Philosophy Quotes

"It is, then, by those shadows of the hoary Past and their fantastic silhouettes on the external screen of every religion and philosophy, that we can, by checking them as we go along, and comparing them, trace out finally the body that produced them"

H. P. Blavatsky, Philosopher

"I think he's informing himself, reaching out and getting ideas and information and advice. I haven't the slightest doubt that internally taking shape in that marvelous brain of his is a philosophy of foreign affairs. But it would be premature to say that one is fully formed"

Theodore C. Sorensen, Lawyer

"Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy"

Ludwig van Beethoven, Composer

"There is no religion in which everyday life is not considered a prison; there is no philosophy or ideology that does not think that we live in alienation"

Eugene Ionesco, Dramatist

"The Occultists, however, know that the traditions of Esoteric Philosophy must be the right ones, simply because they are the most logical, and reconcile every difficulty"

H. P. Blavatsky, Philosopher

"The human imagination... has great difficulty in living strictly within the confines of a materialist practice or philosophy. It dreams, like a dog in its basket, of hares in the open"

John Berger, Artist

"My personal philosophy of life is one of ethics"

Alva Myrdal, Diplomat

"But it is the province of religion, of philosophy, of pure poetry only, to go beyond life, beyond time, into eternity"

Alfred de Vigny, Poet

"I decided to teach because I think that any person who studies philosophy has to be involved actively"

Angela Davis, Activist

"I think that consciousness has always been the most important topic in the philosophy of mind, and one of the most important topics in cognitive science as a whole, but it had been surprisingly neglected in recent years"

David Chalmers, Philosopher

"I find purer philosophy in a Poem than in a Conclusion of Geometry, a chemical analysis, or a physical law"

Wilfred Owen, Soldier

"There is no shorter path for joining a neutral existential anthropology, according to philosophy, with the existential decision before God, according to the Bible"

Paul Ricoeur, Philosopher

"While I am interested both in economics and in philosophy, the union of my interests in the two fields far exceeds their intersection"

Amartya Sen, Philosopher

"You can't do without philosophy, since everything has its hidden meaning which we must know"

Maxim Gorky, Novelist

"In the information age, you don't teach philosophy as they did after feudalism. You perform it. If Aristotle were alive today he'd have a talk show"

Timothy Leary, Educator

"It is an acknowledged truth in philosophy that a just theory will always be confirmed by experiment"

Thomas Malthus, Economist

"In philosophy, you have to reckon with the implicit level of an accumulated reserve, and thus with a very great number of relays, with the shared responsibility of these relays"

Jacques Derrida, Philosopher

"In Algeria, I had begun to get into literature and philosophy. I dreamed of writing-and already models were instructing the dream, a certain language governed it"

Jacques Derrida, Philosopher

"It is a great advantage for a system of philosophy to be substantially true"

Sophia Loren, Actress

"I begin to perceive that I am a woman. What that is, heaven knows... the philosophy is yet to be written, there is a world to be explored"

Pam Gems, Playwright

"I am at war... with the principal personage of traditional philosophy, that abstract subject who masquerades as everyone and anyone, but is really a male subject in disguise"

Pam Gems, Playwright

"However, while the Nazi barbarians and their collaborators threatened the entire world, I could not accept his philosophy and, after several earlier attempts, was finally accepted into the Canadian Infantry Corps during the last year of World War II"

Walter Kohn, Physicist

"I support Democrats and Republicans. And I'm telling you that the business community in this company is frightened to death of the weird political philosophy of the President of the United States. And until he's gone, everybody's going to be sitting on their thumbs"

Steve Wynn, Businessman

"I had a liberal arts education at Amherst College where I had two majors, mathematics and philosophy"

Stephen Cole Kleene, Mathematician

"Buddhism has become a socially recognized religious philosophy for Americans, whereas it used to be considered an exotic religion"

Thurston Moore, Musician

"We have the tools, but we have to learn how to use them. That is my political philosophy"

Harri Holkeri, Politician

"Democracy may have arisen in the West as the way of striving for the universal aspiration to dignity and freedom, but it isn't alien to the underlying concepts that infuse religion and moral philosophy everywhere"

Flora Lewis, Journalist

"My philosophy was, if I just do good work, someone will like it enough to employ me. It never made me famous. And I'm way, way too old now, mate. That boat's sailed"

Ian Hart, Actor

"I always wanted to see if I could sell a movie to the public without doing any marketing because my philosophy was like, hey man, I'm reaching my audience everyday. I'm twittering with them. I'm in direct contact with them on the podcast"

Kevin Smith, Director

"As a dad, he thinks that his philosophy is morally correct. He has no conscience whatsoever about letting his kids put a penny in a light socket to find out electricity is not so good for you, and if you want to learn how to swim, you have to be thrown into the deep end"

Stacy Keach, Actor

"We have to make philosophy itself an object of philosophical concern"

Wilhelm Dilthey, Historian

"Some of the poetic writers who insert passages of realism in their texts have no underlying philosophy to uphold them, and revert to realism"

Marguerite Young, Author

"Yeah, but in the end his followers take what they want from his philosophy. Maybe it doesn't matter what's going on in David Icke's mind. It's how other people take him"

Jon Ronson, Journalist

"Before Vatican II, in theology, as in other areas, the discipline was fixed. After the council there has been a revolution - a chaotic revolution - with free discussion on everything. There is now no common theology or philosophy as there was before"

Godfried Danneels, Clergyman

"The questions of philosophy proper are human desires and fears and aspirations - human emotions - taking an intellectual form"

Chauncey Wright, Philosopher

"Ayurveda is a sister philosophy to yoga. It is the science of life or longevity and it teaches about the power and the cycles of nature, as well as the elements"

Christy Turlington, Model

"I very rarely read any fiction. I love biographies; I read about all kinds of people. I love theology and some philosophy"

Al Sharpton, Politician

"We are not abandoning our convictions, our philosophy or traditions, nor do we urge anyone to abandon theirs"

Mikhail Gorbachev, Statesman

"I just learned my lyrics and tried not to bump into the trumpet player. That was my philosophy"

Jo Stafford, Musician

"My philosophy all my life has been the pursuit of excellence"

John Kluge, Businessman

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