Philosophy Quotes · Page 104

We need many more intrepid women who set out to expand both their and our concepts of the world. We need them…

— Lesley Hazleton

These are fashionable people who call themselves philosophers.

— Noam Chomsky

But if science may be said to be blind without philosophy, it is true also that philosophy is virtually empty without science.

— A.J. Ayer

I was born Muslim, but for a large part of my life, I wasn't necessarily raised Muslim. My father always kept everything…

— Lupe Fiasco

Eventually I gave up teaching at the St. Paul Gallery because of disagreements with the philosophy of that museum, and I got…

— Warren MacKenzie

“It is disgraceful for a philosopher to say: the good and the beautiful are one; if he adds 'also the true', one…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“And what is a friend? More than a father, more than a brother: a traveling companion, with him, you can conquer the…

— Elie Wiesel

It has never been in my power to study anything, mathematics, ethics, metaphysics, gravitation, thermodynamics, optics, chemistry, comparative anatomy, astronomy, psychology, phonetics,…

— Charles Sanders Peirce

Well, I must endure the presence of a few caterpillars if I wish to become acquainted with the butterflies.

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

I have been curious about the mind and body for as long as I can remember. I was a gymnast, a ballet…

— Rodney Yee

To be a good traveler argues one no ordinary philosopher. A sweet landscape must sometimes be allowed to atone for an indifferent…

— Henry Theodore Tuckerman

“(This sect (the Encyclopaedists) propagate with much zeal the doctrine of materialism, which prevails among the great and the wits; we owe…

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton

Roast Beef, Medium, is not only a food. It is a philosophy. Seated at Life's Dining Table, with the menu of Morals…

— Edna Ferber

Mind is locked in matter like the spirit Ariel in a cloven pine. Like Ariel, men struggle to escape the drag of…

— Loren Eiseley

I've been labelled many times - a criminal, an anarchist, a rebel, sometimes human garbage, but never a philosopher, which is a…

— Steve Toltz

Being a philosopher is to think, seek wisdom, and have principles that guide and influence what you do. It's to give meaning…

— Andrea Pirlo

“Children imitate their parents, employees their managers.”

— Amit Kalantri

There's more philosophy in jiu-jitsu mats than in any Ivy League school in America.

— Renzo Gracie

“An old fashioned outfit is not a costume, it's a comedy.”

— Amit Kalantri

“TRUTH, n.: An ingenious compound of desirability and appearance. Discovery of truth is the sole purpose of philosophy, which is the most…

— Ambrose Bierce

He raged for hours. And the skeleton, ever the frail and solelmn philosopher, hung quietly inside, saying not a word, suspended like…

— Ray Bradbury

“Theres a process of self doubt when things go wrong. Whether or not its personal or a friend in trouble, looking at…

— Adam Mickley Wood

“Truth changes with the season of our emotions. It is the shadow that moves with the phases of our inner sun. When…

— Shannon L. Alder

A writer must always try to have a philosophy and he should also have a psychology and a philology and many other…

— Gertrude Stein

“To lovers out there … One day we must break away from the myths that if you single and not dating. It…

— De philosopher DJ Kyos

“Some change their philosophy of life with every book they read: one book sells them on Freud, the next on Marx; materialists…

— Fulton J. Sheen

You think that way as you begin to get grayer and you see pretty plainly that the game is not going to…

— Loren Eiseley

There's no precedent for women philosophers and there's no precedence for most of the things I did.

— Agnes Denes

One does not have to be a philosopher to be a successful artist, but he does have to be an artist to…

— Criss Jami

Being a physicist, not a philosopher, I have devised an entirely new theory of consciousness, allowing one to numerically calculate the level…

— Michio Kaku

We are so far from knowing all the forces of nature and their various modes of action that it would be unworthy…

— Pierre-Simon Laplace

“The darkest things of this world nestle inseparable from, and do not eclipse, its equally boundless graces and glories.”

— Brian Awehali

It is my hope that as the Negro plunges deeper into the quest for freedom and justice he will plunge even deeper…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

“It means that when organized philosophies like the Illuminati go out of existence, their symbols remain… available for adoption by other groups.…

— Dan Brown

“Pro Life’ or ‘Right to Life’ movement is misnamed. Those who protest against abortion but dine regularly on the bodies of chickens,…

— Peter Singer

“Life is an affair of mystery; shared with companions of music, dance and poetry.”

— Shah Asad Rizvi

I'm sure about my strategy and philosophy and methodology. But it is difficult because in football there is panic, the players sometimes…

— Paolo di Canio

All our science and philosophy form only an island of knowledge surrounded by an ocean of mystery. The larger the island grows,…

— Ralph Washington Sockman

“But you are good-natured princes, and you do not think it a bad thing that belief in the good God should constitute…

— Victor Hugo

Philosophy not only dissipates our anxieties, but it also arms us against the buffets of fortune.

— Vikrant Parsai