Philosophy Quotes
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Everything is beautiful in its own way.
Ray Stevens
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Philosophy, most broadly viewed, is the critical survey of existence from the standpoint of value.
Sidney Hook
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Philosophy, while it soothes the reason, damps the ambition.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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My philosophy is that everything starts with a great product.
Steve Jobs
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I'm someone who believes in centrist governing philosophy.
Scott McClellan
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A US Department of Education; implementation of a scientific materialist philosophy; studies, being cleansed of religious, patriotic and other features of the bourgeois ideology; students taught on the basis of Marxian dialectical materialism, internationalism and general ethics of a new socialist society; present obsolete methods of teaching will be superseded by a scientific pedagogy. The whole basis and organization of capitalist science will be revolutionized. Science will become materialistic, hence truly scientific. God will be banished from the laboratories as well as from the schools.
William Z. Foster
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The power of philosophy floats through my head.. light like a feather, heavy as lead.
Bob Marley
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Philosophy cannot be taught; it is the application of the sciences to truth.
Alexandre Dumas
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The most effective way I know to begin with the end in mind is to develop a personal mission statement or philosophy or creed. It focused on what you want to be (character) and to do (contributions and achievements) and on the values or principles upon which being and doing are based.
Stephen Covey
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The phenomenological world is not the bringing to explicit expression of a pre-existing being, but the laying down of being. Philosophy is not the reflection of a pre-existing truth, but, like art, the act of bringing truth into being.
Maurice Merleau-Ponty
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Science is practical philosophy.
Rene Descartes
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I'm in love with a philosophy major, and she doesn't even know I exist. And what's worse, she can prove it.
Arj Barker
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If nothing is the way it seems, then this life is just a haunted dream.
Steve Winwood Blind Faith
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We must reason in natural philosophy not from what we hope, or even expect, but from what we perceive.
Humphry Davy
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I felt that my views and philosophies had been changed overnight. The philosophies that i had gladly carved in stone, recited and danced upon.
Cecelia Ahern
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I discovered philosophy in my youth when I read wildly, and thus I was exposed to the world of ideas.
Michel Onfray
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My philosophy is, don't take no for an answer and be willing to sacrifice your entire project for freedom.
Tim Robbins
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Management is clearly different from leadership. Leadership is primarily a high-powered, right-brain activity. It's more of an art it's based on a philosophy. You have to ask the ultimate questions of life when you're dealing with personal leadership issues.
Stephen Covey
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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
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The way in which we manage the business of getting and spending is closely tied to our personal philosophy of living. We begin to develop this philosophy long before we have our first dollar to spend; and unless we are thinking people, our attitude toward money management may continue through the years to be tinged with the ignorance and innocence of childhood.
Catherine Crook de Camp
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Perhaps, you know, new laws, new domains of potential openness are occurring as the universe ages, and complexity previously disallowed is now possible, and we are that complexity. We are nature moving out of its genetic phase - a phase under the control of chemical genes, which are physical structures, in to an epigenetic phase, a phase of culture ruled by codes, transformable culturally confined codes - mathematics, religion, philosophy, art, dance, humor.
Terence McKenna
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The most important philosophy I think is that even if it isn't true you must absolutely assume there is no afterlife.
Stephen Fry
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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
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My scholarly expectation is then that I may succeed in becoming clever in philosophy in spite of my stupidity.
Soren Kierkegaard