Famous Quotes & Sayings

C. S. Lewis

The value given to the testimony of any feeling must depend on our whole philosophy, not our whole philosophy on a feeling.

C. S. Lewis

Nature does not teach. A true philosophy may sometimes validate an experience of nature; an experience of nature cannot validate a philosophy. Nature will not verify any theological or metaphysical proposition (or not in the manner we are now considering); she will help to show what it means.

C. S. Lewis

What we learn from experience depends on the kind of philosophy we bring to experience.

Cecelia Ahern

I felt that my views and philosophies had been changed overnight. The philosophies that i had gladly carved in stone, recited and danced upon.

Antoni Tapies

I am interested in study, reflection, philosophy - but always as a dilettante. I also consider myself a dilettante as a painter.

Bertrand Russell

The philosophies that have been inspired by scientific technique are power philosophies, and tend to regard everything non-human as mere raw material. Ends are no longer considered; only the skillfulness of the process is valued. This also is a form of madness. It is, in our day, the most dangerous form, and the one against which a sane philosophy should provide an antidote

Bertrand Russell

Those who advocate common usage in philosophy sometimes speak in a manner that suggests the mystique of the 'common man.'

Bertrand Russell

The doctrine (of) maintaining that the language of daily life, with words used in their ordinary meanings, suffices for philosophy . . . I find myself totally unable to accept . . . . Because it makes almost inevitable the perpetuation amongst philosophers of the muddle-headedness they have taken over from common sense.

Bertrand Russell

Through the greatness of the universe, which philosophy contemplates, the mind also is rendered great, and becomes capable of that union with the universe which constitutes its highest good.

Naguib Mahfouz

Nothing records the effects of a sad life so graphically as the human body.

Octavian Paler

We start to die when we no longer have the power to choose.

Octavian Paler

There is no wilderness. There is only our inability to fill the emptiness in which we live ...

Carrie Brownstein

I really don't know what to do when my life is not chaotic.

Carrie Fisher

My life is like a lone, forgotten Q-Tip in the second-to-last drawer.

Bethenny Frankel

Truthfully, my life is always lunacy.

Arsene Wenger

Private life is private life. Off the pitch, there is private life, and the rest is social life, where of course you have to behave responsibly.

Djuna Barnes

Life is not to be told, call it as loud as you like, it will not tell itself.

David Rubenstein

My work life is intense. But I love what I do.

Aaron Swartz

Life is short ... so why waste it doing something dumb?

Charlie Chaplin

Nothing in life is permanent, not even one's troubles.

Alan Alda

life is meaningless unless you bring meaning to it; ... it is up to us to create our own existence. Unless you do something, unless you make something it's as though you aren't there.