Quotes About Philosophy

I do think that philosophy and science are very different intellectual enterprises, but that does not mean that when we get knowledge from philosophy it is a different kind of knowledge.

My philosophy is to make movies with the biggest possible budget that will allow it to be made in an independent fashion.

To scorn philosophy is truly to philosophize.

One of my life philosophies is that you have a choice to make when you're doing something creative. You can be cheesy... or you can be lame.

Without ego I don't know how identity works, I don't know... I need to sit down and re-read some philosophy or something.

When you adopt a tool you adopt the management philosophy embedded in that tool.

I don't exercise. My philosophy is: No pain, no pain.

The folkish philosophy of life must succeed in bringing about that nobler age in which men no longer are concerned with breeding dogs, horses, and cats, but in elevating man himself.

Fathers like to have children good-natured, well-behaved, and comfortable, but how to put them in that desirable condition is out of their philosophy.

Go away, you give philosophy nothing to catch hold of.

It accords with the most liberal spirit of philosophy to suppose that not a stone can fall, or a plant rise, without the immediate agency of divine power.

To me this technical acceptation seems not applicable here, where we have to deal with the simplest moral precepts, and not with psychological niceties of Buddhist philosophy.

If Martin [Luther King, Jr.]'s philosophy had been embraced and lived out in Iraq and other places, we wouldn't have bin Ladens.

I conceive of nothing, in religion, science or philosophy, that is more than the proper thing to wear, for a while.

Philosophy is an unusually ingenious attempt to think fallaciously.

There is nothing in art, in philosophy, or in politics to match the fervor of mutual cooperation among discordant bands of fanatics.

I don't know that I have a single comedy philosophy. But talking about things that matter to you is a good place to start. Listening is a big part of it, too.

The first business of philosophy is to account for things as they are; and till our theories will do this, they ought not to be the ground of any practical conclusion.

Especially the transcendental philosophy needs the leaven of humor to render it light and digestible.

There's no longer a monolithic evil empire somewhere, spreading a different philosophy of life. That doesn't exist.

Don't try and understand this with your mind. There will be no absolute knowing, no certainty in these thoughts and philosophies and ideas.

It's easy to confuse a woman for a philosophy

There is no muse of philosophy, nor is there one of translation.

It requires philosophy and heroism to rise above the opinion of the wise men of all nations and races.