Philosophy Quotes
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Philosophy is life's dry-nurse, who can take care of us - but not suckle us.
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Look at native cultures - they've lasted for tens of thousands of years, not doing everything right. We wouldn't want to emulate them in many ways, but their basic philosophies - being a part of nature, a part of a tribe or group without elevating, not what you call dominator philosophies - they lasted for tens of thousands of years. It took us to come and put them asunder.
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I think [ fashion philosophy] it's about your smile and your smell.
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It requires philosophy and heroism to rise above the opinion of the wise men of all nations and races.
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It was my first meeting with a philosophy that confirmed my vague speculations and seemed at once logical and boundless.
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I took my brains out and stretched them on the rack, now I'm not too sure I'm gonna get them back.
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People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind.
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Even today many educated people think that the victory of Christianity over Greek philosophy is a proof of the superior truth of the former - although in this case it was only the coarser and more violent that conquered the more spiritual and delicate. So far as superior truth is concerned, it is enough to observe that the awakening sciences have allied themselves point by point with the philosophy of Epicurus, but point by point rejected Christianity.
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In his Philosophy of Style, Herbert Spencer gives two sentences to illustrate how the vague and general can be turned into the vivid and particular: In proportion as the manners, customs, and amusements of a nation are cruel and barbarous, the regulations of its penal code will be severe. In proportion as men delight in battles, bullfights, and combats of gladiators, will they punish by hanging, burning, and the rack.
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Philosophy stands in need of a science which shall determine the possibility, principles, and extent of human knowledge à priori.
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Wisdom corresponds to the future; it is philosophy.
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We cannot bear to regard ourselves simply as playthings of blind chance, we cannot admit to feeling ourselves abandoned.
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Genius is its own reward; for the best that one is, one must necessarily be for oneself. . . . Further, genius consists in the working of the free intellect., and as a consequence the productions of genius serve no useful purpose. The work of genius may be music, philosophy, painting, or poetry; it is nothing for use or profit. To be useless and unprofitable is one of the characteristics of genius; it is their patent of nobility.
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In matters of philosophy and science authority has ever been the great opponent of truth. A despotic calm is usually the triumph of error. In the republic of the sciences sedition and even anarchy are beneficial in the long run to the greatest happiness of the greatest number.
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The reason I can't follow the old eye-for-an-eye philosophy is that it ends up leaving everyone blind.
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We must be concerned not merely about who murdered them, but about the system, the way of life, the philosophy which produced the murderers .
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Philosophy has its bugbears, as well as superstition.
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They are clearly worried about her constitutional philosophy as are we.
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Throughout history, independent minds have carried mankind forward. Whether they identified how to make fire or manufacture tools, develop rational philosophy or create man-glorifying art, pioneer scientific knowledge or invent the electric light, independent thinkers have created the goods on which human life and prosperity depend.
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We account the Scriptures of God to be the most sublime philosophy.
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The idea of discussing psychological and philosophical ideas in a visual medium was really exciting to me. I thought I was going to go into philosophy...and suddenly I found this way to combine that with my love for visual mediums.
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I like to follow the “give more, get more” philosophy of leadership.
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I do not believe that a moral philosophy can ever be founded on a scientific basis. … The valuation of life and all its nobler expressions can only come out of the soul’s yearning toward its own destiny. Every attempt to reduce ethics to scientific formulas must fail. Of that I am perfectly convinced.
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The freewill you have given, we have made a mockery of.
