Philosophy Quotes

Men are not allowed to think freely about chemistry and biology: why should they be allowed to think freely about political philosophy?

Rightly defined philosophy is simply the love of wisdom.

I took all the philosophy courses I could.

So that's my philosophy: If you believe in yourself, the chances and the opportunities will come around.

I think we ought always to entertain our opinions with some measure of doubt. I shouldn't wish people dogmatically to believe any philosophy, not even mine.

As a universal history of philosophy, the history of philosophy must become one great unity.

There will be no end to the troubles of states, or of humanity itself, till philosophers become kings in this world, or till those we now call kings and rulers really and truly become philosophers, and political power and philosophy thus come into the same hands.

Jacques Derrida is a very important thinker and philosopher who has made serious contributions to both philosophy and literary criticism. Roland Barthes is the one I feel most affinity for, and Michel Foucault, well, his writing influenced my novel, 'Middlesex.'

Philosophy goes no further than probabilities, and in every assertion keeps a doubt in reserve.

Science may eventually explain the world of How. The ultimate world of Why may remain for contemplation, philosophy, religion.

Our intonations contain our philosophy of life, what each of us is constantly telling himself about things.

History is the great dust-heap... a pageant and not a philosophy.

Your philosophy determines whether you will go for the disciplines or continue the errors.

Liberals worry that what's best for the individual might not be better for the public at large. But that philosophy assumes something vicious about each and every one of us. It assumes we only care about ourselves.

Because philosophy arises from awe, a philosopher is bound in his way to be a lover of myths and poetic fables. Poets and philosophers are alike in being big with wonder.

Our Fly Smart philosophy is about investing only on those points of differentiation that pay for themselves, that earn a revenue premium commensurate with what it costs us to provide that product or service.

The present basic philosophy is nuclear deterrence.

The pretended physical philosophy of modern days strips Man of all his moral attributes, or holds them of no account in the estimate of his origin and place in the created world.

Plato's philosophy is a dignified preface to future religion.

Darwinism as presented by Darwin contradicted idealistic philosophy, and this contradiction grew deeper with the development of its materialist teaching.

It seems essential to try to find some meaning to life and I guess Jungian philosophy is the one that's helped me understand myself and the world more than anything else.

My fashion philosophy is that if I like it, I wear it.

I just want to be healthy and happy. I don't want to hurt anybody or make them mad. If that's a philosophy then that's my philosophy.

Philosophy is the product of wonder.

The Copernican revolution brought about by Kant was, I think, the most important single turning point in the history of philosophy.

One has only as much morality as one has philosophy and poetry.

I have no philosophy, my favourite thing is sitting in the studio.

My philosophy is to be me.

It should now be clear why the method of Philosophy is so different from that of the natural sciences. Experiments are not made, because they would be utterly useless.

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.