Philosophy Quotes

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If an angel were to tell us about his philosophy, I believe many of his statements might well sound like '2 x 2= 13'. — Georg C. Lichtenberg
It's always been my philosophy: Turn the page. If something falls through, turn the page. It's over with, get used to it, get on with… — Merv Griffin
Roosevelt's humor was broad, his manner friendly. Of wit there was little; of philosophy, none. What did he possess? Intuition, inspiration, love of adventure. — Emanuel Celler
I hope life isn't a big joke, because I don't get it. — Jack Handey
I don't discuss basketball. I dictate basketball. I'm not interested in philosophy classes. — Al McGuire
My philosophy is that you can't motivate players with speeches, you have motivated players that you draft. That's where they come in and those are… — Phil Jackson
He seems the incarnation of everything soft and silky and velvety, without a sharp edge in his composition, a dreamer whose philosophy is sleep and… — Hector Hugh Munro
Young people are thoughtless as a rule. — Homer
Philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes. — Eleanor Roosevelt
I'm a philosophy major. That means I can think deep thoughts about being unemployed. — Bruce Lee
Now if I do anything it is to tune souls instead of instruments. To harmonize people instead of notes. If there is anything in my… — Hazrat Inayat Khan
There is but one philosophy and its name is fortitude! To bear is to conquer our fate. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
I think that consciousness has always been the most important topic in the philosophy of mind, and one of the most important topics in cognitive… — David Chalmers
As in Mathematicks, so in Natural Philosophy, the Investigation of difficult Things by the Method of Analysis, ought ever to precede the Method of Composition.… — Isaac Newton
If we consider what science already has enabled men to know-the immensity of space, the fantastic philosophy of the stars, the infinite smallness of the… — Guglielmo Marconi
That the universe was formed by a fortuitous concourse of atoms, I will no more believe than that the accidental jumbling of the alphabet would… — Jonathan Swift
Philosophy is the product of wonder. — Alfred North Whitehead
Education is not a discipline at all. Half vocational, half emptiness dressed up in garments borrowed from philosophy, psychology, literature. — Edward Blishen
Philosophy is not a theory but an activity. — Ludwig Wittgenstein
A hidden connection is stronger than an obvious one. — Heraclitus
Sir Hiram Maxim is a genuine and typical example of the man of science, romantic, excitable, full of real but somewhat obvious poetry, a little… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
The most effective way I know to begin with the end in mind is to develop a personal mission statement or philosophy or creed. It… — Stephen Covey
If you do not love yourself, well, you cannot do anything well, that's my philosophy. — Nawal El Saadawi
There was an awful rainbow once in heaven: We know her woof, her texture; she is given In the dull catalogue of common things. Philosophy… — John Keats
Philosophy means the complete liberty of the mind, and therefore independence of all social, political or religious prejudice... It loves one thing only... truth. — Henri Frederic Amiel

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