Famous Quotes & Sayings

Will Cuppy

My philosophy of life can be summed up in four words: It can't be helped.

Will Ferrell

Personal philosophy: Clothing optional

Will Durant

A history of civilization shares the presumptuousness of every philosophical enterprise: it offers the ridiculous spectacle of a fragment expounding the whole. Like philosophy, such a venture has no rational excuse, and is at best but a brave stupidity; but let us hope that, like philosophy, it will always lure some rash spirits into its fatal depths.

Will Durant

In its youth a people produce mythology and poetry; in its decadence, philosophy and logic.

Will Durant

Philosophy begins when one learns to doubt -- particularly to doubt one's cherished beliefs, one's dogmas and one's axioms.

Will Durant

Philosophy is harmonized knowledge making a harmonious life; it is the self-discipline which lifts us to serenity and freedom. Knowledge is power, but only wisdom is liberty.

Will Durant

Science without philosophy, facts without perspective and valuation, cannot save us from havoc and despair. Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.

Will Durant

It is true that even across the Himalayan barrier India has sent to the west, such gifts as grammar and logic, philosophy and fables, hypnotism and chess, and above all numerals and the decimal system.

Will Durant

There is no real philosophy until the mind turns around and examines itself.

Will Durant

Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.

Sarah Palin

If any vegans came over for dinner, I could whip them up a salad, then explain my philosophy on being a carnivore: If God had not intended for us to eat animals, how come He made them out of meat?

Sarah Brightman

Philosophy changes day by day.

Sarah Ban Breathnach

My philosophy is very simple: when in doubt, take a bath.

Richard M. Nixon

Television is to news as bumperstickers are to philosophy.

Richard Rorty

As long as we try to project from the relative and conditioned to the absolute and unconditioned, we shall keep the pendulum swinging between dogmatism and skepticism. The only way to stop this increasingly tiresome pendulum swing is to change our conception of what philosophy is good for. But that is not something which will be accomplished by a few neat arguments. It will be accomplished, if it ever is, by a long, slow process of cultural change - that is to say, of change in common sense, changes in the intuitions available for being pumped up by philosophical arguments.

Richard Rorty

Philosophy makes progress not by becoming more rigorous but by becoming more imaginative.

Richard Courant

For scholars and laymen alike it is not philosophy but active experience in mathematics itself that can alone answer the question: What is mathematics?

Tullian Tchividjian

When God saved me, He gave me a thirst to learn and to read and to study. I thrived in college. I got a bachelor's degree in philosophy and then went to Reformed Theological Seminary in Orlando.

Tori Amos

These precious things, let them bleed.

Roger Ailes

Capitalism works. In the end, socialism imploded on itself. Communism imploded on itself. Ultimately jihadism will implode on itself, if we stay in the fight and stay on offense because failed philosophies don't work, there's no future.

Robin Williams

The only weapon we have is comedy.

Robin Williams

Crying never helped anybody do anything, okay? You have a problem you face it like a man.

Robin Williams

When you have a great audience, you can just keep going and finding new things.

Robin Williams

All you have to do is think one happy thought, and you'll fly like me.

Robin Williams

There's three things in this world that you need: Respect for all kinds of life, a nice bowel movement on a regular basis, and a navy blazer.

Robin Williams

But if there's love, dear... those are the ties that bind, and you'll have a family in your heart, forever.

Robin Williams

Good people end up in Hell because they can't forgive themselves.

Robin Williams

A human life is just a heartbeat in heaven.

Robin Williams

Please, don't worry so much. Because in the end, none of us have very long on this Earth. Life is fleeting.

Robin Williams

You treat a disease, you win, you lose. You treat a person, I guarantee you, you'll win, no matter what the outcome.

Robin Williams

I'm a very tolerant man, except when it comes to holding a grudge.

Robin Williams

For a while you get mad, then you get over it.

Robin Williams

Gentlemen, haven't we learned anything from the music of John Lennon? All we need is love.