Here’s my philosophy in life: If there’s a fire, you put it out. If there’s a flood, you fill sandbags and you build a dike. You roll up your sleeves and you get to work.

You’ve got a degree in philosophy; so you think you’re cleverer than me. But I’m not just some drama queen. Cause it’s where you’re at, not where you’ve been.

My philosophy is: if you can’t have fun, there’s really no point in doing it.

The ant philosophy: Never give up, look ahead, stay positive and do all you can.

Your income is directly related to your philosophy, not the economy.

My philosophy is work, work, work. The talent is in the work.

Triumphal arch, that fill’st the sky When storms prepare to part, I ask not proud Philosophy To teach me what thou art

In Plato’s opinion, man was made for philosophy; in Bacon’s opinion, philosophy was made for man

To sum up the whole, we should say that the aim of the Platonic philosophy was to exalt man into a god

Philosophy is common sense with big words.

One of the notebooks was for musings and pep talks. … The other notebooks were for writing out the novel the way authors had done for centuries.

The Study of philosophy is not that we may know what men have thought, but what the truth of things is

The books were alive in these men. They talked with fire and enthusiasm, the intellectual stimulant stirring them as he had seen drink and anger stir other men. What he heard was no longer the philosophy of the dry, printed word, written by half-mythical demigods like Kant and Spencer. It was living philosophy, with warm, red blood, incarnated in these two men till its very features worked with excitement. Now.

You must learn some of my philosophy. Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure.

Caste, religion, the political system, the economic system — all are helping the bonded labor owners … I believe in Gandhi’s philosophy of the last man, that is, the bonded laborer is the last man in Indian society, that we are here to liberate the last man.

My philosophy is that I am a friend of the children. I don’t think anyone should see them as pitiable subjects or charity. That is old people’s rhetoric. People often relate childish behaviour to stupidity or foolishness. This mindset needs to change. I want to level the playing field where I can learn from the children. Something I can learn from children is transparency. They are innocent, straightforward, and have no biases. I relate children to simplicity and I think that my friendship with children has a much deeper meaning than others.

The reason why a bad philosophy leads to such hell is that it is what you think and want and treasure and foster in times of preparation that determine what you do in the pinch, and that it takes an error to father a sin.

Economics is a study of cause-and-effect relationships in an economy. It’s purpose is to discern the consequences of various ways of allocating resources which have alternative uses. It has nothing to say about philosophy or values, anymore than it has to say about music or literature

That which is now called natural philosophy, embracing the whole circle of science, of which astronomy occupies the chief place, is the study of the works of God, and of the power and wisdom of God in his works, and is the true theology.”

To argue with a man who has renounced the use and authority of reason, and whose philosophy consists in holding humanity in contempt, is like administering medicine to the dead, or endeavoring to convert an atheist by scripture

I am only about half alive a large part of my strength is consumed in sitting up or walking. My nervous system is a shattered wreck, and I am absolutely bored & listless save when I come upon something which peculiarly interests me. However so many things do interest me, & interest me intensely, in science, history, philosophy, & literature; that I have never actually desired to die, or entertained any suicidal designs, as might be expected of one with so little kinship to the ordinary features of life.

The whole drift of our law is toward the absolute prohibition of all ideas that diverge in the slightest form from the accepted platitudes, and behind that drift of law there is a far more potent force of growing custom, and under that custom there is a natural philosophy which erects conformity into the noblest of virtues and the free functioning of personality into a capital crime against society.

The average man does not want to be free. he simply wants to be safe.

Truth would quickly cease to be stranger than fiction, once we got as used to it.

It isn’t a sadness, but a joy, that we don’t do the same things for the length of our lives.

As a newly married person, as much as I would love for my husband to buy into the ‘my way or the highway’ philosophy, you realize it’s all about compromising and finding some sort of middle ground that everyone can live with.

I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.

Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty.

The universe, the whole mass of things that are, is corporeal, that is to say, body, and hath the dimensions of magnitude, length, breadth and depth. Every part of the universe is ‘body’ and that which is not ‘body’ is no part of the universe, and because the universe is all, that which is no part of it is nothing, and consequently nowhere

The dynamic element in my philosophy, taken as a whole, can be seen as an obstinate and untiring battle against the spirit of abstraction.

Philosophy is not an abstract intellectual exercise, but a concrete engagement with the fundamental questions of human existence.

Philosophy is experience transmitted into thought.

