Quotes About Philosophy

Without time," the angel said, "you have only the bottomless, shapeless mire of eternity." "FYI, philosophy bores me." "Not philosophy. Reality. Time is what gives life significance.

It is vain philosophy that supposes more causes than are exactly adequate to explain the phenomena of things.

The Buddha taught three cycles of teachings. His first cycle of teachings cover the basics, the prerequisites. This would include the Dharmapada.

It strains a man's philosophy the worst kind to laugh when he gets beat.

Philosophy seems to me on the whole a rather hopeless business.

I'm not on the court anymore, so no use looking for my philosophy. If somebody's waiting for that, they can wait for another justice.

Among the facts of the universe to be accounted for, it may be said, is Mind; and it is self evident that nothing can have produced Mind but Mind.

It is expedient that there should be gods, and, since it is expedient, let us believe that gods exist.

The ultimate philosophical challenge is to reveal the ontology of God.

First of all you must understand that practising martial arts means studying a certain oriental philosophy of life, otherwise it's merely a vacuous sport devoid of any significance.

Everything you have is to give. Thou art a phenomenon of philosophy and an unfortunate man.

Everyone should have a philosophy for living better.

Cinema for me is an area of philosophy and artistic statement.

Against classical philosophy: thinking about eternity or the immensity of the universe does not lessen my unhappiness.

A philosophy may explain difficult things, but has no power to change them. The gospel, the story of Jesus' life, promises change.

Philosophy is by the timid for the timid.

The bosom-weight, your stubborn gift, That no philosophy can lift.

Mys philosophy toward art is true to my time, true to my dream, and true to myself.

Maybe it's my libertarian philosophy: but being in government is hard.

It not seldom happens that in the purposeless rovings and wanderings of the imagination we hunt down such game as can be put to use by our purposeful philosophy in its well-ordered household.

God is a synergetic experience. Science can never reveal it, philosophy can never come to it - only a poetic approach, a very passive, very loving approach, can.

I was not looking for a sitcom, because the philosophy at that point was that you had to make a choice: Were you going to do movies or TV? You couldn't cross over.

I'm the kind of anarchist whose chief objection to the State is that it kills so many people. Government is the epitome of the deathist philosophy I reject.

Philosophy can forsake too easily the details of experience… many writers and painters have demonstrated that thinking long about what art is or ought to be ruins the power to write or paint.