Philosophy Quotes
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My philosophy through all my work, be it on canvas or on the street, is about pushing boundaries and not going with the flow because everyone else is doing something a certain way.
Ben Eine
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Life is a gift of the immortal Gods, but living well is the gift of philosophy.
Seneca the Younger
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What chemists took from Dalton was not new experimental laws but a new way of practicing chemistry (he himself called it the 'new system of chemical philosophy'), and this proved so rapidly fruitful that only a few of the older chemists in France and Britain were able to resist it.
Thomas Kuhn
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I'm someone who believes in centrist governing philosophy.
Scott McClellan
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Punk rock really came out of N.Y. as a philosophy before the groups were ever recorded. I had a kind-of intellectual interest in the idea of creating a new scene that could be a grassroots thing.
Greg Ginn Black Flag
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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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Shall I tell you what philosophy holds out to humanity? Counsel...You are called in to help the unhappy.
Seneca the Younger
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"You only get married the first time once." There was the philosophy of a generation wrapped up in a tidy little sentence
Carrie Vaughn
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Son, remember when you fight to be free, to see things how they are, and not how you like em to be. Cause even when the world is falling on top of me, pessimism is an emotion, not a philosophy.
Felipe Andres Coronel
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Bleep theory belongs in philosophy, not a science class. But I think it does have enough merit to be a topic of conversation somewhere other than the backwoods and closets.
Eric Johnson
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Philosophy is the childhood of the intellect, and a culture that tries to skip it will never grow up.
Thomas Nagel
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In its youth a people produce mythology and poetry; in its decadence, philosophy and logic.
Will Durant
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Philosophy should be an energy; it should find its aim and its effect in the amelioration of mankind.
Victor Hugo
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Everything that you could think about in life, or experience, or be interested in, theoretically should be expressed or dealt with in cinema. But the way typical narratives are set up, there's no room for philosophy, because it's just digressive material. It's not advancing the plot, so there's no place for it. It's the kind of stuff you would cut out, and that you shouldn't have put in there to begin with.
Richard Linklater
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Fathers like to have children good-natured, well-behaved, and comfortable, but how to put them in that desirable condition is out of their philosophy.
Ernestine Rose
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My philosophy is that it's better to explore life and make mistakes than to play it safe and not to explore at all.
Sofia Villani Scicolone
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There is no other start to philosophy but wonder.
Plato
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To ask whether the natural rights philosophy of the Declaration of Independence is true or false, is essentially a meaningless question.
Carl L. Becker
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I've never been interested in philosophy, but some of Jung's ideas seem useful in helping people understand pictures and so forth.
Sigmar Polke
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You can't do science in a novel, but you can do philosophy. Or, if you're really lucky, you can manage to pose a question in such a way that other people will take it on.
Scarlett Thomas
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Philosophy is good advice, and no one gives good advice at the top of his lungs.
Seneca the Younger
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Unfortunately, the only recognized relics of yesterday's farmers are obsolete curiosities when the greatest relic, their philosophy of living, is seldom considered.
Eric Sloane
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Let children read whatever they want and then talk about it with them. If parents and kids can talk together, we won't have as much censorship because we won't have as much fear.
Judy Blume
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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