The wise man knows how to run his life so that contemplation is possible.

Leisure is the mother of Philosophy

I do not believe in the God of the theologians; but that there is a Supreme Intelligence I do not doubt

Luxurious food and drinks, in no way protect you from harm. Wealth beyond what is natural, is no more use than an overflowing container. Real value is not generated by theaters, and baths, perfumes or ointments, but by philosophy.

The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.

Don’t explain your philosophy. Embody it.

One’s philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes, and the choices we make are ultimately our responsibility.

One’s philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes… and the choices we make are ultimately our responsibility.

One’s philosophy is not best expressed in words. It is expressed in the choices one makes.

Philosophy of science is about as useful to scientists as ornithology is to birds.

A person talks in such generalities that everyone can understand him and it’s considered to be some deep philosophy. However, I would like to be very rather more special and I would like to be understood in an honest way, rather than in a vague way.

Knowledge by itself is not power, but it holds the potential for power if we use it a s a guide for action. Truth will always be defeated by tyranny unless the people are willing to step forward and put their lives into the battle. The future belongs, not to ideas, but to people who act on those ideas.

Less is more. Simplicity is awesome. That’s all you need in life. Its just my personal philosophy.

Science, philosophy and religion are bound to converge as they draw nearer to the whole.

To mix science up with philosophy is only to produce a philosophy that has lost all its ideal value and a science that has lost all its practical value. It is for my private physician to tell me whether this or that food will kill me. It is for my private philosopher to tell me whether I ought to be killed.

Nature, Philosophy and Social issues are three things that always occupy my mind. You do not have any power over others but can only change yourself.

My philosophy is, it’s always very rewarding when you can make an audience laugh. I don’t mind making fun of myself. I like self-deprecating comedy. But I’d like you to laugh with me occasionally, too.

I take happiness very seriously. It is a creed, a philosophy, and an objective.

My philosophy is: If you can’t have fun, there’s no sense in doing it.

The name Bowie just appealed to me when I was younger. I was into a kind of heavy philosophy thing when I was 16 years old, and I wanted a truism about cutting through the lies and all that.

A fool’s brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.

The courage of the truth is the first condition of philosophic study.

Science and knowledge, especially that of philosophy, came from the Arabs into the West.

When Philosophy with its abstractions paints grey in grey, the freshness and life of youth has gone, the reconciliation is not a reconciliation in the actual, but in the ideal world.

The science of religion is one science within philosophy; indeed it is the final one. In that respect it presupposes the other philosophical disciplines and is therefore a result.

In history, we are concerned with what has been and what is; in philosophy, however, we are concerned not with what belongs exclusively to the past or to the future, but with that which is, both now and eternally — in short, with reason.

Philosophy is its own time comprehended in thoughts.

The objects of philosophy, it is true, are upon the whole the same as those of religion. In both the object is Truth, in that supreme sense in which God and God only is the Truth.

When truth has no burning, then it is philosophy, when it gets burning from the heart, it becomes poetry.

The Philosophy of Nature takes up the material, prepared for it by physics out of experience, at the point to which physics has brought it, and again transforms it, without basing it ultimately on the authority of experience. Physics therefore must work into the hands of philosophy, so that the latter may translate into a true comprehension (Begriff) the abstract universal transmitted to it, showing how it issues from that comprehension as an intrinsically necessary whole.

Whatever happens, every individual is a child of his time; so philosophy too is its own time apprehended in thoughts. It is just as absurd to fancy that a philosophy can transcend its contemporary world as it is to fancy that an individual can overleap his own age, jump over Rhodes.

Philosophy is by its nature something esoteric, neither made for the mob nor capable of being prepared for the mob.

Philosophy must indeed recognize the possibility that the people rise to it, but must not lower itself to the people.

There was truth and there was untruth, and if you clung to the truth even against the whole world, you were not mad.

Plain women he regarded as he did the other severe facts of life, to be faced with philosophy and investigated by science.

Nevertheless, the ultimate business of philosophy is to preserve the force of the most elemental words in which Dasein expresses itself, and to keep the common understanding from levelling them off to that unintelligibility which functions in turn as a source of pseudo-problems.

What is peddled about nowadays as philosophy, especially that of N. S. [National Socialism], but has nothing to do with the inner truth and greatness of that movement [namely the encounter between global technology and modern humanity] is nothing but fishing in that troubled sea of values and totalities.

Philosophy is the Devil’s Whore.

Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy.

