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Quotes About Philosophy

Our faith is stronger than death, our philosophy is firmer than flesh, and the spread of the Kingdom of God upon the earth is more sublime and more compelling.
~ Dorothy Day
My philosophy towards life is to enjoy it to the fullest and have fun. I am one of those 'laugh-out-loud' kinds. I am quirky, yet witty.
~ Bipasha Basu
I rather doubt that life has a meaning. If I thought perhaps it did, and I wanted to find out what its meaning is, I don't imagine I'd ask someone whose credentials consist of a PhD in philosophy.
~ Jerry Fodor
The cause of laughter is simply the sudden perception of the incongruity between a concept and the real project.
~ Arthur Schopenhauer
Philosophy does not exist. It is nothing but an hypostatized abstraction.
~ R. D. Laing
The true function of philosophy is to educate us in the principles of reasoning and not to put an end to further reasoning by the introduction of fixed conclusions.
~ George Henry Lewes
Medicine rests upon four pillars - philosophy, astronomy, alchemy, and ethics.
~ Paracelsus
We live in the best of all possible worlds
~ Gottfried Leibniz
There are two conflicting philosophies that I love: "Everything happens for a reason," as well as "you can change everything that you have control over."
~ Yara Shahidi
I Should Just Stop Tweeting, The Human Consciousness Must Raise Before I Speak My Juvenile Philosophy.
~ Jaden Smith
You know, you have to have some inner philosophy to deal with adversity.
~ Kirk Douglas
A vulgar man, in any ill that happens to him, blames others; a novice in philosophy blames himself; and a philosopher blames neither, the one nor the other.
~ Epictetus
A novel is never anything, but a philosophy put into images.
~ Jim Rohn
Ancient philosophy proposed to mankind an art of living. By contrast, modern philosophy appears above all as the construction of a technical jargon reserved for specialists.
~ Pierre Hadot
The notion that human life is sacred just because it is human life is medieval.
~ Peter Singer
All philosophies are mental fabrications. There has never been a single doctrine by which one could enter the true essence of things.
~ Akkineni Nagarjuna
There is no heresy or no philosophy which is so abhorrent to the church as a human being.
~ James Joyce
How charming is divine philosophy! Not harsh and crabbed, as dull fools suppose, But musical as is Apollo's lute, And a perpetual feast of nectar'd sweets Where no crude surfeit reigns
~ John Milton
My personal philosophy would be don't whine, don't let opportunities pass you by, be willing to work hard, and remember that you don't know as much as you think you do, ever
~ James Marsters
Philosophy means nothing unless it is connected to birth, death, and the continuance of life. Anytime you are going to build a society that works, you have to begin from nature and the body.
~ Susan Griffin
Superstition sets the whole world in flames, but philosophy douses them.
~ Voltaire
I don't master my craft or my style enough to have any philosophy or dogma to which I feel I belong.
~ Xavier Dolan
A philosophy can only be a route to knowledge. It cannot be knowledge crammed down one's throat. If one has a route, he can then find what is true for him. And that is Scientology.
~ L. Ron Hubbard
My philosophy is never start talking about 'if,' 'and,' 'but' or the past, because 90 percent of what follows will be negative.
~ Gordie Howe