Philosophy Quotes
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That makes me think, my friend, as I have often done before, how natural it is that those who have spent a long time in the study of philosophy appear ridiculous when they enter the courts of law as speakers. Those who have knocked about in courts and the like from their youth up seem to me, when compared with those who have been brought up in philosophy and similar pursuits, to be as slaves in breeding compared with freemen.
Plato
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The other was that all the major civil rights organizations, new as well as old, were committed to the philosophy of non-violence, the doctrine preached by the most conspicuous leader in the Negro movement, Martin Luther King. ‘We will soon wear you down by our capacity to suffer,’ he told the whites, ‘and in winning our freedom we will so appeal to your heart and conscience that we will win you in the process.
C. Vann Woodward
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My parents lived a modest life, and their main concern was the education of their children. My father was a self-taught man but had a great intellectual curiosity, not only for biblical and talmudic texts, but also for philosophy, psychoanalysis and history.
Claude Cohen-Tannoudji
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Don't explain your philosophy. Embody it.
Epictetus
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Miranda Lambert is actually mixing the singer-songwriter philosophy with the commercial country mindset. And I find it just inspiring. My hat's off completely, because she's pulling it off, and I couldn't figure out a way to do it.
Allison Moorer
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The advantages of philosophy? That I am able to hold converse with myself.
Antisthenes
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Philosophy is explicitness, generality, orientation and assessment. That which one would insinuate, thereof one must speak.
Ernest Gellner
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What selfish seeds I plant along the way, black harvest today.
Steve Winwood
Blind Faith
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The purpose of Plato, or of Aristotle, as Al-Farabi conceived of it, is sufficiently revealed in this seemingly conventional praise of philosophy.
Leo Strauss
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And what is shamanism but philosophy with a hands-on attitude. Philosophy not made around the camp fire, but philosophy based on the acquisition of extreme experience. That's how you figure out what the world is, not by bicycling around in the burbs, but by forcing extreme experience.
Terence McKenna
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A naturopath once told me you should never take antibiotics except if you have pneumonia, a kidney infection or some other serious illness. That's my philosophy, too.
Pamela Sue Martin
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Maybe one of the jobs of theory or philosophy is to elevate principles that seem impossible, or that have the status of the impossible, to stand by them and will them, even when it looks highly unlikely that they'll ever be realised. But that's ok, it's a service.
Judith Butler
