Quotes About Philosophy

Growth purely for its own sake is the philosophy of cancer.

I came into acting with that sort of dull, meet-with-triumph-and-disaster-the-same philosophy and it's been the right one for me.

In metaphysics, the notion that earth and all that's on it is a mental construct is the product of people who spend their lives inside rooms. It is an indoor philosophy.

Philosophy asks the simple question: What is it all about?

The way I pitch is the way I pitch. I'm not going to change my overall philosophy. I'll just go out and pitch.

As you are entered with the class of Nat. philosophy, give to it the hours of lecture, but devote all your other time to Mathematics, avoiding company as the bane of all progress.

Teaching and writing about philosophy is about the only thing I've ever been really good at.

Everybody has their own approach. I don't adhere to any one philosophy. I learn a lot from life and people - watching and other people watching.

I take happiness very seriously. It is a creed, a philosophy and an objective.

With type as with philosophy, music and food, it is better to have a little of the best than to be swamped with the derivative, the careless, the routine.

Unless one's philosophy is all-inclusive, nothing can be understood.

Monotheism occupies so large a space in the view of modern minds, that it is scarcely possible to form a just estimate of the preceding phases of the theological philosophy.

Philosophy is the only excuse God has for his cruelty and vanity.

I have been informed repeatedly that in lieu of records, I would be expected to testify about my service in the White House to demonstrate my experience and judicial philosophy.

Philosophy is good advice, and no one gives good advice at the top of his lungs.

The basic philosophy of stoicism is that you have nothing real external to your own consciousness, that the only thing real is in fact your consciousness.

I don't have a philosophy. I have an instinct. I accept stuff that I like.

Philosophy and the arts are but a manifestation of the intelligible ideas that move the public mind; and thus they become visible images of the nations whence they emanate.

Do not commence your exercises in philosophy in those regions where an error can deliver you over to the executioner.

Men accept without questioning that this world is real and important and worthwhile. This is faith. Philosophy is the ongoing questioning of this faith.

Thy steady temper, Portius, Can look on guilt, rebellion, fraud, and Cæsar, In the calm lights of mild philosophy.

A man of business may talk of philosophy; a man who has none may practice it.

It won't do you any good to run if you're running the wrong way. I've developed a new philosophy...I only dread one day at a time.

God loves only one philosophy, And that is the Do-it-here-now philosophy.