Emmanuel Levinas Quotes
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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 -
Philosophy can only be approached with the most concrete comprehension.
Karl Jaspers -
The Holocaust changed our perception of morality not only because we discovered that morality is the only thing that can stand up to the ultimate evil, but also because it shifted the focus from society to the individual.
Yair Lapid -
Roast beef, medium, is not only a food. It is a philosophy.
Edna Ferber -
In philosophy if you aren't moving at a snail's pace you aren't moving at all.
Iris Murdoch -
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
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What I love about Popsicle and the moments I can be with Camden is that their whole philosophy is family and these moments that it can create to just sit with my son, read a comic book or go outside on a hot day, take a swim and have a Popsicle treat with him.
Vanessa Lachey -
I have seen many teachers in real life, which come from the same background and morality and treat their profession like just another one rather than a noble profession.
Nawazuddin Siddiqui -
One has only as much morality as one has philosophy and poetry.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel -
Modern morality is all about perception.
Rachel Cusk -
People think the free market is a philosophy, they think that it is a creed. It is none of those things. Free market is a bathroom scale, it is a measuring tape, it's simply a measurement.
P. J. O'Rourke -
My religiosity consists in a humble admiration of the infinitely superior spirit that reveals itself in the little that we, with our weak and transitory understanding, can comprehend of reality. Morality is of the highest importance - but for us, not for God.
Albert Einstein
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It's not his demeanor we're voting on. We're voting on what his judicial philosophy will mean for the court,
Barbara Mikulski -
We must set an example now and move environmentalism from being the philosophy of a passionate minority ... to a way of life that automatically integrates ecology into governmental policy and normal living standards.
Leonardo DiCaprio -
Practice the philosophy of continuous improvement. Get a little bit better every single day.
Brian Tracy -
they who are not fastidious as to the means, seldom fail of securing the result they aim at.
Sara Willis -
The advantages of philosophy? That I am able to hold converse with myself.
Antisthenes -
Individualism has really the higher aim. Modern morality consists in accepting the standard of one's age.
Oscar Wilde
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Induction is the glory of science and the scandal of philosophy.
C. D. Broad -
My pitching philosophy is simple - keep the ball way from the bat.
Satchel Paige -
It is an anomaly that information, the one thing most necessary to our survival as choosers of our own way, should be a commodity subject to the same merchandising rules as chewing gum.
A. J. Liebling -
Courage is the power of the mind to overcome fear.
Martin Luther King, Jr. -
This perpetual round of constrained civilities to persons quite indifferent to us, is the most provoking and tiresome thing in theworld, but it is unavoidable in a country town, where everybody is known.... 'Tis a most shocking and unworthy way of spending our precious irrecoverable time, to those who know not its value.
Fanny Burney -
Politics is opposed to morality, as philosophy to naïveté.
Emmanuel Levinas