Philosophy Quotes
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Philosophy itself cannot but benefit from our disputes, for if our conceptions prove true, new achievements will be made; if false, their refutation will further confirm the original doctrines.
Galileo Galilei
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Philosophy is the opposite of fairy tales.
Jostein Gaarder
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If this ever changing world in which we live in makes you give in and cry, say live and let die.
Paul McCartney
The Beatles
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That's the philosophy that we have always had. Going and playing in front of people and leaving an impressive from that standpoint.
Josh Dun
Twenty One Pilots
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We have the tools, but we have to learn how to use them. That is my political philosophy.
Harri Holkeri
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A song has to take on character, shape, body and influence people to an extent that they use it for their own devices. It must affect them not just as a song, but as a lifestyle. The rock stars have assimilated all kinds of philosophies, styles, histories, writings, and they throw out what they have gleaned from that.
David Bowie
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My philosophy is to not be scared of anyone. If I play well, great; if I don't, I learn from the match and move on.
Saina Nehwal
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But I owe it to the subject to say, that it has long afforded me what philosophy is so often thought, and made, barren of - the fun of discovery, the pleasures of co-operation, and the satisfaction of reaching agreement.
J. L. Austin
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My philosophy is generally to keep things as simple as possible.
Washed Out
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I also realized that the philosophers, far from ridding me of my vain doubts, only multiplied the doubts that tormented me and failed to remove any one of them. So I chose another guide and said, Let me follow the Inner Light; it will not lead me so far astray as others have done, or if it does it will be my own fault, and I shall not go so far wrong if I follow my own illusions as if I trusted to their deceits.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Philosophy has a great sort of appeal in terms of an artistic or aesthetic organization of concepts. It's a conceptual art.
William H. Gass
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That is what the highest criticism really is, the record of one's own soul. It is more fascinating than history, as it is concerned simply with oneself. It is more delightful than philosophy, as its subject is concrete and not abstract, real and not vague. It is the only civilized form of autobiography.
Oscar Wilde