Quotes About Philosophy

I had a philosophy, which may have been proven right, that directing isn't as hard as everyone says it is.

It is precisely in knowing its limits that philosophy consists.

The philosophy I always have is what's the sentence that would tell me about each shot. If I can't read why the shot's there, what is the story trying to say?

Reality has always proved to be much more sophisticated and subtle than any preconceived philosophy.

Life is just a bag of pot.

It has been said that metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe upon instinct.

It is absolutely the central theme in my design philosophy - that life is erotic, period. The female body is one of the most extraordinary designs ever done in this universe.

There is no philosophy without the art of ignoring objections.

Yoga is a philosophy of discipline and meditation that transforms the spirit and makes the individual a better person in thought, action, knowledge and devotion.

Philosophy studies the world, but the point is to change it.

Never judge a philosophy by its abuse.

Englishmen are babes in philosophy and so prefer faction-fighting to the labour of its unfamiliar thought.

Death is nothing to us: for that which is dissolved is without sensation; and that which lacks sensation is nothing to us.

Original philosophy is always "deviant" or even subversive.

I'm always looking for the idea in a scene or the philosophy that makes a scene worth existing beyond exposition.

Only the most perfect human being can design the most perfect philosophy.

We are not abandoning our convictions, our philosophy or traditions, nor do we urge anyone to abandon theirs.

It is, from another angle, an attack on requiring proof in philosophy. And it's also the case, I guess, that my temperament is to like interesting, new, bold ideas, and to try and generate them.

The philosophy commonly called individualism is a philosophy of social cooperation and the progressive intensification of the social nexus.

Popular atheism is not a philosophy but a therapy.

Think small.... If you can't think small, try philosophy or social criticism.

There was an awful rainbow once in heaven: We know her woof, her texture; she is given In the dull catalogue of common things. Philosophy will clip an angel's wings.

( ...philosophy is more often the systematization of the prejudices of philosophers than the systematization of nature.) Distrust all generalizations: stick to the concrete.

Philosophy teaches us to bear with equanimity the misfortunes of others.