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philosophy priorities substance
Philosophy is the science of estimating values. The superiority of any state or substance over another is determined by philosophy. By assigning a position of primary importance to what remains when all that is secondary has been removed, philosophy thus becomes the true index of priority or emphasis in the realm of speculative thought. Manly Hall
philosophy writing people
I got a bit obsessed with the whole English language and was writing journals and poetry. I've always been intrigued about psychology and philosophy and how people's minds work. Lara Pulver
philosophy nice makeup
Well, I always tried to look nice and be feminine even in the worst tragedies and crisis, there's no reason to add to everyone's misery by looking miserable yourself. That's my philosophy. This is why I always wore makeup and jewelry into the jungle-nothing too extravagant, but maybe just a nice gold bracelet and some earrings, a little lipstick, good perfume. Just enough to show that I still had my self-respect. Elizabeth Gilbert
philosophy want giving-back
Be the change that you want to see Mahatma Gandhi
philosophy thinking long
You can imagine over very long timescales, perhaps far beyond the multi-decade time scale, we might be able to ask very deep questions about why we feel the way we feel about things, or why we think of ourselves in certain ways - questions that have been in the realm of psychology and philosophy but have been very difficult to get a firm mechanistic laws-of-physics grasp on. Edward Boyden
philosophy talking differences
The Darwinian movement has made no difference to mankind, except that, instead of talking unphilosophically about philosophy, they now talk unscientifically about science. Gilbert K. Chesterton
philosophy way greek-philosophy
The way up and the way down are one and the same. Heraclitus
philosophy golf romance
Golf is 20 percent mechanics and technique. The other 80 pecent is philosophy, humor, tragedy, romance, melodrama, companionship, camaraderie, cussedness and conversation. Grantland Rice
philosophy simple men
When I had gone through the whole, and saw what a plain, simple, reasonable thing Christianity was, suited to all conditions and capacities; and in the morality of it now, with divine authority, established into a legible law, so far surpassing all that philosophy and human reason had attained to, or could possibly make effectual to all degrees of man kind; I was flattered to think it might be of some use in the world. John Locke
ideas people important
In many ways ideas are more important than people - they are much more permanent. Charles Kettering
ideas common-sense reform
A balanced program for tax reform based upon the common sense idea of lowering taxes out of surplus revenues. Andrew Mellon
ideas facts proof
A fact in itself is nothing. It is valuable only for the idea attached to it, or for the proof which it furnishes. Claude Bernard
ideas progress get-better
With capitalism and prosperity came something new: the idea of progress. This is the notion that things are getting better and will continue to get better in the future. Dinesh D'Souza
ideas mind ambitious
Bill and Hillary Clinton have one central idea in their uncluttered, ambitious minds: Hillary in 2008. Let Bush get re-elected, use the '04 primaries and general election to clean out the underbrush of competing Democratic candidates, and proceed unimpeded to the '08 nomination. Dick Morris
ideas decision church
The thing that makes me really outraged, is the idea that the Mormon Church would presume to get involved in decisions that have little to do with Mormonism. Andrew Solomon
ideas evil hurtful
The idea of anyone contemplating our family and witnessing the affection that we all have for one another and seeing evil in it is deeply hurtful and sad; and also deeply bewildering.
ideas soul language
The experience of being depressed and emerging from depression made me understand the idea of a soul. I felt that the language in which one could best acknowledge that drew from faith.
ideas focus language
Lets take the best of our ideas from Global Drucker Forum, and the best of our language, and then focus and clarify. Clayton Christensen
people save threatened
Some people think that because it's a threatened species, that every one we save is good. But not if they never get to live in the wild. Andy Johnson
people though
Nowadays it seems as though people sit down to write what they know is going to be a trilogy. Lois Lowry
people sucked wealth
Tell the people of Serbia how much wealth you have sucked out during the same years they have been impoverished in Serbia, Robin Cook
people pursue socially societies tech
Tech innovation is something societies have to pursue as vigorously as they can. We have to innovate civically and socially at the same rate; otherwise, you create unfortunate disruptions, and that's where you have people opposing technological innovations. Nick Hanauer
people portray written
Sometimes I want to convey something complex philosophically, and sometimes I just want to portray myself in a situation that I think other people have been in many times, but it hasn't been written about much. Harvey Pekar
people
Pressure makes people react in different ways. Some people plunge in, and others take the way out. Ron Moody
people poor poverty
Poverty must have its satisfactions, else there would not be so many poor people Don Herold
people perhaps remember voice
Perhaps people will remember my voice and what I was able to do with it.
people perhaps
Perhaps people are saying, 'I'm going to hunker down,' Jeb Bush