Quotes with philosophy

  • When he who hears does not know what he who speaks means, and when he who speaks does not know what he himself means, that is philosophy.
  • I have a simple philosophy: Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. Scratch where it itches.
  • In philosophy, or religion, or ethics, or politics, two and two might make five, but when one was designing a gun or an aeroplane they had to make four.
  • A cold atheistical materialism is the tendency of the so-called material philosophy of the present day.
  • How charming is divine philosophy! Not harsh and crabbed, as dull fools suppose, but musical as is Apollo's lute, and a perpetual feast of nectared sweets, where no crude surfeit reigns.
  • People who love soft methods and hate iniquity forget this,  that reform consists in taking a bone from a dog. Philosophy will not do it.
  • I know that you, ladies and gentlemen, have a philosophy, each and all of you, and that the most interesting and important thing about you is the way in which it determines the perspective in your several worlds.
  • To overturn orthodoxy is no easier in science than in philosophy, religion, economics, or any of the other disciplines through which we try to comprehend the world and the society in which we live.
  • 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.
  • Life is really about a spiritual unfolding that is personal and enchanting - an unfolding that no science or philosophy or religion has yet fully clarified.
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche Every philosophy is the philosophy of some stage of life.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • C. S. Lewis Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art. It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • Henry David Thoreau Poetry implies the whole truth, philosophy expresses only a particle of it.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Aristotle I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law.
    Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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  • Denis Waitley Procrastination is the fear of success. People procrastinate because they are afraid of the success that they know will result if they move ahead now. Because success is heavy, carries a responsibility with it, it is much easier to procrastinate and live on the 'someday I'll' philosophy.
    Denis Waitley
    American motivational speaker, writer and consultant (1933 - )
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  • Giuseppe Mazzini The republic, as I at least understand it, means association, of which liberty is only an element, a necessary antecedent. It means association, a new philosophy of life, a divine Ideal that shall move the world, the only means of regeneration vouchsafed to the human race.
    Giuseppe Mazzini
    Italian writer (1805 - 1872)
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  • Bertrand Russell There will still be things that machines cannot do. They will not produce great art or great literature or great philosophy; they will not be able to discover the secret springs of happiness in the human heart; they will know nothing of love and friendship.
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • Voltaire When he who hears does not know what he who speaks means, and when he who speaks does not know what he himself means, that is philosophy.
    Voltaire
    French writer and philosopher (ps. of Fran ois Marie Arouet) (1694 - 1778)
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  • Adam Sedgwick A cold atheistical materialism is the tendency of the so-called material philosophy of the present day.
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton 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.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • Francis Bacon A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, But depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton A new philosophy generally means in practice the praise of some old vice.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • Albert Camus A novel is never anything, but a philosophy put into images.
    Albert Camus
    French writer, essayist and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1956) (1913 - 1960)
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  • William Winwood Reade A religion so cheerless, a philosophy so sorrowful, could never have succeeded with the masses of mankind if presented only as a system of metaphysics. Buddhism owed its success to its catholic spirit and its beautiful morality.
    William Winwood Reade
    British historian (1838 - 1875)
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  • Charles Dickens Accidents will occur in the best-regulated families; and in families not regulated by that pervading influence which sanctifies while it enhances... in short, by the influence of Woman, in the lofty character of Wife, they may be expected with confidence, and must be borne with philosophy.
    Charles Dickens
    English writer (1812 - 1870)
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  • Epictetus All philosophy lies in two words, sustain and abstain.
    Epictetus
    Roman philosopher (50 - 130)
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  • Ernest Dimnet All serious conversations gravitate towards philosophy.
    Ernest Dimnet
    French priest, writer and lecturer (1866 - 1954)
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  • Camille Paglia All the genres of philosophy, science, high art, athletics and politics were invented by men. But by the Promethean law of conflict and capture, woman has a right to seize what she will and vie with man on her own terms.
    Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990)
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Martha Graham America does not concern itself now with Impressionism. We own no involved philosophy. The psyche of the land is to be found in its movement. It is to be felt as a dramatic force of energy and vitality. We move; we do not stand still. We have not yet arrived at the stock-taking stage.
    Martha Graham
    American modern dancer and choreographer (1894 - 1991)
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  • John Donne And new Philosophy calls all in doubt, the element of fire is quite put out; the Sun is lost, and the earth, and no mans wit can well direct him where to look for it.
    John Donne
    English poet (1572 - 1631)
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