Quotes About Philosophy

Adam and Eve are like imaginary numbers, like the square root of minus one... If you include it in your equation, you can calculate all manners of things, which cannot be imagined without it.

My whole business philosophy is based on a risk-reward ratio. But it's got to stack up. If it doesn't, don't do it. You might as well go to a casino.

It was lucky I came from City; I'd say their philosophy is quite similar. Barcelona are a lot more advanced because they are the ones who created it, but they have a history of members of staff at Manchester City who worked here.

Postwar Europe was morally stagnant, and there was a lot of neo-conservatism.

Never must the existence or the essence of man as a whole be made a stake in the hazards of action.

If there is an art of living, it is not something that can be taught timelessly. We have lessons to learn from Aristotle et al, for sure, but not if we simply uproot them from their epoch and stamp them into 21st-century soil.

Of all Americans who have appeared on the nation's postage stamps, Ayn Rand is probably the only one to have thought that the United States government has no business delivering mail.

What people are really after is, what is my stance on religion or spirituality or God? And I would say, if I find a word that came closest, it would be agnostic.

Straight edge came out of the hardcore scene. I don't necessarily believe, as some people believe, that you have to be a part of the hardcore scene to share that philosophy and stance against recreational drug use. But it is where it came from, and it is where it influenced me to be a part of it.

I went through the standard scientific atheist phase when I was about 14. I bought into that package deal of science equals atheism.

I have a kind of standard explanation why, which goes like this: Science fiction is one way of making sense out of a senseless world.

Life is a question without a standard answer.

The repudiation of the primacy of understanding means the repudiation of the norms of judgment as well, and hence the abandonment of all ethical standards.

In-N-Out Burger has a well-known and long standing reputation as a corporation that is operated with a Christian message and philosophy.

That's the philosophy that we have always had. Going and playing in front of people and leaving an impressive from that standpoint.

No other question has ever moved so profoundly the spirit of man; no other idea has so fruitfully stimulated his intellect; yet no other concept stands in greater need of clarification than that of the infinite.

National Socialism stands or falls by its Weltanschauung.

To a good man nothing that happens is evil.

No one knows whether death is really the greatest blessing a man can have, but they fear it is the greatest curse, as if they knew well.

As to methods, there may be a million and then some, but principles are few. The man who grasps principles can successfully select his own methods.

The wise man seeks death all his life, and for this reason death is not terrifying to him.

Most men seem to live according to sense rather than reason.

Every sensible man, every honorable man, must hold the Christian sect in horror.

Darwinian man, though well-behaved, at best is only a monkey shaved.