Quotes about philosophy
philosophy discipline trying
To overturn orthodoxy is no easier in science than in philosophy, religion, economics, or any of the other disciplines through which we try to comprehend the world and the society in which we live.
philosophy soul wake-up
Once you've fallen from classical virtue, won't have a soul for to wake up and hold you. Rufus Wainwright
philosophy believe choices
Time to go inward would you believe that I'm afraid to stare down the barrel of choices I have made. Rodney Crowell
philosophy past lasts
There's nothing in the future and there's nothing in the past. There is only this one moment, and you've got to make it last. Robyn Hitchcock
philosophy drawing fire
I have heard a good story of Charles Fox. When his house was on fire, he found all efforts to save it useless, and, being a good draughtsman, he went up to the next hill to make a drawing of the fire,--the best instance of philosophy I ever heard of. Robert Southey
philosophy oblivion crave
You can't be saved, oblivion is all you crave. Robert Palmer
philosophy personal-philosophy
My personal philosophy is, you can be sure of nothing. Robert M. Parker, Jr.
philosophy games
I suppose philosophy is historically not a woman's game, though that is changing. Robert M. Pirsig
philosophy writing talking
I chose philosophy because it sounded like something I ought to be interested in. I didn't know anything about it, I didn't even know what it was talking about. What I really spent my time doing in those years was writing short stories. There were all sorts of interesting courses, but what I really wanted to do was make stories one way or another. Wes Anderson
philosophy race organization
La Raza stands for 'The Race' - and they say so openly. They are a pro-Hispanic organization; I will call them a racist organization. They base their philosophy on race. They advocate for those minorities that fit within the category that they define as drives them. They are apologists for illegal immigrants - and we are funding them with your tax dollars in this administration through earmarks. It is outrageous. It's an in-your-face act on the part of this Congress. Steve King
philosophy certainty deals
Religion deals in certainties and philosophy deals more in un-answered questions. Steve Hackett
philosophy years listening
When I got to Princeton I made a point of attending the Philosophy Club and listening to the lectures, but I didn't get involved in any discussions in those clubs. I guess after the first year, I dropped that.
philosophy splits mathematics
I went to Princeton from Amherst, where I split my interests between mathematics and philosophy.
philosophy philosophical able
I had some hesitations about philosophy because, if you worked out a philosophical theory, it was hard to know whether you were going to be able to prove it or whether other theories had just as good a claim on belief.
philosophy character achievement
The most effective way I know to begin with the end in mind is to develop a personal mission statement or philosophy or creed. It focused on what you want to be (character) and to do (contributions and achievements) and on the values or principles upon which being and doing are based. Stephen Covey
philosophy loyal seven-days
My philosophy is if you're going to work 24 hours a day, seven days a week, for not a whole lot of money, why work for someone you're not gonna be loyal to? Stephanie Cutter
philosophy thinking mentor
A sound philosophy of life, I think, may be the most valuable asset for a psychiatrist to have when he is treating a patient. Viktor E. Frankl
philosophy moving eye
You know, bicycling isn't just a matter of balance," I said. "it's a matter of faith. You can keep upright only by moving forward. You have to have your eyes on the goal, not the ground. I'm going to call that the Bicyclist's Philosophy of Life. Susan Vreeland
philosophy law goal
Because ethics is fundamentally about questioning the ends, the goals and aims of our actions, we must come back to the rules and ask why. So we must return to the philosophy of law, the raison d'etre and the point of what we're asked to do. It's not easy, it's very demanding and it needs intellectual courage. Tariq Ramadan
philosophy different culture
There is the philosophy embedded in the culture we are living. It is quite clear for example that Arabs have a different culture than Malaysians.
philosophy greek islam
Greek philosophy departs from the assumption that we can understand the world autonomously using our rational faculties. Islam is not saying this.
philosophy theory experiments
It is an acknowledged truth in philosophy that a just theory will always be confirmed by experiment. Thomas Malthus
philosophy fall agency
It accords with the most liberal spirit of philosophy to suppose that not a stone can fall, or a plant rise, without the immediate agency of divine power.
philosophy wine eye
If I saw a glass of wine repeatedly presented to a man, and he took no notice of it, I should be apt to think that he was blind or uncivil. A juster philosophy might teach me rather to think that my eyes deceived me, and that the offer was not really what I conceived it to be.
philosophy firsts theory
The first business of philosophy is to account for things as they are; and till our theories will do this, they ought not to be the ground of any practical conclusion.
philosophy philosophical love-is
The question of love is one that cannot be evaded. Whether or not you claim to be interested in it from the moment you are alive you are bound to be concerned with love because love is not just something that happens to you: It is a certain special way of being alive. Love is in fact an intensification of life a completeness a fullness a wholeness of life. Thomas Merton
philosophy teaching
History is philosophy teaching by experience. Thomas Carlyle
philosophy teach readiness
Before philosophy can teach by Experience, the Philosophy has to be in readiness, the Experience must be gathered and intelligibly recorded.
philosophy lying men
Why multiply instances? It is written, the Heavens and the Earth shall fade away like a Vesture; which indeed they are: the Time-vesture of the Eternal. Whatsoever sensibly exists, whatsoever represents Spirit to Spirit, is properly a Clothing, a suit of Raiment, put on for a season, and to be laid off. Thus in this one pregnant subject of CLOTHES, rightly understood, is included all that men have thought, dreamed, done, and been: the whole External Universe and what it holds is but Clothing; and the essence of all Science lies in the PHILOSOPHY OF CLOTHES.
philosophy eye looks
Rightly viewed no meanest object is insignificant; all objects are as windows through which the philosophic eye looks into infinitude itself.
philosophy battle customs
What is philosophy but a continual battle against custom?
philosophy men long
Philosophy dwells aloft in the Temple of Science, the divinity of its inmost shrine; her dictates descend among men, but she herself descends not : whoso would behold her must climb with long and laborious effort, nay, still linger in the forecourt, till manifold trial have proved him worthy of admission into the interior solemnities.
philosophy heaven deeds
Oh, Heaven, it is mysterious, it is awful to consider that we not only carry a future Ghost within us; but are, in very deed, Ghosts!