to escape the drag of the matter they inhabit, yet it is the spirit that they fear.

I live by the philosophy that beauty starts from within, and I make a conscious effort to fill my body with nutrients through the food I eat.

Art is nothing more than the shadow of humanity.

As a result of my philosophy, I wasn't even upset about Hitler. I was willing to go to war to knock him off, but I didn't hate him. I hated what he was doing.

I would not think that philosophy and reason themselves will be man's guide in the foreseeable future; however, they will remain the most beautiful sanctuary they have always been for the select few.

There are metaphysical problems, problems of human existence, that philosophy has never known how to grasp in all their concreteness and that only the novel can seize.

When the pain is great enough, we will let anyone be doctor.

Therefore there is not anything which returns to nothing, but all things return dissolved into their elements.

The distinctive principle of Western social philosophy is individualism.

The love of all-inclusiveness is as dangerous in philosophy as in art.

Black and white is how it should be, but shades of grey are the colors I see.

In the world today, only a philosophy of eternity could justify non-violence.

It's a rite of passage for the everyman, to a higher ground.

I wonder how it is that people's philosophies have come to spin faster than the changing seasons.

I am beginning to see a large-scale introduction of various management tools, philosophies and practices in the service sectors and have a high hope that it will become a global trend.

A cosmic philosophy is not constructed to fit a man; a cosmic philosophy is constructed to fit a cosmos. A man can no more possess a private religion than he can possess a private sun and moon.

Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the fundamental question of philosophy.

They declaim against the passions without bothering to think that it is from their flame philosophy lights its torch.

Life has a funny way of helping you out when you think that everything's gone wrong.

Time is an ocean, but it ends at the shore.

Benefit to the community precedes benefit to the individual.

Only in the struggle between two philosophies can the weapon of brutal force, persistently and ruthlessly applied, lead to a decision for the side it supports.

Every cause that ever I fought, I fought it full without regret or shame.

I know of no long-time practitioner who regrets adhering to a value philosophy; few investors who embrace the fundamental principles ever abandon this investment approach for another

My philosophy is that everything starts with a great product.

If nothing is the way it seems, then this life is just a haunted dream.

Any creed whose basic doctrines do not include respect for the creeds of others, is simply power politics masquerading as philosophy.

Never trust people that like to call things by initials, that's my philosophy.

Initially, I studied philosophy, because it claimed to give you answers to the meaning of existence, but it didnt: It was basically a semantics game.

Philosophy ... must not bargain away anything of the emphatic concept of truth.

The band has a liberal philosophy - that's sort of a given.

Careerism: the self-centered philosophy of governing to win the next election above all else.

You have to adhere to a philosophy that the life unexamined is not worth living, because otherwise you're just living from day to day and you don't have any real sense of yourself or where you are.

When one man speaks to another man who doesn't understand him, and when a man who's speaking no longer understands, it's metaphysics.

All is for the best in the best of all possible worlds.

Nothing is easier than to simplify life and them make a philosophy about it. The trouble is that the resulting philosophy is true only of that simplified life.

Philosophical theories or ideas, as points of view, instruments of criticism, may help us to gather up what might otherwise pass unregarded by us.

It is one of the consolations of philosophy that the benefit of showing how to dispense with a concept does not hinge on dispensing with it.

Philosophy is "an unusually stubborn attempt to think clearly.

In scorn of nature, art gave lifeless life.

My philosophy of life can be summed up in four words: It can't be helped.

Personal philosophy: Clothing optional

Your educators can only be your liberators.

Whoever wishes to become a philosopher must learn not to be frightened by absurdities.

Travel is never a matter of money but of courage

Philosophy, from the earliest times, has made greater claims, and achieved fewer results, than any other branch of learning.

Violence begins with the fork.