Quotes About Philosophy

We live in a world in which politically fascistic behavior, if not the actual philosophy, is unquestionably on the rise.

I'm not your average politician. I believe in higher forces.

When philosophers try to be politicians they generally cease to be philosophers.

Idealism is the despot of thought, just as politics is the despot of will.

The man of science is a poor philosopher.

There is a noble manner of being poor, and who does not know it will never be rich.

Laissez Faire was very good sauce for the goose, labor, but was very poor sauce for the gander, capital.

I'd like to live as a poor man with lots of money.

I believe in the Democratic party, and their philosophy and what they stand for - for the poor people.

That some are poorer than others, ever was and ever will be: And that many are naturally querulous and envious, is an Evil as old as the World.

I am an atheist, and if an atheist and a pope think the same things, there must be something true. It's that simple!

As my grandma used to say, 'Between now and then, a pope could be born.' We never say what's going to happen tomorrow. We make the most of today.

I've been a conservative my whole life. There is nothing hard-right or far-right about anything. I just believe in ideas and that ideas matter in history, and that's my background, and that's the way I'd like to be portrayed.

There's a weird intellectual approach to filmmaking, where I pose a question to myself and use the film to try and answer it.

To the extent that philosophical positions both confuse us and close doors to further inquiry, they are likely to be wrong.

Intellectually, now, I believe that it is a complete vanity to say positively there is no God.

I understand the human instinct to want to create a nest and possess things, to show them off, but for me personally, it became less and less interesting.

Common sense says that if something possessed the ability to create itself from nothing, then that something wasn't nothing, it was something - a very intelligent creative power of some sort.

I am a little too absorbed by science to be able to philosophise much; but the more I look into myself, the more I find myself possessed by the conviction that it is only the science of Christ running through all things, that is to say true mystical science, that really matters. I let myself get caught up in the game when I geologise.

I am not one who was born in the possession of knowledge; I am one who is fond of antiquity, and earnest in seeking it there.

I don't like possessions.

As a scholar I am interested in the philosophy of language, semiotics, call it what you want, and one of the main features of the human language is the possibility of lying.

I think there will always be a possibility that God doesn't exist because He is infinitude and into that infinitude must come that possibility.

I think that's the philosophy of all top teams - to educate young, top players and to give them the possibility to play.