Quotes About Philosophy

I am not here to merely argue about the perplexities regarding theism or philosophy, but to be a light to the world and to reach out to those who long to be a part of that light.

There's more to logic than identifying logical fallacies.

It is better to be Socrates dissatisfied than a pig satisfied.

The world is mere change, and this life, opinion.

Those who advocate common usage in philosophy sometimes speak in a manner that suggests the mystique of the 'common man.'

Philosophy recovers itself when it ceases to be a device for dealing with the problems of philosophers and becomes a method, cultivated by philosophers, for dealing with the problems of men.

It has been said that in order to pursue the history of Biblical interpretation, you must include the whole philosophy of the West, which informs it at every stage.

That Hegel is a metaphysician, and that he thinks metaphysics is fundamental to philosophy, is plain enough from his definition of philosophy.

But then of course a philosophy is not the same thing as a style.

If an angel were to tell us about his philosophy, I believe many of his statements might well sound like '2 x 2= 13'.

All our philosophy is as dry as dust if it is not immediately translated into some act of living service.

The decisions of the courts on economic and social questions depend on their economic and social philosophy.

Philosophy is really homesickness.

As long as I am running this Government I will run the Government as I see fit... as I believe in, based on my philosophy.

The great German idealists from Kant to Hegel saw this idealism or nihilism as a reductio ad absurdum of any philosophy, and so they struggled by all conceptual means to avoid it.

When you're coming up with your philosophy and approach to performing comedy, you take special note of the things you disagree with as much as the things you agree with.

I'm a believer in the parent first, friend second philosophy, and trying to find that balance.

Misfortunes, in fine, cannot be avoided; but they may be sweetened, if not overcome, and our lives made happy by philosophy.

Every now and then, President Obama sorta drops his veil. He's less coy about his philosophy, he sort of reveals his true governing philosophy, what he really believes.

The morality of art is in its very beauty.

When Philosophy with its abstractions paints grey in grey, the freshness and life of youth has gone, the reconciliation is not a reconciliation in the actual, but in the ideal world.

On the one hand, philosophy is to keep us thinking about things that we may come to know, and on the other hand to keep us modestly aware of how much that seems like knowledge isn't knowledge

Economists can be called the worldly philosophers for they sought to embrace in a scheme of philosophy the most worldly of man's activities-his drive for wealth.

I speculate that this is the best of all possible worlds, for philosophy is the best of humanity, and this world is the best philosophically.