Philosophy Quotes · Page 388

“The names of Northern railway stations in a timetable where he would like to imagine himself stepping from the train on an…

— Marcel Proust

There is the enormous corpus of Islamic law that is very rich. However, law is one rational exercise of reason. Philosophy is…

— Francis George

“One of the main purposes of university education is to escape from the Zeitgeist, from the mean, narrow, provincial spirit which is…

— Martin Wight

Music will inevitably get you into Philosophy, and once you logically see that through, will end up getting you into Theology. Once…

— Gino Vannelli

“I, while the gods laugh, the world's vortex am; Maelström of passions in that hidden sea Whose waves of all-time lap the…

— Mervyn Peake

For me the starting point for everything, before strategy, tactics, theories, managing, organizing, philosophy, methodology, talent, or experience, is work ethic. Without…

— Bill Walsh

“I wonder whether the Christmas feeling has anything to do with the sixth sense. Perhaps we're a little more the angels at…

— Jostein Gaarder

“If you must give me a label, then label me a human being. I have no pride in being a human, though,…

— Paul Krassner

“All philosophies and all religions—what are they but spiritual Tubes bored through the universe! Through these narrow tunnels, where all is recognisably…

— Aldous Huxley

“Morals and Ethics Values Express the manner in which the organization adopts universal values of morals, personal ethics and professional ethics. Social…

— Shmaya David

Our mania for rational explanations obviously has its roots in our fear of metaphysics, for the two were always hostile brothers. Hence,…

— Carl Jung

“Of course the no-government ethics will meet with at least as many objections as the no-capital economics. Our minds have been so…

— Pyotr Kropotkin

“Through a carefully cultivated display of intimidation to anyone who contemplated a meaningful challenge, the government had striven to show people around…

— Glenn Greenwald

“Let me tell you a secret about the human condition. Nihilism leads to spirituality. And spirituality leads to nihilism. It is never…

— Abhaidev

To conclude, therefore, let no man out of a weak conceit of sobriety, or an ill-applied moderation, think or maintain, that a…

— Charles Darwin

“It soothes our vanity to say that we failed because we’re too good, or that we’re broke because we’re too honest. But…

— Sam Torode

If you think about it, in the most dramatic moments of its history Europe has always turned to philosophy and, in turn,…

— Roberto Esposito

The modern Gamaliel should teach ethics. Ethics is the science of human duty. Arithmetic tells man how to count his money; ethics…

— David Swing

The family today counts for less and less. Why? Who knows - the growth of science, the Cold War, the atomic bomb,…

— Michelangelo Antonioni

“The main idea of personal happiness at that [Colonial] time was not some hedonistic notion of pleasure but the other, more philosophical,…

— Jack Hitt

Philosophy is not a body of knowledge to impart to someone, that's why reading philosophy books isn't always the best way of…

— Dale Jamieson

When men comfort themselves with philosophy, 'tis not because they have got two or three sentences, but because they have digested those…

— John Selden

In trying to develop an impartial, expansive ethic we are trying to get ethical systems to do something which they did not…

— Dale Jamieson

“When you consider how great and immediate is the problem of existence, this ambiguous, tormented, fleeting, dream-like existence - so great and…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

“Too lazy to be ambitious, I let the world take care of itself. Ten days' worth of rice in my bag; a…

— Ryokan

“At certain epochs, man has felt conscious of something about himself - body and spirit - which was outside the day-to-day struggle…

— Kenneth Clark

“The Taoist and Zen conception of perfection... the dynamic nature of their philosophy laid more stress upon the process through which perfection…

— Okakura Kakuzo

“[L]iberals insist that children should be given the right to remain part of their particular community, but on condition that they are…

— Slavoj Žižek

Above all else, philosophy ought to aim for clarification - of the self, one's place in the world, and the ways we…

— Peg O'Connor

We live in a day when the adversary stresses on every hand the philosophy of instant gratification. We seem to demand instant…

— Boyd K. Packer

Since the branch of philosophy on which we are at present engaged differs from the others in not being a subject of…

— Aristotle

It was precisely this notion of infinite series which in the sixth century BC led the Greek philosopher Zeno to conclude that…

— Tom Stoppard

Kant does not think that the silly commandment "universalize your maxims" is the be-all and end-all of ethics or that it provides…

— Allen W. Wood

Each of the parts of philosophy is a philosophical whole, a circle rounded and complete in itself. In each of these parts,…

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

My master's was in economics, and my Ph.D. was in philosophy, and I became a professor at USP. But after three years,…

— Fernando Haddad

“I have a friend who's an artist and has sometimes taken a view which I don't agree with very well. He'll hold…

— Richard P. Feynman

What I would like to build is a new centre, a wider, broader centre, which would encompass a lot of different philosophies…

— Leo Varadkar

Love always seeks for betterment, for ways of making life more workable, joyful, whole, and beautiful. Love examines every option available to…

— Glenda Green

I love being a conservative. We conservatives are proud of our philosophy. Unlike our liberal friends, who are constantly looking for new…

— Rush Limbaugh

“Love loves and in loving always looks beyond what it has in hand and possesses. The driving impulse [*Triebimpuls*] which arouses may…

— Max Scheler