Philosophy Quotes

We ought to have more people who believe in constitutionally limited government. We have to have more people come to Congress with that mindset. I think we can make this a better place, if, when elections happen, we support candidates who share that philosophy.

Press conferences are good. I have my own philosophy about press conferences. I usually think that when they don't like the movie, they ask about other things.

There is no shorter path for joining a neutral existential anthropology, according to philosophy, with the existential decision before God, according to the Bible.

Art requires philosophy, just as philosophy requires art. Otherwise, what would become of beauty?

All the most prominent Darwinists proclaim naturalistic philosophy when they think it safe to do so.

History is Philosophy teaching by examples.

Real misanthropes are not found in solitude, but in the world; since it is experience of life, and not philosophy, which produces real hatred of mankind.

My whole philosophy is to broadcast the way a fan would broadcast.

I just learned my lyrics and tried not to bump into the trumpet player. That was my philosophy.

It has generally been assumed that of two opposing systems of philosophy, e.g., realism and idealism, one only can be true and one must be false; and so philosophers have been hopelessly divided on the question, which is the true one.

Philosophy means nothing unless it is connected to birth, death, and the continuance of life. Anytime you are going to build a society that works, you have to begin from nature and the body.

Any philosophy that can be put in a nutshell belongs there.

Ordinary people seem not to realize that those who really apply themselves in the right way to philosophy are directly and of their own accord preparing themselves for dying and death.

Philosophy: A route of many roads leading from nowhere to nothing.

The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.

I very rarely read any fiction. I love biographies; I read about all kinds of people. I love theology and some philosophy.

What sort of philosophy one chooses depends on what sort of person one is.

When Keats says: 'Axioms in philosophy are not axioms until they are proved upon our pulses', what he means is that we don't necessarily believe what a poem is saying if it comes out and tells us in an absolutely head-on, in-your-face way; we only believe it to be true if we feel it to be true.

Hard distinctions make bad philosophy.

Before I joined the project most of the English people with whom I had made personal contacts were left wing and affected to some degree or other by the same kind of philosophy.

One's philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes... and the choices we make are ultimately our responsibility.

I find purer philosophy in a Poem than in a Conclusion of Geometry, a chemical analysis, or a physical law.

From cell phones to computers, quality is improving and costs are shrinking as companies fight to offer the public the best product at the best price. But this philosophy is sadly missing from our health-care insurance system.

One may summon his philosophy when they are beaten in battle, not till then.

Religion is doing; a man does not merely think his religion or feel it, he lives his religion as much as he is able, otherwise it is not religion but fantasy or philosophy.

Academe, n.: An ancient school where morality and philosophy were taught. Academy, n.: A modern school where football is taught.

The myth that John Locke was the philosopher behind the American Republic, is easily refuted by examining how Locke's philosophy steered Thomas Jefferson, for example.

I enjoy getting things done. My philosophy is the edge, the edge of something. There's where we have to go in local government, in not only the philosophy but the creativity in people around you. They have to go to the edge.

Those who lack the courage will always find a philosophy to justify it.

My philosophy of leadership is to surround myself with good people who have ability, judgment and knowledge, but above all, a passion for service.