Famous Quotes & Sayings

Manly Hall

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.

Norman Mailer

Somerset Maugham ... wrote somewhere that "Nobody is any better than he ought to be."... I carried it along with me as a working philosophy, but I suppose that finally I would have to take exception to the thought ... or else the universe is just an elaborate clock.

Neil Young

No one has the answers, but one thing is true. You got to turn on evil, when its coming after you.

Mindy Cohn

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

Patti Smith

I don't like answering to other people's philosophies. I don't have any philosophy, I just believe in stuff. Either I believe in something or I don't. Like, I believe in the Rolling Stones but not in the Dave Clark Five. There's nothing philosophic about it. Whenever I'm linked with a movement, it pisses me off.

Pat Boone

In fact - statistically, as you know - people have done polls, research, and at least 80 percent or more or working media are liberal Democrats if they are involved with any party and certainly liberal in their philosophy.

Kerry King

I don't really have a life philosophy; my thing is just rebelling against pretty much organized religion. That is my main thing, because personally I think it's a crutch for people that are too weak to get through life on their own. I'm the kind of guy that says if I don't see it, then it doesn't work. And nobody can show me God.

Mary Ritter Beard

Unless one's philosophy is all-inclusive, nothing can be understood.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

We must be concerned not merely about who murdered them, but about the system, the way of life, the philosophy which produced the murderers .

Steve Nash

You have good games, you have bad games. You have good years, you have bad years. I have always been kind of philosophical about that.

Jostein Gaarder

It takes billions of years to create a human being. And it takes only a few seconds to die.

Radhanath Swami

Man cannot be enlightened through any organization, creed, dogma, priest or ritual, nor through any philosophical knowledge or psychological technique. He has to find it through understanding the contents of his own mind, through observation, not through intellectual analysis or introspective dissection.

Thomas Aquinas

Whatever is received is received according to the nature of the recipient.

Thomas Aquinas

All the efforts of the human mind cannot exhaust the essence of a single fly.

Thomas Aquinas

All that is true, by whomsoever it has been said has its origin in the Spirit.

Thomas Aquinas

Good can exist without evil, whereas evil cannot exist without good.

Thomas Aquinas

Human salvation demands the divine disclosure of truths surpassing reason.

Thomas Aquinas

Beware of the person of one book.

Anne Sexton

My death from the wrists, two name tags, blood worn like a corsage to bloom one on the left and one on the right.

Lee Krasner

In the late 30s the name Pollock was totally unknown and unheard of.

Peter Greenaway

If Good approved of his creature's creation, He breathed the painted clay-model into life by signing His name.

Al Ries

Only brand names register in the mind... What you should generally do is take a regular word and use it out of context to connote the primary attribute of your brand.

Caryl Chessman

Further, a document names and identifies the actual Red Light Bandits (plural), because in fact there are two.

Curtis Sittenfeld

Foolish names and foolish faces often appear in public places.

Clifford Geertz

Younger anthropologists have the notion that anthropology is too diverse. The number of things done under the name of anthropology is just infinite; you can do anything and call it anthropology