Quotes About Philosophy

I realized that conservatism was the philosophy that best suited me, with its emphasis on individual liberty, personal responsibility, and merit.

Ralph also took some classes in philosophy and literature and felt himself on the brink of some kind of huge discovery about himself. But it never came.

Zen professes itself to be the spirit of Buddhism, but in fact it is the spirit of all religions and philosophies.

Isn't it strange that ... people build walls to keep an enemy out, and there's only one part of the world and one philosophy where they have to build walls to keep their people in

Any person can achieve greatness if they understand the philosophy of success and the steps required to achieve it.

Geometry will draw the soul toward truth and create the spirit of philosophy.

Philosophy begins with the understanding that you cannot just observe or experience and then report what you see, because how you conceptualize and symbolize alters experience.

Philosophy itself cannot but benefit from our disputes, for if our conceptions prove true, new achievements will be made; if false, their refutation will further confirm the original doctrines.

True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.

My philosophy is I'm raising future adults, not children.

The unexamined life is not worth living for a human being.

There is a desire deep within the soul which drives man from the seen to the unseen, to philosophy and to the divine.

Philosophy leads to death, sociology leads to suicide.

I had to philosophize. Otherwise, I could not live in this world.

In my view all salvation for philosophy may be expected to come from Darwin's theory

Christianity is not a theory or speculation, but a life; not a philosophy of life, but a life and a living process.

Someone asked me once what my philosophy of life was, and I said some crazy thing. I should have said, how the hell do I know?

Philosophy must never be divorced from action. Unless it is put into practice, philosophy is nothing more than an intellectual game.

I preferred the weapons of dialectic to all the other teachings of philosophy, and armed with these, I chose the conflicts of disputation rather than the trophies of war.

Life's philosophy, hm... I just say, 'Do what you do and have fun doing it and try not to be too miserable.'

Who am I, why am I here? Forget the question, someone give me another beer.

I have done my best. That is about all the philosophy of living one needs.

My cloud photographs are equivalents of my most profound life experiences, my basic philosophy of life. All art is an equivalent of the artist's most profound life experiences.

Apart from the known and the unknown, what else is there?