Quotes About Philosophy

There are philosophies which are unendurable not because men are cowards, but because they are men.

From the beginning philosophy sought for The order behind the disorder Thales sipped cheap wine And in this did divine: "Why it's nothing at all but pure water!"

Bader's philosophy was my philosophy. His whole attitude to life was mine.

History is philosophy teaching by experience.

The boundary between philosophy and fiction is not as clear cut as you may think and the two definitely interact.

Philosophy is fundamentally about how you come to terms with living your life and trying to do it in a wise manner, and, for me, that means decently and compassionately and courageously and so forth.

Darwinism is not merely a support for naturalistic philosophy: it is a product of naturalistic philosophy.

That the world is a divine game and beyond good and evil:Min this the Vedanta philosophy and Heraclitus are my predecessors.

We would like to have a great future, so we need to think about the urban philosophy, the urban problems, and the construction of the city. That's the new politics, maybe.

I have no perfect panacea for human ills. And even if I had I would not attempt to present a system of philosophy between the soup and fish.

What is it to be a philosopher? Is it not to be prepared against events?

In a political context of the utmost significance, ["freedom from fear"] recognizes a human right which, in a broad sense, may be said to sum up the whole philosophy of human rights.

We may receive so much light as not to see, and so much philosophy as to be worse than foolish.

My philosophy is: Everybody needs to look out for everybody else.

The world was to Shakespeare a great stage of fools on which he was utterly bewildered. His pregnant observations of life are not coordinated into any philosophy.

I don't feel proprietorial about the problems of philosophy. History has taught us that many philosophical issues can grow up, leave home and live elsewhere.

I can remember picking up weighty tomes on the history of science and the history of philosophy and reading those when I was small.

the blessings of matrimony, like those of poverty, belong rather to philosophy than reality.

I begin to perceive that I am a woman. What that is, heaven knows... the philosophy is yet to be written, there is a world to be explored.

Reply to Plato: I seen horses I seen cows I haint never yet seen horsiness nor that there bovinity neither.

Every man has two vocations: his own and philosophy.

Doing something stupid once is just plain stupid. Doing something stupid twice is a philosophy.

We think of history as another specialization, like philosophy of language, rather than as something that informs everything we do and think.

It is my hope that as the Negro plunges deeper into the quest for freedom and justice he will plunge even deeper into the philosophy of non-violence.