Quotes About Philosophy

Discontent is the seed of ethics.

Any philosophy that can be put in a nutshell belongs there.

It is as absurd to expect members of philosophy departments to be philosophers as it is to expect members of art departments to be artists.

The province of philosophy is not so much to prevent calamities befalling as to demonstrate that they are blessings when they have taken place.

We want today that bright sun of intellectuality joined with the heart of Buddha, the wonderful infinite heart of love and mercy. This union will give us the highest philosophy.

Anarchism as a political philosophy seeks to dissolve all forms of authority and power, and if possible, wishes their complete abolition.

You always really have to remain consistent in your beliefs and philosophy.

The only sacred cow is an organisation should be its basic philosophy of doing business.

Materialism is the philosophy of the subject who forgets to take account of himself.

Tiger got to hunt, bird got to fly; Man got to sit and wonder 'why, why, why?' Tiger got to sleep, bird got to land; Man got to tell himself he understand.

Politically, the goal of today's dominant trend is statism. Philosophically, the goal is the obliteration of reason; psychologically, it is the erosion of ambition.

Your music has been a powerful vehicle for your philosophies.

No school of philosophy has ever solved this question of whether being determines consciousness or the other way around. It may be a false antithesis.

Philosophy has a great sort of appeal in terms of an artistic or aesthetic organization of concepts. It's a conceptual art.

The courage of the truth is the first condition of philosophic study.

Adopt a new philosophy of cooperation (win-win) in which everybody wins.

Without man and his potential for moral progress, the whole of reality would be a mere wilderness, a thing in vain, and have no final purpose.

Philosophy when superficially studied, excites doubt, when thoroughly explored, it dispels it.

Without the communist oppression, I am absolutely sure I would now be a local stupid professor of philosophy in Ljubljana.

The trouble was that he was talking in philosophy but they were listening in gibberish.

Philosophy is common sense with big words.

Tell me what a person finds sexually attractive and I will tell you their entire philosophy of life. Show me the person they sleep with and I will tell you their valuation of themselves.

I like the philosophy of the sandwich, as it were. It typifies my attitude to life, really. It's all there, it's fun, it looks good, and you don't have to wash up afterwards.

Men are not allowed to think freely about chemistry and biology: why should they be allowed to think freely about political philosophy?