Philosophy Quotes

• Philosophy is perfectly right in saying that life must be understood backward. But then one forgets the other clause - that it must be lived forward. The more one thinks through this clause, the more one concludes that life in temporality never becomes properly understandable, simply because never at any time does one get perfect repose to take the stance - backward.

  

  Soren Kierkegaard
  • Forgets
  • Repose
  • Clause

• A lot of philosophy is bull***t, but a lot of it is what we write songs about too. And it's organizing your thoughts, organizing your intellect.

  

  Gregory Walter Graffin Bad Religion
  • Writing
  • Song
  • Intellect

• I took my brains out and stretched them on the rack, now I'm not too sure I'm gonna get them back.

  

  Paul McCartney Paul McCartney and Wings
  • Brain
  • Philosophy
  • Racks

• I like to follow the “give more, get more” philosophy of leadership.

  

  Dan T. Cathy
  • Leadership
  • Philosophy
  • Follow

• This partnership reflects a shared philosophy in caring for people, whether they are athletes or, in the case of Johnson & Johnson, people around the world. This global opportunity will enable Johnson & Johnson to provide enhanced health education, services and care to people around the world while expanding our reach in emerging markets and strengthening our businesses in developed areas.

  

  Brian Perkins
  • People
  • Education
  • Partnership

• Philosophy is called upon to compensate for the frustrations of politics and, more generally, of life itself.

  

  Hannah Arendt
  • Politics
  • Philosophy
  • Frustrations

• All laws and philosophy merely tell us what should be done, but they do not provide the strength to do it.

  

  Martin Luther
  • Philosophy
  • Laws
  • Provide

• I could see he didn’t understand that knowing a person is about more than knowing whom they fantasize about. That’s the small stuff, actually. Not the big stuff. The big stuff is lying next to a guy on the floor and locking eyes and having deep conversations about philosophy. The big stuff is letting a friend know your hopes and your fears and not having to make a joke about it. That’s what matters

  

  Bill Konigsberg
  • Friend
  • Eyes
  • Stuff

• Non est ad astra mollis e terris via. That's my philosophy. Its a quote from the past. "There is no easy way from the earth to the stars.

  

  Cecil Castellucci
  • Earth
  • Philosophy
  • Easy

• To ridicule philosophy is really to philosophize.

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • Philosophy
  • Ridicule

• We need an approach to ethics which makes no recourse to religion and can be equally acceptable to those with faith and those without.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Faith
  • Needs
  • Ethics

• If history, philosophy and so on vanish from academic life, what they leave in their wake may be a technical training facility or corporate research institute. But it will not be a university in the classical sense of the term, and it would be deceptive to call it one.

  

  Terry Eagleton
  • May
  • Training
  • Research

• Libertarianism is neither of the left nor of the right. It is unique. It is sui generis. It is apart from left and right. The left right political spectrum simply has no room for libertarianism. Think of an equilateral triangle, with libertarianism at one corner, the left at a second corner and the right at the third corner. We are equally distant from both of those misbegotten political economic philosophies. No, better yet, think in terms of an isosceles triangle, with us at the top and the two of them at the bottom, indicating they have more in common with each other than with us.

  

  Walter Block
  • Political
  • Unique
  • Right

• And so my militant philosophy is this: to make with a brush on canvas is a simple direct delight-to make with the movie is the same.

  

  Norman McLaren
  • Simple
  • Canvas
  • Direct

• The atheist is cheating whenever he makes a moral judgment, acting as though it has an objective reference, when his philosophy in fact precludes it.

  

  William A. Dembski
  • Moral
  • Acting
  • Atheist

• It is very important to understand yoga philosophy: without philosophy, practice is not good, and yoga practice is the starting place for yoga philosophy. Mixing both is actually the best.

  

  K. Pattabhi Jois
  • Good
  • Important
  • Practice

• I wrote The Philosophy of Disenchantment, which is, I think, the gloomiest and worst book ever published. Out of sheer laziness, I then produced a history of atheism, The Anatomy of Negation, which has been honored by international dislike. Need I state that of all my children it is the one that I prefer?

  

  Edgar Saltus
  • History
  • Atheism
  • Published

• All roads are blocked to a philosophy which reduces everything to the word "no." To "no" there is only one answer and that is "yes." Nihilism has no substance. There is no such thing as nothingness, and zero does not exist. Everything is something. Nothing is nothing. Man lives more by affirmation than by bread.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Philosophy
  • Answer
  • Affirmation

• Nixon was the one force in Montgomery for a number of years that made any effort in the direction of challenging the power structure. Ed Nixon's source of direction for that comes out of his relationship with the Brotherhood of Sleeping Care Porters and the Randolph philosophy of mass action. So, Ed Nixon really was the force that conceived of the boycott and drew up the original papers for the boycott.

  

  Ella Baker
  • Up
  • Power
  • Action

• You wanted to destroy philosophy and poetry in order to make room for religion and morality.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • Poetry
  • Religion
  • Morality

• City of prose and fantasy, of capitalist automation, its streets a triumph of cubism, its moral philosophy that of the dollar. New York impressed me tremendously because, more than any other city, it is the fullest expression of our modern age.

  

  Leon Trotsky
  • City
  • Fantasy
  • Triumph

• Men of Athens, I honor and love you; but I shall obey God rather than you, and while I have life and strength I shall never cease from the practice and teaching of philosophy.

  

  Socrates
  • Life
  • God
  • Men

• You will attract to yourself people who harmonize with your own philosophy of life, whether you wish it or not.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • People
  • Life
  • Wish

• Live a little be a gypsy, get around. Get your feet up off the ground, live a little, get around.

  

  Paul McCartney The Beatles
  • Up
  • Live
  • Littles

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