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Quotes About Philosophy

Obama's claim is that he wants to give. The GOP is saying it wants to take.
~ John Podhoretz
I try to live my life with grace and through grace even though I don't particularly believe in the divine - and that's a direct result of my having been raised Catholic.
~ David Lowery
Logic! Good gracious! What rubbish!
~ E. M. Forster
I never graduated to being an atheist. I only graduated to being an agnostic.
~ Christopher Durang
I don't know what ontological means... I barely graduated high school, and I have never heard that word in conversation.
~ Lou Barlow
I graduated with a B.A. in philosophy, and it was by far the best major I could have taken in college.
~ Katy Tur
I don't believe in materialistic gifts and grand gestures.
~ Barun Sobti
The classic think-tank is supposed to be sitting in an attic thinking up grand ideas.
~ Geoff Mulgan
Sometimes Aristotle analyses his terms, but very often he takes them for granted; and in the latter case, I think, he is sometimes deceived by them.
~ Gilbert Murray
When we considered what to do with the graphics capability of the Wii, we put more attention and focus on the ability to create new experiences rather than the quality of the graphics.
~ Satoru Iwata
There should always be something gratuitous about art, just as there seems to be, according to the new-wave cosmologists, something gratuitous about the universe.
~ John Updike
I consider myself a right-winger and Gray was certainly one.
~ Chester Brown
Maybe it's just my own chronic morbidity and melancholia, but I really do think about it a great deal and quite often in the small hours of the night when, it is said, the greatest numbers of people die.
~ Brian Sibley
I find everything in life a little bit sad, but I also find a great deal of hope everywhere I look.
~ David Lowery
Playing a character who becomes a Buddhist was a great experience.
~ David Thewlis
You know, that's kind of always been our philosophy: not letting the place that we are get in the way of making great music.
~ Finneas
BYU I think had a philosophy of nameless, faceless athletes for the greater good of BYU which is fine. We all did our thing and we're grateful for it.
~ Steve Young
'Groundhog Day' was one of the greatest comedies ever made.
~ Dan Aykroyd
In ancient Greece, politics and the market were not decoupled.
~ George Papandreou
Any time the character is in a moral quandary is interesting. That's been true from the Greeks on down.
~ Robert Sean Leonard
I don't know if I'm the most religious guy, but I think I'm a spiritual man, and these are the things I think about a lot. In terms of the film, I think 'The Grey' is very much a non-denominational kind of film. I don't think it's something that relies on a particular religious bent to tell the story.
~ Joe Carnahan
Burzum was never formed, as Burzum is no group, only Count Grishnackh of many colors.
~ Varg Vikernes
I'm not fixated on death but I know tomorrows are not guaranteed.
~ Jim Ross
Lyrically, I think I'm frustrated with this whole process of trying to figure out what I believe about the world and life. I don't like to adopt a sort of guiding philosophy.
~ James Mercer