Philosophy Quotes

As a scholar I am interested in the philosophy of language, semiotics, call it what you want, and one of the main features of the human language is the possibility of lying.

I stepped away to find out more about myself, which I was having difficulty doing as a football player. I got a chance to travel the world. I studied Eastern philosophy, and I've grown as a person so much.

The human imagination... has great difficulty in living strictly within the confines of a materialist practice or philosophy. It dreams, like a dog in its basket, of hares in the open.

Evolution is a bankrupt speculative philosophy, not a scientific fact.

But it is the province of religion, of philosophy, of pure poetry only, to go beyond life, beyond time, into eternity.

The proverbial philosophy of a people helps us to understand more about them than any other kind of literature.

Even if you only want to write science fiction, you should also read mysteries, poetry, mainstream literature, history, biography, philosophy, and science.

Isn't that an odd philosophy for a vampire?

Coaching really is an individual philosophy.

What does mysticism really mean? It means the way to attain knowledge. It's close to philosophy, except in philosophy you go horizontally while in mysticism you go vertically.

I had a philosophy, which may have been proven right, that directing isn't as hard as everyone says it is.

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

I think the way IBM has embraced the open source philosophy has been quite astonishing, but gratifying. I hope they'll do very well with it.

Parent hard, play hard. That's my philosophy.

My philosophy in life, where I was trying to get, could have been a little bit different.

People look for morals in fiction because there has always been a confusion between fiction and philosophy.

In coming to that agreement, my party had a clear philosophy throughout. In Northern Ireland, we should have institutions that respected the differences of the people and that gave no victory to either side.

My philosophy is I'm raising future adults, not children.

Martha Stewart is extremely talented. Her designs are picture perfect. Our philosophy is life is messy, and rather than being afraid of those messes we design products that work the way we live.

At the present moment, the security of coherent philosophy, which existed from Parmenides to Hegel, is lost.

I am concerned, rather, that there should not be more things dreamt of in my philosophy than there actually are in heaven and earth.

The hunger for facile wisdom is the root of all false philosophy.

My philosophy is to take one day at a time. I don't worry about the future. Tomorrow is even out of sight for me.

Yeah, but in the end his followers take what they want from his philosophy. Maybe it doesn't matter what's going on in David Icke's mind. It's how other people take him.

Philosophy is properly home-sickness; the wish to be everywhere at home.

Philosophy finds it an easy matter to vanquish past and future evils, but the present are commonly too hard for it.

In my writing with Extreme, there are heavy themes. The cover photo has me with a gun to my neck. I am not advocating suicide. I am taking the philosophy that man is the measure of his own fate.

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.

I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.

Allow me a bit of philosophy here... We started tele skiing as a rebellion against rules.