Quotes About Philosophy

The Sea Will be the Sea Whatever the drop's philosophy.

A bottle of wine contains more philosophy than all the books in the world.

My driving philosophy about making music is that you can reduce it all down to one note if that note is played with the right kind of sincerity.

I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.

The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.

Hope is the only good that is common to all men; those who have nothing else possess hope still.

I've tried Buddhism, Scientology, Numerology, Transcendental Meditation, Qabbala, t'ai chi, feng shui and Deepak Chopra but I find straight gin works best.

Let us think the unthinkable, let us do the undoable, let us prepare to grapple with the ineffable itself, and see if we may not eff it after all.

When we are tired, we are attacked by ideas we conquered long ago.

In a philosophical dispute, he gains most who is defeated, since he learns most.

I don't believe in quotas. America was founded on a philosophy of individual rights, not group rights.

A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.

Philosophy is, in the last instance, class struggle in the field of theory.

The Study of philosophy is not that we may know what men have thought, but what the truth of things is.

Learning does not make one learned: there are those who have knowledge and those who have understanding. The first requires memory and the second philosophy

Every present state of a simple substance is the natural consequence of its preceding state, in such a way that its present is big with its future.

Hey, you wanna hear my philosophy of life? Do it to him before he does it to you.

Real misanthropes are not found in solitude, but in the world; since it is experience of life, and not philosophy, which produces real hatred of mankind.

Those who lack the courage will always find a philosophy to justify it.

That's the interesting thing about the philosophy — to accomplish the grand, you have to focus on the small. To exist in the eternal perspective, you have to live in the moment.

Extreme liberalism is not a political philosophy. It is a mental disorder.

Moral relativism has a reputation for being compassionate, caring and humane, but it is an extremely useful philosophy for tyrants.

Nihilism has no substance. There is no such thing as nothingness, and zero does not exist. Everything is something. Nothing is nothing.

Self-taught poverty is a help toward philosophy, for the things which philosophy attempts to teach by reasoning, poverty forces us to practice.