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Quotes About Philosophy

I'm someone who believes in centrist governing philosophy.
~ Scott McClellan
I make music that I know that people will enjoy, and balance the ideas and philosophy that we put in music with music that when we play it live, people can move to it and groove to it.
~ Ziggy Marley
I'm very passionate about philosophy and religion.
~ Helen Slater
As the Republican Party has moved farther and farther to the right, I have found myself increasingly at odds with the Republican philosophy and more in line with the philosophy of the Democratic Party.
~ Arlen Specter
What I wanted to do was to try to create a philosophy upon a completely new foundation.
~ Colin Wilson
The essence of jiu-jitsu is philosophy.
~ David Mamet
My philosophy has always been that I hope I have a good enough day to give me another one, I hope that I have a good enough year to give me another year. I know that's cliched, but it's the truth in how I approach my career.
~ David Nail
The philosophy to 'buy and hold' is a philosophy that I use to manage funds.
~ Michael Lee-Chin
You know, I've taught philosophy for years and one argues in the hypothetical all the time.
~ Bill Bennett
There are metaphysical problems, problems of human existence, that philosophy has never known how to grasp in all their concreteness and that only the novel can seize.
~ Milan Kundera
Life is sacred to me on all levels. Abortion does not compute with my philosophy.
~ Kate Mulgrew
Mayors of New York have been elected not because of their party label, but because of their philosophy and their approach overall, and that has been since time immemoriam in New York, that people are not party-oriented in New York.
~ Joe Lhota
I don't think there's an interesting boundary between philosophy and science. Science is totally beholden to philosophy. There are philosophical assumptions in science and there's no way to get around that.
~ Sam Harris
I'd like to be an academic, a philosophy lecturer if possible. I'd do a Masters in Ancient Hebrew maybe, and a Ph.D. hopefully, if I get in.
~ Jack Gleeson
First, philosophy concerns itself with all kinds of issues that don't get much airtime in day-to-day life. What's the nature of reality? Can we ever truly know anything, and if so, how? What does it mean to be a moral agent? And while we're at it, is there any such thing as agency anyway?
~ Kathryn Schulz
There are a lot of little lessons that can be taught around the home without sitting a child down and boring them to death with your philosophy of life!
~ Helen McCrory
The purpose of a moral philosophy is not to look delightfully strange and counterintuitive or to provide employment to bioethicists. The purpose is to guide our choices toward life, health, beauty, happiness, fun, laughter, challenge, and learning.
~ Eliezer Yudkowsky
In my office, I have a very beautiful marble bust of Seneca. I always have my eye on him when I'm taking phone calls. He's one of the many philosophers I've always read and admired.
~ Brunello Cucinelli
To photograph reality is to photograph nothing.
~ Duane Michals
Poor but happy is not a phrase invented by a poor person.
~ Mason Cooley
I guess if I had to put it into a single phrase, the moral of the Frank stories is that the hammer never really falls.
~ Jim Woodring
Among intellectuals who consider themselves 'scientific,' the phrase 'the nature of man' is apt to have the effect of a red flag on a bull.
~ Murray Rothbard
I believe we have a physical body and a soul. It doesn't matter what religion you are, whether or not you believe in God. I think people believe that there is a soul and a body.
~ Andris Nelsons
Apparently, some physicists argue that time is curved. I suppose this means that the past is in some way still present.
~ Jeremy Hardy