Quotes About Philosophy

Far from being demeaning to human spiritual values, scientific rationalism is the crowning glory of the human spirit.

When we began Starbucks, what I wanted to try to do was to create a set of values, guiding principles, and culture.

Reason cannot establish values, and its belief that it can is the stupidiest and most pernicious illusion.

Historically, China is not a nation of sportsmen. We traditionally put more emphasis on being close to nature than pushing endlessly to excel. A philosophy that values tranquil contemplation of the landscape cannot easily be adapted to the Olympic slogan of 'higher, stronger, faster.'

The present age has seen a great slump in humanist values.

People say values are expensive, but I say they create economic value.

Students should learn about the long-standing values of truth, beauty, and goodness, think hard about them, and interrogate them skillfully.

First, he must hold rational values, and to do this he must be a thinker.

Which was why the Sadducees in particular were so infuriated with this sect, Ezra realized. The Sadducees were convinced the afterlife did not exist at all. Man lived, man died. The candle was snuffed out. Finished. A very Greek philosophy, it was one that found favor only with the highly educated, the rich, the well traveled. The average Judean despised the Sadducees for this and for how they had allied themselves with the Romans.

A central theme was recognizing what is in your control and what isn't—and acting on the one and ignoring the other. It's a philosophy that has resonated over the centuries. Reading

Thinking over this thought, this whole thinking makes no sense.

Even having to water flowers is too much constraint.

One can't merely content oneself with identifying proximate causes; one also has to ask about ultimate causes.

the measure of a person was her ideas

Marxism claims, above all, to be a 'scientific' philosophy, one which applies the principles of science to politics and society.

Yes, and imagine a world where there were no hypothetical situations.

Scientific thought - indeed, any mode of thought, whether it be religious or philosophical or anything else - is just like the fashions that we wear - only much longer lived. It's a little like a boy band.

All the great unanswered questions of the world will be answered. Who are we? What are we here for? Where will we end up? And most important of all: Can mankind actually get any stupider?

There are two schools of thought about the resilience of time. The first is that time is highly volatile, with every small event altering the possible outcome of the earth's future. The other view is that time is rigid, and no matter how hard you try, it will always spring back toward a determined present. Myself, I do not worry about such trivialities. I simply sell ties to anyone who wants to buy one...

For myself, I favored the abstract. I collected not just obsolete terms and words, but ideas.

Hamlet would worry about having nothing to worry about if he had nothing to worry about

Death cannot be avoided forever, but it can be postponed - in that respect it's very like the washing up.

Those that can be troubled to muse upon the meaning of life are generally disappointed when they figure it out.

Remember, Thursday, that scientific thought – indeed, any mode of thought, whether it be religious or philosophical or anything else – is just like the fashions that we wear – only much longer lived. It's a little like a boy band.