Quotes About Philosophy

Violence is a calm that disturbs you.

Philosophers are people who do violence, but have no army at their disposal, and so subjugate the world by locking it into a system.

The violence had broken out in both sides, but our philosophy as a party was very, very clear.

It's politely assumed that democracy is a means of containing and restraining violence. But violence comes not from genes but from ideas.

I'm a very great non-violent character. I would never resort to violence to change anything.

Yet if anyone believes that the earth rotates, surely he will hold that its motion is natural, not violent.

Atheists do not seek to violently impose their non-belief onto others. They simply reject all gods inherent to the 10,000 religions known to mankind.

At the risk of sounding like Virginia Woolf, I could live on £700 a year.

I don't attack any kind of script or shooting with some philosophy that is discernible even to myself. It might just be art and love: When I got my Academy Award for 'Virginia Woolf' in the middle of the Vietnam War, I said, 'I hope we can use our art for peace and love.'

The virtual is opposed not to the real but to the actual. The virtual is fully real in so far as it is virtual.

Virtually every scientist now concedes that universe and time itself had beginning. So, whatever begins to exist has a cause. The universe began to exist. Therefore, the universe must have had a cause.

Virtually the only subject in which one could ever get a scholarship to Oxford or Cambridge was classics. So I went to Oxford to study classics and, unlike Cambridge, it had a philosophy component, and I became completely transported by it.

The terms 'progressive' and 'liberal' have virtually nothing to do with each other anymore. And if you are a classical liberal, you certainly aren't a leftist.

We speak of virtue, honour, reason; but our thought does not translate any one of these concepts into a substance.

Everybody believes in something and everybody, by virtue of the fact that they believe in something, uses that something to support their own existence.

Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.

The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue.

My hope is that people begin to understand what the fiscal realities are - how economic virtue differs from political virtue - and develop a realization of their individual economic philosophy in comparison to their perceived political ideology.

I want people to come away from my book with questions. Questions about virtue and goodness. Not answers.

According to the new ethics, virtue is not restrictive but expansive, a sentiment and even an intoxication.

In the midst of vice we are in virtue, and vice versa.

Blessedness is not the reward of virtue but virtue itself.

To think ill of mankind and not wish ill to them, is perhaps the highest wisdom and virtue.

However great an evil immorality may be, we must not forget that it is not without its beneficial consequences. It is only through extremes that men can arrive at the middle path of wisdom and virtue.