Quotes About Philosophy

History should be written as philosophy.

Art requires philosophy, just as philosophy requires art. Otherwise, what would become of beauty?

We all agree that pessimism is a mark of superior intellect.

People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind.

People look for morals in fiction because there has always been a confusion between fiction and philosophy.

The love of all-inclusiveness is as dangerous in philosophy as in art.

In fact, philosophy is universal in scope. No man can live without a world view; therefore, there is no man who is not a philosopher.

Initially, I studied philosophy, because it claimed to give you answers to the meaning of existence, but it didnt: It was basically a semantics game.

The band has a liberal philosophy - that's sort of a given.

Philosophy can't build bridges, but can encourage people to cross them.

I am interested in study, reflection, philosophy - but always as a dilettante. I also consider myself a dilettante as a painter.

Science was born as a result and consequence of philosophy; it cannot survive without a philosophical base. If philosophy perishes, science will be next to go.

A man is a god in ruins.

If you do not love yourself, well, you cannot do anything well, that's my philosophy.

Philosophy is such an impertinently litigious lady that a man had as good be engaged in lawsuits as have to do with her.

I went off to college planning to major in math or philosophy-- of course, both those ideas are really the same idea.

There follows a little obscenity here, a dash of philosophy there, considerable whining overall, and a modern satirical novel is born.

All the progress we have made in philosophy ... is the result of that methodical skepticism which is the element of human freedom.

Philosophy ... must not bargain away anything of the emphatic concept of truth.

It is one of the consolations of philosophy that the benefit of showing how to dispense with a concept does not hinge on dispensing with it.

Philosophy... is the creative perception by the spirit of the meaning of human existence.

I live by the philosophy that beauty starts from within, and I make a conscious effort to fill my body with nutrients through the food I eat.

Philosophy is an elegant thing, if anyone modestly meddles with it; but if they are conversant with it more than is becoming, it corrupts them.

The creative mind is the playful mind. Philosophy is the play and dance of ideas.