Quotes About Philosophy

I am much more radical in my beliefs than my products represent me to be.

I think I represent a more left-wing view of what jazz is.

'Dreamsongs' allows me to show the scope of my writing - with personal commentary that puts the works in context and includes some autobiographical details intended to reveal how each piece came to be, what it represents, and how it has formed, or been informed by, my philosophy of writing.

If we truly value humanity, life, and all that it represents in its highest form, then we need to do all that we can to promote quality of life over the quantity of life.

I continue to take inspiration from John Locke, John Stuart Mill and those more recent freedom fighters of the 1960s who challenged conformism and repression.

The gospel is not a philosophy of repression, as so many regard it. It is a plan of freedom that gives discipline to appetite and direction to behavior.

The first book I ever really read was Plato's 'Republic,' and then I had to go over that five times or something.

I was reading Plato's 'The Republic' at age 18, and I can't account fully the electricity that had for me.

I don't like to define myself as necessarily conservative. What is it to be a conservative? What is it to be a Republican, even?

I don't think Keynesian Monetarism has to be Democrat or Republican.

It is not about Republicanism, it's about conservatism.

You know, Republicans should have a consistent philosophy. And if your philosophy is about limited government and not intruding in people's lives, you shouldn't just inconveniently take a social issue like gay marriage and say, 'Well, unless we think - actually we should be intruding your life.'

I pretty much eat when I'm hungry, and I don't eat when I'm not hungry. That is my best philosophy for maintaining my weight.

And do you accept the idea that there is no explanation?

That's why I'm grumpy all the time. Absolutely. Because your ideal never happens. Nothing ever goes right. But the thing about getting older is that you do accept it.

I don't think or write from big ideals.

People don't care about books. They care about ideas.

I, myself, identify myself as a heathen.

The thing that I have a horror of is ideological theatre - Shakespeare never told us how to think.

My mother has brought me up in a manner that has allowed me to retain my values, ideologies, and philosophies. I was let loose, just enough to develop an individual personality.

Great ideology creates great times.

I started out in the Chabad movement, and I started pretty closed up, with the idea of there being that 'this is it.' I bought into that fully. I really explored in depth the Chabad ideology.

Ideology has consequences.

How can you be an atheist and have an ideology to go with it? To be an atheist is to be free of some areas of belief. I don't see how that can become an ideology.