Quotes About Philosophy

One novel in five hundred or a thousand has the quality a novel should have to make it a novel -- the quality of philosophy.

Stay away from philosophy, kids: it will ruin your mind.

Morally and philosophically I find myself in agreement with virtually the whole of it: and not only in agreement with it, but in deeply moved agreement.

Philosophy will tell you what to say, eloquence will tell you how to say it

Empiricism in the sciences is a method; naturalism in philosophy is a metaphysics; and the latter neither follows from nor underlies the former.

The philosophy of reasoning, to be complete, ought to comprise the theory of bad as well as of good reasoning.

The word right should be excluded from political language, as the word cause from the language of philosophy.

Deign on the passing world to turn thine eyes, And pause awhile from letters, to be wise.

Attention to detail can't be (and never is) added later. It's an entire development philosophy, methodology, and culture.

I would not say that I was, these days, a 'student' of philosophy, although in my youth I was quite deeply involved with certain aspects of the British pragmatists.

The continual pursuit of meanings-wider, clearer, more negotiable, more articulate meanings- is philosophy.

'The Last Airbender' is genetically engineered for me. I love martial arts. I study it. The movie's based on a lot of Buddhist and Hindu philosophy. I was raised Hindu.

I'm a layperson. I barely got out of high school. I have no business telling people what to do or my big philosophy on life. I'm certainly not going to write any sort of memoir.

There is no difference in principle, ... between the economic philosophy of Nazism, socialism, communism, and fascism and that of the American welfare state and regulated economy.

Philosophy has degenerated into ideology.

I will not allow the Athenians to sin twice against philosophy.

[P]hilosophy . . .consists chiefly in suggesting unintelligible answers to insoluble problems.

Let no young man delay the study of philosophy, and let no old man become weary of it; for it is never too early nor too late to care for the well-being of the soul.

The lies we tell about our duty and our purposes, the meaningless words of science and philosophy, are walls that topple before a bewildered little 'why'.

The more one is absorbed in so-called philosophy, the greater one's delusion and blindness.

I remain instinctively hostile to communitarian philosophy and communitarian politics.

Philosophy finds itself to be no longer anything but the heir to a fabulous mystical theology, but missing a God and wiping the slate clean.

The Greeks, with their truly healthy culture, have once and for all justified philosophy simply by having engaged in it, and having engaged in it more fully than any other people.

This is my philosophy: I prefer to stay out of the public eye. I love freedom.