Quotes About Philosophy

I think that's a weak excuse, to say because a rapper's getting older that he ain't got it no more. Nah. Don't go by that philosophy. Let's just recognize that talent is within.

A cosmic philosophy is not constructed to fit a man; a cosmic philosophy is constructed to fit a cosmos. A man can no more possess a private religion than he can possess a private sun and moon.

Philosophy will clip an angel's wings.

I arrived from Harvard, where I had studied philosophy and the history of ideas, with a bias toward literature and formal thought.

Nothing is easier than to simplify life and them make a philosophy about it. The trouble is that the resulting philosophy is true only of that simplified life.

When one man speaks to another man who doesn't understand him, and when a man who's speaking no longer understands, it's metaphysics.

The relation of this God with this man; the relation of this man with this God--this is the only theme of the Bible and of philosophy.

I'm big into social studies, the humanities. I really love history and world issues and philosophy and law.

Philosophical theories or ideas, as points of view, instruments of criticism, may help us to gather up what might otherwise pass unregarded by us.

I do not presume that I have found the best philosophy, I know that I understand the true philosophy.

My philosophy is familiarity breeds contempt.

All is for the best in the best of all possible worlds.

My philosophy is fundamentally sad, but I'm not a sad man, and I don't believe I sadden anyone else.

I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business.

The hunger for facile wisdom is the root of all false philosophy.

I am at war... with the principal personage of traditional philosophy, that abstract subject who masquerades as everyone and anyone, but is really a male subject in disguise.

Philosophy is really nostalgia, the desire to be at home.

Digression is the soul of wit. Take the philosophic asides away from Dante, Milton or Hamlet's father's ghost and what stays is dry bones.

We are often taught to look for the beauty in all things, so in finding it, the layman asks the philosopher while the philosopher asks the photographer.

The most altruistic and sustainable philosophies fail before the brute brain stem imperative of self-interest.

I'm in love with a philosophy major, and she doesn't even know I exist. And what's worse, she can prove it.

The heart of the liberal philosophy is a belief in the dignity of the individual, in his freedom to make the most of his capacities and opportunities according to his own lights.

Philosophies fall away like sand, and creeds follow on another like the withered leaves of Autumn.

In my reading of philosophy, I saw that there were innumerable problems that nobody was giving answers for. the Bible, it struck me, dealt with man's problems in a sweeping, all-encompassing thrust.