Quotes About Philosophy

Go is to Western chess what philosophy is to double-entry accounting.

The American Revolution was, in fact, a battle against the philosophy of Locke and the English utilitarians.

I just want to be healthy and happy. I don't want to hurt anybody or make them mad. If that's a philosophy then that's my philosophy.

Learning philosophy is learning a particular kind of intuitive understanding.

Philosophy can only be approached with the most concrete comprehension.

It is a proof of philosophical mediocrity, today, to look for a philosophy.

People think the free market is a philosophy, they think that it is a creed. It is none of those things. Free market is a bathroom scale, it is a measuring tape, it's simply a measurement.

I find purer philosophy in a Poem than in a Conclusion of Geometry, a chemical analysis, or a physical law

It is our philosophical set of the sail that determines the course of our lives. To change our current Direction, we have to change our philosophy, not our circumstances.

In my opinion a mathematician, in so far as he is a mathematician, need not preoccupy himself with philosophy-an opinion, moreover, which has been expressed by many philosophers.

What if life is just a cosmic joke, like spiders in your underwear.

I went to Princeton from Amherst, where I split my interests between mathematics and philosophy.

A sound philosophy of life, I think, may be the most valuable asset for a psychiatrist to have when he is treating a patient.

I know that there is a force in the world and an energy that you can put out, and when you put out love it comes back to you. I think that's my basic philosophy.

[The current governing judicial philosophy is:] If you want something passionately enough, it is guaranteed by the Constitution. No need to fiddle around gathering votes from recalcitrant citizens.

Hold fast, therefore, O circular philosopher, to thy centre, and drive the globe along its orbit by the momentum of thy thought.

In philosophy, you have to reckon with the implicit level of an accumulated reserve, and thus with a very great number of relays, with the shared responsibility of these relays.

I remain convinced that obstinate addiction to ordinary language in our private thoughts is one of the main obstacles to progress in philosophy.

Zen is not, in my view, philosophy or mysticism. It is simply a practice of readjustment of nervous activity. That is, it restores the distorted nervous system to its normal functioning.

Good Governance cannot remain merely a philosophy. Concrete steps have to be taken for realizing its goals.

What one decides to do in crisis depends on one's philosophy of life, and that philosophy cannot be changed by an incident. If one hasn't any philosophy in crises, others make the decision.

I like to cook with the philosophy of using great ingredients and not altering them too much.

I see the beard and cloak, but I don't yet see a philosopher. -Video barbam et pallium; philosophum nondum video

Superficially, it might be said that the function of the kidneys is to make urine; but in a more considered view one can say that the kidneys make the stuff of philosophy itself.