Philosophy Quotes

• Angels transcend every religion, every philosophy, every creed. In fact Angels have no religion as we know it... Their existence precedes every religious system that has ever existed on Earth.

  

  John Calvin
  • Earth
  • Religion
  • Angels

• Philosophy, most broadly viewed, is the critical survey of existence from the standpoint of value.

  

  Sidney Hook
  • Value
  • Philosophy
  • Existence

• I discovered philosophy in my youth when I read wildly, and thus I was exposed to the world of ideas.

  

  Michel Onfray
  • World
  • Ideas
  • Exposed

• So that's my philosophy: If you believe in yourself, the chances and the opportunities will come around.

  

  Mindy Cohn
  • Believe
  • Opportunity
  • Chance

• You perceive now, my friends, what your general or abstract duty is as teachers. Although you have to generate in your pupils a large stock of ideas, any one of which may be inhibitory, yet you must also see to it that no habitual hesitancy or paralysis of the will ensues, and that the pupil still retains his power of vigorous action.

  

  William James
  • Teacher
  • Literature
  • Educational

• Protectionism is a misnomer. The only people protected by tariffs, quotas and trade restrictions are those engaged in uneconomic and wasteful activity. Free trade is the only philosophy compatible with international peace and prosperity.

  

  Walter Block
  • Freedom
  • Prosperity
  • International

• The thing with the question of oneness or non-oneness is that you can literally discuss it forever. You can go into the philosophy section of any library and you'll see people have been discussing it forever and will continue to do so.

  

  Brad Warner
  • Question
  • Forever
  • Library

• The band has a liberal philosophy - that's sort of a given.

  

  Thurston Moore Sonic Youth
  • Band
  • Philosophy
  • Liberal

• I've always had a philosophy that position doesn't define power. Impact defines power. What impact are you making on people? What impact are you making on business?

  

  Mindy Grossman
  • Philosophy
  • Position
  • Impact

• Our volitional habits depend, then, first, on what the stock of ideas is which we have; and, second, on the habitual coupling of the several ideas with action or inaction respectively.

  

  William James
  • Action
  • Literature
  • Educational

• College totally changed my life. It changed what I believe and what I think about everything. I majored in philosophy.

  

  Steve Martin
  • Believe
  • Education
  • Change

• Anything an artist does is to show ourselves as we really are, which is a complex thing. I don't think that one work of Philosophy or Art, or Letters, or Acting, or Middle Playing, or Tightrope Walking, or Flea Circuses has made mankind better, if by better you mean kinder, wiser, more tolerant of each other. One thing self knowledge. Knoticayton: know thyself.

  

  Peter O'Toole
  • Thinking
  • Art
  • Mean

• Proverbs embody the current and practical philosophy of an age or nation.

  

  William Fleming
  • Nations
  • Currents
  • Practicals

• There are no dead-end jobs. There are no dead-end jobs. There are only dead-end people. Our current social philosophy, and the welfare state apparatus based on it, are creating more dead-end people.

  

  Thomas Sowell
  • People
  • Social
  • Creating

• The sublime can only be found in the great subjects. Poetry, history and philosophy all have the same object, and a very great object—Man and Nature. Philosophy describes and depicts Nature. Poetry paints and embellishes it. It also paints men, it aggrandizes them, it exaggerates them, it creates heroes and gods. History only depicts man, and paints him such as he is.

  

  Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon
  • History
  • Poetry
  • Philosophy

• My driving philosophy about making music is that you can reduce it all down to one note if that note is played with the right kind of sincerity.

  

  Eric Clapton Blind Faith
  • Music
  • Kind
  • Driving

• What is necessary is that epistemology, instead of being the pre-condition for ontology, should grow in it and with it, being at the same time a means and an object of explanation, helping to uphold, and itself upheld by, ontology, as the parts of any true philosophy mutually will sustain each other.

  

  Etienne Gilson
  • Explanation
  • Epistemology
  • Ontology

• The night can sweat with terror as before We pieced our thoughts into philosophy, And planned to bring the world under a rule, Who are but weasels fighting in a hole.

  

  William Butler Yeats
  • World
  • Night
  • Fighting

• In philosophy, it is not the attainment of the goal that matters, it is the things that are met with by the way...

  

  Havelock Ellis
  • Way
  • Goal
  • Philosophy

• My philosophy is, don't take no for an answer and be willing to sacrifice your entire project for freedom.

  

  Tim Robbins
  • Sacrifice
  • Management
  • Planning

• Design is in everything we make, but it's also between those things. It's a mix of craft, science, storytelling, propaganda, and philosophy.

  

  Erik Adigard
  • Design
  • Storytelling
  • Propaganda

• The most important philosophy I think is that even if it isn't true you must absolutely assume there is no afterlife.

  

  Stephen Fry
  • Thinking
  • Important
  • Philosophy

• At the heart of the Irish economy has always been the philosophy of tax competitiveness. On the cranky left, that is very annoying; I can see that.

  

  Bono U2
  • Heart
  • Philosophy
  • Economy

• I am a seeker, a poor, sinful creature, there is no weaker than I.

  

  Dolly Parton
  • Philosophy
  • Poor

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