Quotes About Philosophy

A country, a style or an epoch are interesting only for the idea behind them.

All managers have a different playing style and football philosophy. What's important for players is being able adapt to those different styles.

Bruce Lee loved all different styles of martial arts. He believed that you shouldn't limit yourself to one style, because martial arts is just another form of human expression.

Every stylish man should have a copy of 'The Fountainhead' by Ayn Rand on his bookshelf.

Just because a subject is serious doesn't mean it doesn't have plenty of absurdities.

Philosophic meditation is an accomplishment by which I attain Being and my own self, not impartial thinking which studies a subject with indifference.

Death is not my best subject.

But I owe it to the subject to say, that it has long afforded me what philosophy is so often thought, and made, barren of - the fun of discovery, the pleasures of co-operation, and the satisfaction of reaching agreement.

As the ego cogito, subjectivity is the consciousness that represents something, relates this representation back to itself, and so gathers with itself.

Philosophy is best practised by people in general and not by philosophers alone. Philosophy is too often a luxury now, but in ancient Greece, carpenters, masons and beggars were the main practitioners. What I am trying to develop is a philosophical system where all the subjects can be taught.

I don't pretend to be an astrophysicist or anything, even though I do read about certain things like metaphysics and cosmology that I've always just been really interested in. I don't pretend to be able to sit down and pontificate on any of these subjects.

I am one who believes that the world goes from the slime to the sublime. And you can take Darwin and all your philosophers and all your ontologists, and that's the direction.

The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living, which are to be desired when dying.

I don't subscribe to any particular doctrine or ideology. I just think that there's kind of a good and bad, the good being life in its purest, happiest form, and the other being the darker side of existence.

Socrates gave a lifetime to the outpouring of his substance in the shape of the greatest benefits bestowed on all who cared to receive them. In other words, he made those who lived in his society better men and sent them on their way rejoicing.

Man's shortcomings and sins are all due to substance of the body and not to its form, while all his merits are exclusively due to his form.

Substance must itself be said of the modes and only of the modes.

God should not be called an individual substance, since the principal of individuation is matter.

Einstein said, if everything exists as a substance of qualities, and qualities exist only in mind, then all is mind.

If I could sew comedy and philosophy together, then I've done a good job. The primary goal is always going to be laughs and the secondary goal is always going to be saying something without it being a lecture. I think it's important to have substance for what you're saying.

I maintain also that substances, whether material or immaterial, cannot be conceived in their bare essence without any activity, activity being of the essence of substance in general.

But in simple substances the influence of one monad over another is ideal only.

In much of computer science, I can easily 'auto-grade' your work and give you an instant meaningful feedback. I can't do this when it comes to the subtlety of human thought, language, poetry, philosophy.

You subtract Christianity from Huston Smith, and there is no Huston Smith left.