Philosophy is such an impertinently litigious lady that a man had as good be engaged in lawsuits as have to do with her.

Religion and philosophy are to be preserved distinct. We are not to introduce divine revelations into philosophy, nor philosophical opinions into religion.

I see I have made my self a slave to Philosophy.

The theoretical understanding of the world, which is the aim of philosophy, is not a matter of great practical importance to animals, or to savages, or even to most civilized men.

The point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as not to seem worth stating and to end with something so paradoxical that no one will believe it

Philosophy is that part of science which at present people chose to have opinions about, but which they have no knowledge about. Therefore every advance in knowledge robs philosophy of some problems which formerly it had …and will belong to science.

Descartes, the father of modern philosophy … would never—so he assures us—have been led to construct his philosophy if he had had only one teacher, for then he would have believed what he had been told; but, finding that his professors disagreed with each other, he was forced to conclude that no existing doctrine was certain.

Science is a philosophy of discovery. Intelligent design is a philosophy of ignorance.

My idea of philosophy is that if it is not relevant to human problems, if it does not tell us how we can go about eradicating some of the misery in this world, then it is not worth the name of philosophy. I think Socrates made a very profound statement when he asserted that the raison d’etre of philosophy is to teach us proper living. In this day and age ‘proper living’ means liberation from the urgent problems of poverty, economic necessity and indoctrination, mental oppression

My idea of philosophy is that if it is not relevant to human problems, if it does not tell us how we can go about eradicating some of the misery in this world, then it is not worth the name of philosophy. I think Socrates made a very profound statement when he asserted that the raison d’etre of philosophy is to teach us proper living. In this day and age ‘proper living’ means liberation from the urgent problems of poverty, economic necessity and indoctrination, mental oppression

My view is that if your philosophy is not unsettled daily then you are blind to all the universe has to offer.

Philosophy has no end in view save truth; faith looks for nothing but obedience and piety.

I do not presume that I have found the best philosophy, I know that I understand the true philosophy.

I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of the peace.

There is no philosopher in the world so great but he believes a million things on the faith of other people and accepts a great many more truths than he demonstrates

For my own part, I would rather excel in knowledge of the highest secrets of philosophy than in arm

I remember when I was a freshman in college, I was still somewhat bothered by… worried… about religion. I remember going to this professor of philosophy and telling him that I had lost my faith.

Nature loves courage. You make the commitment and nature will respond to that commitment by removing impossible obstacles. Dream the impossible dream and the world will not grind you under, it will lift you up. This is the trick. This is what all these teachers and philosophers who really counted, who really touched the alchemical gold, this is what they understood. This is the shamanic dance in the waterfall. This is how magic is done. By hurling yourself into the abyss and discovering it’s a feather bed.

Any religion or philosophy which is not based on a respect for life is not a true religion or philosophy.

The philosophy of the schoolroom in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next

I am incapable of speaking of myself and of my life and the states of my soul, I am discreet to an almost pathological degree, and there is nothing I can do against that.

There are metaphysical problems, problems of human existence, that philosophy has never known how to grasp in all their concreteness and that only the novel can seize.

For there is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even one’s own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one feels with someone, for someone, a pain intensified by the imagination and prolonged by a hundred echoes.

That’s the real trouble with the world. Too many people grow up.

A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books

I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world.

Whenever there is fear, you will get wrong figures.

The novel is the imaginary paradise of individuals.

Improve quality, you automatically improve productivity.

And as to me, I know nothing else but miracles.

I bequeath myself to the dirt to grow from the grass I love, If you want me again look for me under your boot-soles.

I always look on the optimistic side of life.

You should never view your challenges as a disadvantage. Instead, it’s important for you to understand that your experience facing and overcoming adversity is actually one of your biggest advantages.

You are better off trying something and having it not work and learning from that than not doing anything at all.

Our roots are deep, and our branches reach for the sky.

I will not be silenced; my words will echo through time.

The stars above us are our destiny.

The sea is behind me. I am in front of myself.

I am a window. I want the wind to love me.

my desire to always get better, always want more, always be my top critic, and accept the good and the bad is a trait that accounts for my success.

Heart is what separates the good from the great.

I can’t speak for the future. I have no crystal ball.

Understanding variation is the key to success in quality and business.

Without data, you’re just another person with an opinion.

After two days in the hospital, I turn to the nurse.

I am free of all prejudices. I hate everyone equally

My pen is my sword, and my words are my shield.