Famous Quotes & Sayings

Michael Sandel

I almost became a political journalist, having worked as a reporter at the time of Watergate. The proximity to those events motivated me, when I wound up doing philosophy, to try to use it to move the public debate.

Karl Marx

Philosophy is to the real world as masturbation is to sex

Jerry Reed

When you're hot your hot, when you're not your not.

Jeffrey Eugenides

Jacques Derrida is a very important thinker and philosopher who has made serious contributions to both philosophy and literary criticism. Roland Barthes is the one I feel most affinity for, and Michel Foucault, well, his writing influenced my novel, 'Middlesex.'

Jeff Koons

I'm interested in power. I'm interested in the kind of polarities and equilibriums that take place within sexuality and philosophy and sociology. So in Versailles, in this type of setting, you have a place that is about absolute control, where everything has been thought about.

Jennifer Lee

The philosophy I always have is what's the sentence that would tell me about each shot. If I can't read why the shot's there, what is the story trying to say?

Jennifer Lopez

Ain't it funny how a moment could just change your life, and you don't want to face what's wrong or right. Ain't it strange how fate can play a part, in the story of your heart.

Jennifer Lopez

I know that there is a force in the world and an energy that you can put out, and when you put out love it comes back to you. I think that's my basic philosophy.

Jennifer Lopez

My philosophy on life is that we're here to love and to learn. And I've learned a lot, so I can't say "I wish this didn't happen or I didn't make that movie." And I take responsibility for being open [about relationships] in the past. I have to, and now I'm doing what I can to make it different.

Jeffrey Toobin

It's always interesting to see what judges do when their legal philosophy conflicts with their political views.

Jeffrey Sachs

Roosevelt talked not only about Freedom from Fear, but also Freedom from Want.

James Buchan

The truth is, of course, that history is not completed in modern commerce any more than philosophy is perfected in political economy. In other words, there is nothing timeless or God-given about filling stations and penicillin and plastic bags.

James Cameron

Here's my philosophy in life: If there's a fire, you put it out. If there's a flood, you fill sandbags and you build a dike. You roll up your sleeves and you get to work.

James A. Garfield

History is philosophy teaching by example, and also warning; its two eyes are geography and chronology.

Jacques Santer

I don't attach importance to great speeches or philosophy.

Jaden Smith

I Should Just Stop Tweeting, The Human Consciousness Must Raise Before I Speak My Juvenile Philosophy.

Jacqueline Carey

All paths are present, always... and we can but choose among them.

Jacqueline Carey

All knowledge is worth having

Jackson Browne

Lighten up while you still can, don't even try to understand. Just find a place to make your stand, and take it easy.

Christopher Isherwood

We must remember that nothing in this world really belongs to us. At best, we are merely borrowers.

Christopher Hitchens

One of the great questions of philosophy is, do we innately have morality, or do we get it from celestial dictation? A study of the Ten Commandments is a very good way of getting into and resolving that issue.

Christopher Hitchens

No school of philosophy has ever solved this question of whether being determines consciousness or the other way around. It may be a false antithesis.

George Harrison

Love, come and get it, it's free.

George Harrison

My life belongs to me, my love belongs to those who can see it.

George Harrison

The action that I've started, sometime I'll have to face. My influence in motion, rebounding back through space.

George Harrison

There's a bottomless heart hooked into all of you and it's wondering how much you care.

Gary Wright

My music and lyrics became an extension of this Indian philosophy.

Gary Snyder

Three-fourths of philosophy and literature is the talk of people trying to convince themselves that they really like the cage they were tricked into entering.

Gaston Bachelard

Two half philosophers will probably never a whole metaphysician make.

Gaston Bachelard

The philosophy of poetry must acknowledge that the poetic act has no past, at least no recent past, in which its preparation and appearance could be followed.

Gary Vaynerchuk

Know the philosophy, know the details, and ignore everything in the middle.

Gary Zukav

The development of physics in the twentieth century already has transformed the consciousness of those involved with it. The study (of modern physics) produces insights into the nature of reality very similar to those produced by the study of eastern philosophy.

Herbert Read

Nobody seriously believes in the social philosophies of the immediate past.