Quotes about philosophy
philosophy believe passion
If you are in passionate love and want to celebrate your passion, read poetry. If your ardor has calmed and you want to understand your evolving relationship, read psychology. But if you have just ended a relationship and would like to believe you are better off without love, read philosophy. Jonathan Haidt
philosophy two numbers
What is … important is that we — number one: Learn to live with each other. Number two: try to bring out the best in each other. The best from the best, and the best from those who, perhaps, might not have the same endowment. And so this bespeaks an entirely different philosophy — a different way of life — a different kind of relationship — where the object is not to put down the other, but to raise up the other. Jonas Salk
philosophy thinking progress
I speak about universal evolution and teleological evolution; because I think the process of evolution reflects the wisdom of nature. I see the need for wisdom to become operative. We need to try to put all of these things together in what I call an evolutionary philosophy of our time.
philosophy politics facts
But this is the kind of ass-clownery that stems from the fact that all philosophy looks weird when you don't have one. Jonah Goldberg
philosophy medicine common-sense
Philosophy is common sense with big words. James Madison
philosophy believe ocean
The world is changing, but I am not changing with it. There is no e-reader or Kindle in my future. My philosophy is simple: Certain things are perfect the way they are. The sky, the Pacific Ocean, procreation and the Goldberg Variations all fit this bill, and so do books. Books are sublimely visceral, emotionally evocative objects that constitute a perfect delivery systemBooks that we can touch; books that we can smell; books that we can depend on. Books that make us believe, for however short a time, that we shall all live happily ever after. Joe Queenan
philosophy mean buddhism
For me, Buddhism is a psychology and a philosophy that provides a means, upayas, for working with the mind. Joan Halifax
philosophy evil sides
Good and evil lay side by side. Jimi Hendrix
philosophy truth-is
The truth is straight ahead, so don't burn yourself instead.
philosophy men knows
Without philosophy man cannot know what he makes; without religion he cannot know why. Eric Gill
philosophy men promise
Anarchism is the only philosophy which brings to man the consciousness of himself; which maintains that God, the State, and society are non-existent, that their promises are null and void, since they can be fulfilled only through man's subordination. Emma Goldman
philosophy views political
It requires something more than personal experience to gain a philosophy or point of view from any specific event. It is the quality of our response to the event and our capacity to enter into the lives of others that help us to make their lives and experiences our own. In my own case my convictions have derived and developed from events in the lives of others as well as from my own experience. What I have seen meted out to others by authority and repression, economic and political, transcends anything I myself may have endured.
philosophy punishment people
Consciously or unconsciously, most theists see in gods and devils, heaven and hell, reward and punishment, a whip to lash the people into obedience, meekness and contentment.... The philosophy of atheism expresses the expansion and growth of the human mind. The philosophy of theism, if we can call it a philosophy, is static and fixed.
philosophy world phases
Anarchism, the great leaven of thought, is today permeating every phase of human endeavor.... It is the philosophy of the sovereignty of the individual. It is the theory of social harmony. It is the great, surging, living truth that is reconstructing the world, and that will usher in the Dawn.
philosophy mean men
The triumph of the philosophy of Atheism is to free man from the nightmare of gods; it means the dissolution of the phantoms of the beyond.
philosophy men order
ANARCHISM:The philosophy of a new social order based on liberty unrestricted by man-made law; the theory that all forms of government rest on violence, and are therefore wrong and harmful, as well as unnecessary.
philosophy want-something goal
My philosophy is that, in life, you have to want something. If you just say "la-la-la" and go through life without a goal, nothing will happen. Heidi Klum
philosophy lines satisfied
With no bottom line, it's hard to know wrong from right. But I ain't ever satisfied. John Mellencamp
philosophy dark astrology
Human knowledge is dark and uncertain; philosophy is dark, astrology is dark, and geometry is dark. John Jewel
philosophy remember owen-meany
Imagining something is better than remembering something. John Irving
philosophy party broken
The violence had broken out in both sides, but our philosophy as a party was very, very clear John Hume
philosophy party agreement
In coming to that agreement, my party had a clear philosophy throughout. In Northern Ireland, we should have institutions that respected the differences of the people and that gave no victory to either side.
philosophy fire doubt
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
philosophy men differences
The difference between the reason of man and the instinct of the beast is this, that the beast does but know, but the man knows that he knows.
philosophy thinking confusion
One of the questions on which clarity of thinking is now most necessary is that of the relation between the methods of science and of Marxist philosophy. Although much has already been written on the subject, yet there is still an enormous amount of confusion and contradictory statement. John Desmond Bernal
philosophy dogma surrender
Modern philosophy certainly exacts a surrender of all supernaturalism and fixed dogma and rigid institutionalism with which Christianity has been historically associated John Dewey
philosophy cake wife
I got me a fine wife and I got me old fiddle, when the suns coming up I got cakes on the griddle. And life ain't nothing, but a funny, funny riddle. John Denver
philosophy believe giving
Aspen is the life to live, see how much there is to give. See how strongly you believe, see how much you may receive.
philosophy ocean wind
To live on the land we must learn from the ocean, to be true as the tide and free as the wind swell.
philosophy law broken
Education Proceeds ultimately from the patterns furnished by institutions, customs, and laws"- If the patterns of institutions, customs, and laws are broken for this philosophy education should fix itself. There should be several different things taught instead of one "Supreme Factor.
philosophy france reason
Without the English, reason and philosophy would still be in the most despicable infancy in France.
philosophy finals inquiry
The moment philosophy supposes it can find a final and comprehensive solution, it ceases to be inquiry and becomes either apologetics or propaganda.
philosophy thinking purpose
There is, I think, no point in the philosophy of progressive education which is sounder than its emphasis upon the importance of the participation of the learner in the formation of the purposes which direct his [sic] activities in the learning process, just as there is no defect in traditional education greater than its failure to secure the active cooperation of the pupil in construction of the purposes involved in his studying.