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I'm a layperson. I barely got out of high school. I have no business telling people what to do or my big philosophy on life. I'm certainly not going to write any sort of memoir.

At the heart of the Irish economy has always been the philosophy of tax competitiveness. On the cranky left, that is very annoying; I can see that.

Most men have a good memory for facts connected with their own pursuits.

A pipe is a pocket philosopher,--a truer one than Socrates, for it never asks questions. Socrates must have been very tiresome, when one thinks of it.

To ask whether the natural rights philosophy of the Declaration of Independence is true or false, is essentially a meaningless question.

That Hegel is a metaphysician, and that he thinks metaphysics is fundamental to philosophy, is plain enough from his definition of philosophy.

His second cycle of teachings discusses the cosmology of the universes. But in his later years, he wrote the tantric texts.

Philosophy seems to me on the whole a rather hopeless business.

Philosophy is by the timid for the timid.

I was not looking for a sitcom, because the philosophy at that point was that you had to make a choice: Were you going to do movies or TV? You couldn't cross over.

A man of business may talk of philosophy; a man who has none may practice it.

To me this technical acceptation seems not applicable here, where we have to deal with the simplest moral precepts, and not with psychological niceties of Buddhist philosophy.

It requires philosophy and heroism to rise above the opinion of the wise men of all nations and races.

I was a poet animated by philosophy, not a philosopher with poetic faculties.

I have no personal system of philosophy. I never attempt to do that. I am merely a man of letters.

Socrates condemned art because he preferred philosophy and only after much internal struggle did Plato accept this judgment.

In a political context of the utmost significance, ["freedom from fear"] recognizes a human right which, in a broad sense, may be said to sum up the whole philosophy of human rights.

The world was to Shakespeare a great stage of fools on which he was utterly bewildered. His pregnant observations of life are not coordinated into any philosophy.

We think of history as another specialization, like philosophy of language, rather than as something that informs everything we do and think.

Folks know that while I respect Barack Obama and do not cheap-shot the president, I am very skeptical of his big government, nanny-state philosophy.

It was my first meeting with a philosophy that confirmed my vague speculations and seemed at once logical and boundless.

If historians of philosophy are to be divided into those who focus on discontinuities and those who focus on continuities, I belong in the latter camp.

Adversity's sweet milk philosophy.

Philosophy, that leaned on Heaven before, Shrinks to her second cause, and is no more.