Quotes About Philosophy

I've never been interested in dressing one woman. What's interested me was to have a philosophy. It hasn't been important to put a woman in a blue dress. I wanted to dress women who wanted to look at themselves. To stand out. To be women who were not part of the crowd. A woman who fights and advances.

I had always considered myself a martial artist who fights rather than a fighter who learned martial arts - although I probably flowed between those two categories over the years.

I have never been able, really, to figure out where my life begins and where it ends. I have never, never been able to figure it all out, what it's all about, what it all means.

Once you fill yourself with love, then you will have love to give to the rest of the world. This is my philosophy.

Conservatism is not about the party, because the party is merely the shell. It is the inside - it's the filling that really means something.

What finally is beauty? Certainly nothing that can be calculated or measured. It is always something imponderable, something that lies between things.

I'm a firm believer and I think my religion is inside.

I am a firm believer. I don't follow any particular religion. That's the way I was brought up.

I want to put any number of assorted 'ists' - such as relativists, deconstructionists, destructivists, postmodernists, the more maudlin kind of pacifists and feminists - firmly in their place.

I firmly believe that Tagore should be taught in schools all over India.

My candidacy is one that fits the district and fits the Mick Mulvaney-Jim DeMint philosophy.

Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death. If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present.

Those who cannot understand how to put their thoughts on ice should not enter into the heat of debate.

Let men see, let them know, a real man, who lives as he was meant to live.

Whoever lives in Berlin note, and doesn't die of Liberalism, will never die of vexation!

The law of humanity ought to be composed of the past, the present, and the future, that we bear within us; whoever possesses but one of these terms, has but a fragment of the law of the moral world.

Whoever lives among many evils just as I, how can dying not be a source of gain?

Whoever believes he knows why everything is as it is has hold of nothing.

Whoever it was who said that to philosophize is an exercise in dying was right in more ways than one, for by writing a book, nobody gets younger.

Whoever says he is starting from a given in nature may be right, and so is he who says he is starting from nothing!

I have found little that is 'good' about human beings on the whole. In my experience most of them are trash, no matter whether they publicly subscribe to this or that ethical doctrine or to none at all. That is something that you cannot say aloud, or perhaps even think.

It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book.

The whole theme of Interview with the Vampire was Louis's quest for meaning in a godless world. He searched to find the oldest existing immortal simply to ask, What is the meaning of what we are?

I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.