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I looked at the sweatshirt again. "'You swim' is a philosophy?" He shrugged. "Better than 'you sink', right?

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• I play basketball on Sundays and I'm a very spiritual guy; I read a lot of Eastern philosophy and I meditate.

  

  Garry Shandling
  • Guy
  • Play
  • Spiritual

• Philosophy of science without history of science is empty; history of science without philosophy of science is blind.

  

  Imre Lakatos
  • History
  • Science
  • Philosophy

• My philosophy is to be me.

  

  Yohan Blake
  • Me
  • Philosophy

• Size matters in fiction, but so does lack of size. Everything else being equal, fat novels tend to be perceived as serious, very thin ones as more honest, more real. Writers address these age-old expectations by filling their big books with philosophy and cramming their little ones with feeling.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • Real
  • Age
  • Feeling

• As a matter of personal philosophy, I have generally said, 'Why not?' far more often than either 'Why?' or 'Not.'

  

  Rachel Sklar
  • Why
  • Philosophy
  • Said

• I studied philosophy, religious studies, and English. My training was writing four full-length novels and hiring an editor to tear them apart. I had enough money to do that, and then rewriting and rewriting and rewriting.

  

  Ted Dekker
  • Writing
  • Money
  • Religious

• We should remember that there was once a discipline called natural philosophy. Unfortunately, this discipline seems not to exist today. It has been renamed science, but science of today is in danger of losing much of the natural philosophy aspect.

  

  Hannes Alfven
  • Remember
  • Today
  • Science

• Roast beef, medium, is not only a food. It is a philosophy.

  

  Edna Ferber
  • Food
  • Philosophy
  • Roast

• I remember, in my first show in New York, they asked, 'Where is the Indian-ness in your work?'... Now, the same people, after having watched the body of my work, say, 'There is too much Indian philosophy in your work.' They're looking for a superficial skin-level Indian-ness, which I'm not about.

  

  A. Balasubramaniam
  • People
  • Work
  • Remember

• Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze. But the book cannot be understood unless one first learns to comprehend the language and read the letters in which it is composed.

  

  Galileo Galilei
  • Book
  • Universe
  • Language

• I study a lot of philosophy. I want to be an example of how to enjoy this success, and that's exactly what I've done. I've enjoyed every moment.

  

  Flip Wilson
  • Done
  • Success
  • Study

• My philosophy: find what it is you want to say, walk in the room, say it, and get the hell out.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • Want
  • Philosophy
  • Walk

• One has only as much morality as one has philosophy and poetry.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • Poetry
  • Philosophy
  • Morality

• My music and lyrics became an extension of this Indian philosophy.

  

  Gary Wright
  • Music
  • Philosophy
  • Lyrics

• In my writing with Extreme, there are heavy themes. The cover photo has me with a gun to my neck. I am not advocating suicide. I am taking the philosophy that man is the measure of his own fate.

  

  Gary Cherone Van Halen
  • Writing
  • Man
  • Philosophy

• My philosophy is that not only are you responsible for your life, but doing the best at this moment puts you I the best place for the next moment.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Life
  • Best
  • Philosophy

• Kant introduced the concept of the negative into philosophy. Would it not also be worthwhile to try to introduce the concept of the positive into philosophy?

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • Positive
  • Philosophy
  • Try

• Philosophy is like a mother who gave birth to and endowed all the other sciences. Therefore, one should not scorn her in her nakedness and poverty, but should hope, rather, that part of her Don Quixote ideal will live on in her children so that they do not sink into philistinism.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Children
  • Poverty
  • Philosophy

• So far there has been no philosopher in whose hands philosophy has not grown into an apology for knowledge; on this point, at least, every one is an optimist, that the greatest usefulness must be ascribed to knowledge. They are all tyrannized over by logic, and this is optimism in its essence.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Knowledge
  • Philosophy
  • Optimism

• Some liberation theologians maintain that they are not influenced by Marxist philosophy at all. In this case it is necessary to discern whether they say this for tactical reasons, so as not to be compromised politically or whether they are really convinced that Marxism doesn't influence them in any way. I personally think that it is not possible to evade the influence of Marxism, as we cannot commit ourselves to the revolutionary struggle without drawing support from the conclusions of scientific socialism.

  

  Ernesto Cardenal
  • Support
  • Philosophy
  • Reasons

• We should be robustly assisting the Free Syrian Army with equipment and also with training.

  

  Jack Keane
  • Free
  • Training
  • Army

• I suppose romantically there are fantasies that can still be realized. But not professionally.

  

  George Michael
  • Suppose
  • Realized
  • Fantasies

• We thank those Senators, both Republican and Democrat, who stood firm against tremendous pressure from the Bush administration, pro-drilling members of Congress and their allies in the oil industry. They recognize that the budget is an inappropriate place to decide controversial national policy matters like America's energy policy. We urge all members of Congress to remain steadfast in their belief that the vast, unspoiled wilderness of America?s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is more than a line item in the Federal Budget.

  

  Carl Pope
  • Energy
  • Belief
  • Republican

• I looked at the sweatshirt again. "'You swim' is a philosophy?" He shrugged. "Better than 'you sink', right?

  

  Sarah Dessen
  • Philosophy
  • Swim
  • Sink