Quotes About Philosophy

There is more hope in a heather rose than in all the tons of Teutonic philosophy.

I really wanted to maintain that bedroom philosophy to creating stuff.

Philosophizing is a process of making sense out of experience.

I've imparted that philosophy to the writers, but some of them look stuff up while some don't. Same with the editors, directors and actors. To each their own.

No one's policing their own minds more than an author. You spend a lot of time in your own head analysing what you think about things, and a philosophy comes.

Good and evil lay side by side.

At the very moment when someone is beginning to take philosophy seriously, the whole world believes the opposite.

I like to think that death gives life meaning. I like that philosophy.

People seek a new orientation, a new philosophy, one which is centered on the priorities of life-physically and spiritually-and not on the priorities of death.

I was a poet animated by philosophy, not a philosopher with poetic faculties.

Rightly viewed no meanest object is insignificant; all objects are as windows through which the philosophic eye looks into infinitude itself.

Philosophy is the product of wonder. The effort after the general characterization of the world around us is the romance of human thought.

I'm doing philosophy like an old woman, first I'm looking for my pencil, then I'm looking for my glasses, then I'm looking for my pencil again.

I went to Notre Dame. I don't know if that has any relevance, but maybe we all had a little too much philosophy and theology.

To adjust your philosophy and creativity in fashion to the time you're living in is the most important thing.

I have no personal system of philosophy. I never attempt to do that. I am merely a man of letters.

Shamanism is just show business and philosophy is just a branch of that vaudevillian impulse.

Philosophy teaches you to think big.

Empirical sciences prosecuted purely for their own sake, and without philosophic tendency are like a face without eyes.

There is space in its philosophy for everyone which is one reason why India is a home to every single religion in the world.

Socrates condemned art because he preferred philosophy and only after much internal struggle did Plato accept this judgment.

Shall I tell you what philosophy holds out to humanity? Counsel...You are called in to help the unhappy.

Paradox is thus a much deeper and universal concept than the ancients would have dreamed. Rather than an oddity, it is a mainstay of the philosophy of science.

It is the sternest philosophy, but on the whole the truest, that, in the wide arena of the world, failure and success are not accidents, as we so frequently suppose, but the strictest justice.