Famous Quotes & Sayings

Michel Onfray

I discovered philosophy in my youth when I read wildly, and thus I was exposed to the world of ideas.

Michel Gondry

You need philosophy. It sounds a little pompous but I think when you direct a film, the only way to find a response to the questions you keep asking yourself is to have a philosophy.

Michel Foucault

Confession frees, but power reduces one to silence; truth does not belong to the order of power, but shares an origincal affinity with freedom: traditional themes in philosophy, which a political history of truth would have to overturn by showing that truth is not by nature free--nor error servile--but that its production is thoroughly imbued with relations of power. The confession is an example of this.

Michel Foucault

There are moments in life where the question of knowing whether one might think otherwise than one thinks and perceive otherwise than one sees is indispensable if one is to continue to observe or reflect ... What is philosophy today ... if it does not consist in, instead of legitimizing what we already know, undertaking to know how and how far it might be possible to think otherwise?

Mark Prior

The way I pitch is the way I pitch. I'm not going to change my overall philosophy. I'll just go out and pitch.

Oscar Wilde

What a silly thing love is!' said the student as he walked away. 'It is not half as useful as logic, for it does not prove anything, and it is always telling one of things that are not going to happen, and making one believe things that are not true. In fact, it is quite unpractical, and, as in this age to be practical is everything, I shall go back to philosophy and study metaphysics.' So he returned to his room and pulled out a great dusty book, and began to read.

Oscar Wilde

My philosophy? I'm always right and you are wrong.

Oscar Wilde

Philosophy is like a normal personal organizer, but it's smaller than a matchbox.

Oscar Wilde

Philosophies fall away like sand, and creeds follow on another like the withered leaves of Autumn.

Oscar Wilde

That is what the highest criticism really is, the record of one's own soul. It is more fascinating than history, as it is concerned simply with oneself. It is more delightful than philosophy, as its subject is concrete and not abstract, real and not vague. It is the only civilized form of autobiography.

Oscar Wilde

Philosophy teaches us to bear with equanimity the misfortunes of others.

Madonna Ciccone

If you have to ask for something more than once or twice, it wasn't yours in the first place. And that's hard to accept when you love someone.

Madonna Ciccone

You only see what your eyes want to see. How can life be what you want it to be?

Madonna Ciccone

I know where beauty lives, I've seen it once, I know the warmth she gives.

Madonna Ciccone

The world is not so kind, people trap your mind.

Madonna Ciccone

They're only words, unless they're true.

Madonna Ciccone

Who needs the sun, when the rain is so full of life?

Madonna Ciccone

My point of view and philosophy continues to change and grow. As the years go by you go through this evolution.

Madonna Ciccone

I ran to the forest, I ran to the trees. I ran and I ran, I was looking for me.

Madonna Ciccone

Cosmic systems intertwine, astral bodies drip like wine, all of nature ebbs and flows. Comets shoot across the sky, can't explain the reasons why, this is how creation goes.

Louis Kronenberger

From the failure of the humanist tradition to participate fully or to act decisively, civilizations may perhaps crumble or perish at the hands of barbarians. But unless the humanist tradition itself in some form survives, there can really be no civilization at all.

Louis-Ferdinand Celine

To philosophize is only another way of being afraid and leads hardly anywhere but to cowardly make-believe.

Lorrie Moore

Basically, I realized I was living in that awful stage of life between twenty-six to and thirty-seven known as stupidity. It's when you don't know anything, not even as much as you did when you were younger, and you don't even have a philosophy about all the things you don't know, the way you did when you were twenty or would again when you were thirty-eight.

Michael Crichton

Nobody dares to solve the problems-because the solution might contradict your philosophy, and for most people clinging to beliefs is more important than succeeding in the world.

Michael Crichton

The purpose of life is to stay alive. Watch any animal in nature--all it tries to do is stay alive. It doesn't care about beliefs or philosophy. Whenever any animal's behavior puts it out of touch with the realities of its existence, it becomes exinct.

Michel de Montaigne

Seeing that the Senses cannot decide our dispute, being themselves full of uncertainty, we must have recourse to Reason; there is no reason but must be built upon another reason: so here we are retreating backwards to infinity.

Michel de Montaigne

Wonder is the foundation of all philosophy, inquiry the progress, ignorance the end.

Michel de Montaigne

And truly Philosophy is but sophisticated poetry. Whence do those ancient writers derive all their authority but from the poets?

Michel de Montaigne

Those sciences which govern the morals of mankind, such as Theology and Philosophy, make everything their concern: no activity is so private or so secret as to escape their attention or their jurisdiction.

Michel de Montaigne

Now, since our condition accommodates things to itself, and transforms them according to itself, we no longer know things in their reality; for nothing comes to us that is not altered and falsified by our Senses. When the compass, the square, and the rule are untrue, all the calculations drawn from them, all the buildings erected by their measure, are of necessity also defective and out of plumb. The uncertainty of our senses renders uncertain everything that they produce.

Michel de Montaigne

Of the opinions of philosophy I most gladly embrace those that are most solid, that is to say, most human and most our own; my opinions, in conformity with my conduct, are low and humble.

Michael Schudson

It should be apparent that the belief in objectivity in journalism, as in other professions, is not just a claim about what kind of knowledge is reliable. It is also a moral philosophy, a declaration of what kind of thinking one should engage in, in making moral decisions. It is, moreover, a political commitment, for it provides a guide to what groups one should acknowledge as relevant audiences for judging one's own thoughts and acts.

Michael Savage

Extreme liberalism is not a political philosophy. It is a mental disorder.