Quotes About Philosophy

The promise of business is to increase the general well-being of humankind through service, a creative invention and ethical philosophy.

To have no time for philosophy is to be a true philosopher.

The difficulty in philosophy is to say no more than we know.

Esoteric philosophy teaches that the physical form, the body, of the individual is made new at birth; but the soul is ancient, the stuff of stars.

I do not imply that this philosophy of land was always clear to me. It is rather the end result of a life journey.

The only one that seems to be able to hold the business is Disney. They do it is because they have a fabulous philosophy about marketing- but even they wavered.

Man can no more leave God out of his philosophies than he can live without his heart or see without his eyes.

Any materialist philosophy must take as its point of departure the existence of a material world that is independent of our minds.

He seems the incarnation of everything soft and silky and velvety, without a sharp edge in his composition, a dreamer whose philosophy is sleep and let sleep.

Philosophy is a goddess, whose head indeed is in heaven, but whose feet are upon earth; she attempts more than she accomplishes, and promises more than she performs.

The new religion without any secrets is philosophy. The old religion, said Aristotle, is necessary only for the uneducated; Confucius, Buddha, Voltaire and Lessing were of the same opinion.

All Philosophy is Biography

I see philosophy as a fairly abstract activity, as concerned mainly with the analysis of criticism and concepts, and of course most usefully of scientific concepts.

Again, both literature and philosophy work by appealing to certain reigning idols.

Knowledge of our duties is the most essential part of the philosophy of life. If you escape duty you avoid action. The world demands results.

The discovery of what is true and the practice of that which is good are the two most important aims of philosophy.

Art for art's sake is a philosophy of the well-fed.

Whence? wither? why? how? - these questions cover all philosophy.

We're beings toward death, we're … two-legged, linguistically-conscious creatures born between urine and feces whose body will one day be the culinary delight of terrestrial worms.

Every day, I read books on philosophy and science fiction and human consciousness.

Let no one delay the study of philosophy while young nor weary of it when old.

Philosophy means the complete liberty of the mind.

We have learned to live in a world of mistakes and defective products as if they were necessary to life. It is time to adopt a new philosophy in America.

Philosophy which asserts that human experience repeats itself is ineffectual.