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Quotes About Philosophy

At the core of liberalism is the spoiled child — miserable, as all spoiled children are, unsatisfied, demanding, ill-disciplined, despotic and useless. Liberalism is a philosophy of sniveling brats.
~ P. J. O'Rourke
Bruce Lee was very famous. I watched his movies and he is amazing. He is a martial arts master, his philosophy, his movement, both physically and mentally, were very strong.
~ Jet Li
After the first exams, I switched to the Faculty of Philosophy and studied Zoology in Munich and Vienna.
~ Karl von Frisch
Remain true to yourself and your philosophy. Changing in the face of adversity will in fact diminish your credibility with your customers.
~ Giorgio Armani
As a system of philosophy it is not like the Tower of Babel, so daring its high aim as to seek a shelter against God's anger; but it is like a pyramid poised on its apex.
~ Adam Sedgwick
Not how the world is, but that it is, is the mystery.
~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
In Hungary, acting is a career for which one fits himself as earnestly as one studies for a degree in medicine, law, or philosophy.
~ Bela Lugosi
You can't do without philosophy, since everything has its hidden meaning which we must know.
~ Maxim Gorky
I look upon Phrenology as the guide to philosophy and the handmaid of Christianity. Whoever disseminates true Phrenology is a public benefactor.
~ Horace Mann
Rock is a great master of life. It teaches us this simple philosophy: Stay firm!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Golf is 20 percent mechanics and technique. The other 80 pecent is philosophy, humor, tragedy, romance, melodrama, companionship, camaraderie, cussedness and conversation.
~ Grantland Rice
Philosophers should be, as Seneca put it, 'lawyers for humanity'. Make what you think and feel count; the examined life has global dimensions.
~ Martha C. Nussbaum
POSITIVISM- A philosophy that denies our knowledge of the Real and affirms our ignorance of the Apparent. Its longest exponent is Comte, its broadest Mill and its thickest Spencer.
~ Ambrose Bierce
Philosophy begins in wonder. And, at the end, when philosophic thought has done its best, the wonder remains.
~ Alfred North Whitehead
Philosophy is transcendental homelessness; it is the urge to be at home everywhere
~ Gyorgy Lukacs
By philosophy the mind of man comes to itself, and from henceforth rests on itself without foreign aid, and is completely master of itself, as the dancer of his feet, or the boxer of his hands.
~ Johann Gottlieb Fichte
Pessimism is an emotion not a philosophy.
~ Immortal Technique
Our imagination is struck only by what is great; but the lover of natural philosophy should reflect equally on little things.
~ Alexander von Humboldt
PLATONIC, adj. Pertaining to the philosophy of Socrates. Platonic Love is a fool's name for the affection between a disability and a frost.
~ Ambrose Bierce
What sort of philosophy one chooses depends on what sort of person one is.
~ Johann Gottlieb Fichte
The philosophy of the rich and the poor is this: the rich invest their money and spend what is left. The poor spend their money and invest what is left.
~ Robert Kiyosaki
It's always been my philosophy to try to make art out of the everyday and ordinary...it never occurred to me to leave home to make art.
~ Sally Mann
I think we ought always to entertain our opinions with some measure of doubt. I shouldn't wish people dogmatically to believe any philosophy, not even mine.
~ Bertrand Russell
Humanism involves far more than the negation of supernaturalism. It requires an affirmative philosophy . . . translated into a life devoted to one's own improvement and the service of all mankind.
~ Corliss Lamont