Philosophy Quotes
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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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Parent hard, play hard. That's my philosophy.
Oliver Hudson
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There is in each of us a stream of tendency, whether you choose to call it philosophy or not, which gives coherence and direction to thought and action. Judges cannot escape that current any more than other mortals.
Benjamin Cardozo
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Philosophy is an elegant thing, if anyone modestly meddles with it; but if they are conversant with it more than is becoming, it corrupts them.
Plato
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I will not allow the Athenians to sin twice against philosophy.
Aristotle
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'Freedom from fear' could be said to sum up the whole philosophy of human rights.
Dag Hammarskjold
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What I mean by photographing as a participant rather than observer is that I'm not only involved directly with some of the activities that I photograph, such as mountain climbing, but even when I'm not I have the philosophy that my mind and body are part of the natural world.
Galen Rowell
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The philosophy of Buddhism is connected to everything. So it probably does have some connection with acting, yes.
Orlando Bloom
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Like the winds that we come we know not whence and blow whither soever they list, the forces of society are derived from an obscure and distant origin. They arise before the date of philosophy, from the instincts, not the speculations of men.
Adam Ferguson
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Philosophy is empty if it isn't based on science. Science discovers, philosophy interprets.
Albert Einstein
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I am a lover, and I deal in love. Sow flowers, So your surroundings become a garden. Don't sow thorns; for they will prick your feet. We are all one body, Whoever tortures another, wounds himself.
Rahman Baba
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Here is the beginning of philosophy: a recognition of the conflicts between men, a search for their cause, a condemnation of mere opinion .. . and the discovery of a standard of judgement.
Epictetus
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It is profound philosophy to sound the depths of feeling and distinguish traits of character. Men must be studied as deeply as books.
Baltasar Gracian
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Let us give something to each person we meet: joy, courage, hope, assurance, or philosophy, wisdom, a vision for the future. Let us always give something.
Daisaku Ikeda
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Why is it that all men who are outstanding in philosophy, poetry or the arts are melancholic?
Aristotle
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The Beginning of Philosophy is a Consciousness of your own Weakness and inability in necessary things.
Epictetus
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Mere unbelief in a personal God is no philosophy at all.
Albert Einstein
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My reading of philosophy and history is desultory; I know so much and yet so little.
F. Sionil Jose
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The Greek philosophies teach us that we are a combination of dark and light, good and evil, and murderer and savior, hmm? And until we know this completely about ourselves we cannot love well, and we cannot forgive ourselves.
Ray Bradbury
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My philosophy? I'm always right and you are wrong.
Oscar Wilde
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Religion without philosophy is sentiment, or sometimes fanaticism, while philosophy without religion is mental speculation.
A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
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True philosophy invents nothing; it merely establishes and describes what is.
Victor Cousin
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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
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Philosophy begins with wonder.
Aristotle