Ray Bradbury (Ray Douglas Bradbury) Quotes
Ideas and philosophies change just as machines do. Religions changed because of the birth control pill. Politics changes because of the hydrogen bomb. All because of science fictional inventions.Ray Bradbury
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I think that's a weak excuse, to say because a rapper's getting older that he ain't got it no more. Nah. Don't go by that philosophy. Let's just recognize that talent is within.
Raekwon -
There are a few dogmas and double standards and really regrettable exports from philosophy that have confounded the thinking of scientists on the subject of morality.
Sam Harris -
Oh my goodness me, Daniel Day-Lewis – huge, huge fan of his. I've always loved his philosophy on acting: he always talks about returning to a state of play.
Owain Yeoman -
Politics is - once in a while - a forum for serious debate about political philosophy.
P. J. O'Rourke -
Philosophy as practice does not mean its restriction to utility or applicability, that is, to what serves morality or produces serenity of soul.
Karl Jaspers -
Harriet Tubman and Sojourner Truth were slaves by birth, freedom fighters by temperament.
Nancy Gibbs
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It was the rainbow gave thee birth, and left thee all her lovely hues.
W. H. Davies -
Roosevelt's humor was broad, his manner friendly. Of wit there was little; of philosophy, none. What did he possess? Intuition, inspiration, love of adventure.
Emanuel Celler -
There are unwanted emotions and pain that goes along with any birth.
John Travolta -
The philosophy of poetry must acknowledge that the poetic act has no past, at least no recent past, in which its preparation and appearance could be followed.
Gaston Bachelard -
We should think about whether canonizations, which are an invention of the Middle Ages, still make sense today.
Hans Kung -
There is an unlucky tendency ... to allow every new invention to add to life's complications, and every new power to increase life's hustling; so that, unless we can dominate the mischief, we are really the worse off instead of the better.
Vernon Lee
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My idea of philosophy is that if it is not relevant to human problems, if it does not tell us how we can go about eradicating some of the misery in this world, then it is not worth the name of philosophy. I think Socrates made a very profound statement when he asserted that the raison d'etre of philosophy is to teach us proper living. In this day and age 'proper living' means liberation from the urgent problems of poverty, economic necessity and indoctrination, mental oppression.
Angela Davis -
Go away, you give philosophy nothing to catch hold of.
Xenocrates -
Everybody look at you strange, say you changed Like you work that hard to stay the same.
Jay-Z -
The Royal Court more or less gave birth to me. I thought it only right that I should come back to have some Sunday lunch.
Christopher Hampton -
If the birth of a genius resembles that of an idiot, the end of a Havana Corona resembles that of a 5-cent cigar.
Sacha Guitry -
Pilates is the only exercise program that has changed my body and made me feel great.
Jamie Lee Curtis
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I often wonder what I will be remembered in history for. Scholar? Military hero? Builder?
Ferdinand Marcos -
I made up my mind long ago that life was too short to do anything for myself that I could pay others to do for me.
W. Somerset Maugham -
Life´s a gamble, honey. The only guarantee is that nobody gets out alive.
Elizabeth Lowell -
Ideas and philosophies change just as machines do. Religions changed because of the birth control pill. Politics changes because of the hydrogen bomb. All because of science fictional inventions.
Ray Bradbury