Philosophy Quotes

Philosophy, like medicine, has plenty of drugs, few good remedies, and hardly any specific cures.

It is, then, by those shadows of the hoary Past and their fantastic silhouettes on the external screen of every religion and philosophy, that we can, by checking them as we go along, and comparing them, trace out finally the body that produced them.

Human knowledge is dark and uncertain; philosophy is dark, astrology is dark, and geometry is dark.

My dad had this philosophy that if you tell children they're beautiful and wonderful then they believe it, and they will be. So I never thought I was unattractive. But I was never one of the girls at school who had lots of boyfriends.

It is the liberal philosophy, not the conservative one, that views humans as selfish automatons.

Truth in philosophy means that concept and external reality correspond.

I had a liberal arts education at Amherst College where I had two majors, mathematics and philosophy.

Skepticism is a virtue in history as well as in philosophy.

It's clear to me that there is no good reason for many philosophy books to sound as complicated as they do.

My personal philosophy is, you can be sure of nothing.

Nintendo's philosophy is never to go the easy path; it's always to challenge ourselves and try to do something new.

We have no firm hold on any knowledge or philosophy that can lift us out of our difficulties.

However, while the Nazi barbarians and their collaborators threatened the entire world, I could not accept his philosophy and, after several earlier attempts, was finally accepted into the Canadian Infantry Corps during the last year of World War II.

A new philosophy generally means in practice the praise of some old vice.

Ethical and questions of philosophy interest me a great deal.

The only thing Martha and I have in common is that we both used to model. 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.

The chief benefit, which results from philosophy, arises in an indirect manner, and proceeds more from its secret, insensible influence, than from its immediate application.

People who decide they came to earth to work, who make work their personal philosophy, are kept very busy.

I think that the basic philosophy was very good. It was just be nice to each other, and don't step on other people's toes and infringe on their freedom.

You know, I've taught philosophy for years and one argues in the hypothetical all the time.

The philosophy of the wisest man that ever existed, is mainly derived from the act of introspection.

People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind.

I chose philosophy because it sounded like something I ought to be interested in. I didn't know anything about it, I didn't even know what it was talking about. What I really spent my time doing in those years was writing short stories. There were all sorts of interesting courses, but what I really wanted to do was make stories one way or another.

Strive to be authentic all the time. That's sort of my philosophy on life, which applies to acting.

You always really have to remain consistent in your beliefs and philosophy.

There are three modes of bearing the ills of life, by indifference, by philosophy, and by religion.

Well, I think that Augusta is not the same golf course that I grew up on. Bobby Jones' philosophy was giving you space off the tee; if you put it in the right side of the fairway, you ended up getting the right angle to the green.

Like the winds that we come we know not whence and blow whither soever they list, the forces of society are derived from an obscure and distant origin. They arise before the date of philosophy, from the instincts, not the speculations of men.

I set forth a humble and inglorious life; that does not matter. You can tie up all moral philosophy with a common and private life just as well as with a life of richer stuff. Each man bears the entire form of man's estate.

I make music that I know that people will enjoy, and balance the ideas and philosophy that we put in music with music that when we play it live, people can move to it and groove to it.