Philosophy Quotes
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Practice the philosophy of continuous improvement. Get a little bit better every single day.
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The things a man believes most profoundly are rarely on the surface of his mind or tongue. Newly acquired notions, decisions based on expediency, the fashionable ideas of the moment are right on top of the pile, ready to be displayed in bright after dinner conversation. But the ideas that make up a man's philosophy of life are somewhere way down below.
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It may sound square, but my whole philosophy of running a company can be put in two words: Be nice.
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Barba non facit philosophum.
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Philosophy of science is about as useful to scientists as ornithology is to birds.
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The most natively interesting object to a man is his own personal self and its fortunes. We accordingly see that the moment a thing becomes connected with the fortunes of the self, it forthwith becomes an interesting thing.
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It is within science itself, and not in some prior philosophy, that reality is to be identified and described.
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I see I have made my self a slave to Philosophy.
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I'm always a big fan of if you approach somebody politely about something and you're not a nudge - you're just pretty honest and simple, my kind of philosophy is that I'm not afraid of 'no,' and that's way different than 'I won't take no for an answer.
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Philosophy is not a matter of knowledge; it is a matter of understanding, that is to say, of organizing what is know.
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Philosophy and Religion-what are they when the wind blows and the water gets up in lumps?
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Art requires philosophy, just as philosophy requires art. Otherwise, what would become of beauty?
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Philosophy teaches how man thinks he thinks; but drinking shows how he really thinks.
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The philosophy of FIFA is to expand world soccer space, to spread out the world football space.
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It is one of the consolations of philosophy that the benefit of showing how to dispense with a concept does not hinge on dispensing with it.
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In the 17 years since I graduated from this great College of Law, I have seen that, for many of us, it becomes increasingly easy to rationalize our actions in the name of expediency when facing difficult decisions-to choose a path where the ends justify the means. I want to ask you to challenge Machiavelli's philosophy. I want to humbly suggest that you be the guardians of a more complicated truth: that the means are as important-and sometimes even more important-than the ends.
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The business of philosophy is not to give rules, but to analyze the private judgments of common reason.
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I'm a layperson. I barely got out of high school. I have no business telling people what to do or my big philosophy on life. I'm certainly not going to write any sort of memoir.
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Theology sits rouged at the window and courts philosophy's favor, offering to sell her charms to it.
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There are answers which, in turning away wrath, only send it to the other end of the room, and to have a discussion coolly waived when you feel that justice is all on your own side is even more exasperating in marriage than in philosophy.
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I don't think there is any philosophy that suggests having polio is a good thing.
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Before the scientific rationalism took hold of our minds and before we became succumbed to a materialistic worldview, the Western philosophy was holistic and relational, and even now there are many scientists in the West seeing things totally interconnected.
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If, then, you wish to insure the interest of your pupils, there is only one way to do it; and that is to make certain that they have something in their minds to attend with, when you begin to talk. That something can consist in nothing but a previous lot of ideas already interesting in themselves, and of such a nature that the incoming novel objects which you present can dovetail into them and form with them some kind of a logically associated or systematic whole.
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Indian classical dance is sustained by a profound philosophy. Form seeks to merge with the formless, motions seek to become a part of the motionless, and the dancing individual seeks to become one with the eternal dance of the cosmos.
