Quotes About Philosophy

No philosophy, no religion, has ever brought so glad a message to the world as this good news of Atheism.

Don't worry if you're a kleptomaniac, you can always take something for it.

If we are not supposed to eat animals, then why are they made of meat?

One of the reasons I admire David Lindsay-Abaire's work is that he, like the Greeks I've spent so much of my professional life contemplating, is not afraid of taking on the big stuff - huge, human, moral issues - what do we owe to those we love?

My father, Emil Palade, was professor of philosophy, and my mother, Constanta Cantemir-Palade, was a teacher. The family environment explains why I acquired early in life great respect for books, scholars and education.

When I was in film school I had this great professor, Jerzy Antczak, a Polish filmmaker, and Joe Russo of the Russo Brothers were in my class. It was this kind of Easter European philosophy of motivating camera only through character and motions, and just exploring with lenses. That was the best year of my education in my life.

Arsene Wenger is different. He's a purist. He's a professor of football. A professor.

Stoicism - and philosophy - are not the domains of idle professors. They are the succor of the successful and the men and women of action.

All of us, whether we are ignorant of philosophy or professors of philosophy, find it easier to follow dogma than to think.

Cruyff defined a philosophy and a style of how we had to play: positional play, type of players, the profile of the coaches, even.

I started paddy cultivation not for profit.

You don't have to have the capitalistic profit motive philosophy.

We do not always need to think in terms of business or profit.

With comedy I can search for the profound.

There are very few profound sayings in the world.

I think, first and foremost, Marie Antoinette was intellectually impoverished. She really had never been introduced to the notion of abstract thinking - of thinking at all in any profound way.

Henry Miller, Jack Kerouac, Albert Camus, Graham Greene - they influenced my life to a profound extent.

My writing, like everything I do, comes profoundly from my heart. I believe that if you follow your heart you will be successful in one way or another. Old-fashioned as that might sound, the philosophy is true.

I was never encouraged to believe anything. I was brought up in a profoundly agnostic or pantheistic community.

In philosophy, they talk a lot about humans being actual organic machines, and the idea of free will is something that we've made up. We actually don't have free will. We're acting according to our programming as organic mechanisms.

Fundamental progress has to do with the reinterpretation of basic ideas.

Emerson then incarnated the moral optimism, the progress, and the energy of the American spirit.

I undertake the same project as Montaigne, but with an aim contrary to his own: for he wrote his Essays only for others, and I write my reveries only for myself.

Practically all the prominent leaders of thought in China today are openly agnostics and even atheists.