Philosophy Quotes

Champions invariably have fervent philosophical beliefs. Philosophy, in its simplest terms, means 'the love of wisdom.'

~ Zig Ziglar

Rightly defined philosophy is simply the love of wisdom.

~ Marcus Tullius Cicero

I'm not an academic philosopher, and don't agree with the way the universities approach the subject. I'm a philosopher only in the very loose sense of someone interested in wisdom and well-being attained through reason. But I'm as interested in psychoanalysis and art as I am in philosophy.

~ Alain De Botton

The hunger for facile wisdom is the root of all false philosophy.

~ George Santayana

'Focusing' is no conventional repackaging of self-help wisdom. It is at once a manual and a philosophy. It talks about the body's wisdom, the steps of the focusing technique, how to discover the richness in others by learning to listen.

~ Marilyn Ferguson

A Republican philosophy goes something like this: If you take your car to the mechanic, and instead of fixing it, they take out the engine and charge you an arm and a leg, you should conclude that mechanics can't fix cars and you should probably just take yours to the junkyard and sell it for scrap metal.

~ Keith Ellison

The real discovery is the one which enables me to stop doing philosophy when I want to. The one that gives philosophy peace, so that it is no longer tormented by questions which bring itself into question.

~ Ludwig Wittgenstein

I have a personal philosophy in life: If somebody else can do something that I'm doing, they should do it. And what I want to do is find things that would represent a unique contribution to the world - the contribution that only I, and my portfolio of talents, can make happen. Those are my priorities in life.

~ Neil Degrasse Tyson

I have a simple philosophy: Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. Scratch where it itches.

~ Alice Roosevelt Longworth

I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business.

~ Henry David Thoreau

In much of computer science, I can easily 'auto-grade' your work and give you an instant meaningful feedback. I can't do this when it comes to the subtlety of human thought, language, poetry, philosophy.

~ Sebastian Thrun

One has only as much morality as one has philosophy and poetry.

~ Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

It's almost like a lot of black people in America, a lot of young black men, are born with this cloud over their heads. It's their penitentiary cloud, this philosophy we all have, that it's harder for us.

~ Erykah Badu

As a system of philosophy it is not like the Tower of Babel, so daring its high aim as to seek a shelter against God's anger; but it is like a pyramid poised on its apex.

~ Adam Sedgwick

I am certain no one sets out to be cruel, but our treatment of the elderly ill seems to have no philosophy to it. As a society, we should establish whether we have a policy of life at any cost.

~ Terry Pratchett

The most interesting legal philosophy is German, so naturally I went to Germany, particularly to Berlin, quite a bit.

~ Philip Kerr

I am a sworn atheist and therefore from my point of view the Talmud or the Koran don't constitute works of political philosophy but rather writings that stand in utter contradiction to concepts like logic, freedom, feminism, secularism, brotherhood - which are my ideals.

~ Michel Onfray

Ruby inherited the Perl philosophy of having more than one way to do the same thing. I inherited that philosophy from Larry Wall, who is my hero actually. I want to make Ruby users free. I want to give them the freedom to choose.

~ Yukihiro Matsumoto

Grounded in the natural philosophy of the Middle Ages, alchemy formed a bridge: on the one hand into the past, to Gnosticism, and on the other into the future, to the modern psychology of the unconscious.

~ Carl Jung

We must strive to encourage East and West not only to move towards each other but also to encourage them to find a new philosophy, a philosophy which will serve as a tool determining the future of Planet Earth - our common and only shelter.

~ Nursultan Nazarbayev

My philosophy is to take one day at a time. I don't worry about the future. Tomorrow is even out of sight for me.

~ Bobby Darin

My philosophy is really based on humility. I don't think we know enough to fix either diagnostics or therapeutics. The future of psychiatry is clinical neuroscience, based on a much deeper understanding of the brain.

~ Thomas R. Insel

My philosophy is I'm raising future adults, not children.

~ Usher

Philosophy finds it an easy matter to vanquish past and future evils, but the present are commonly too hard for it.

~ François De La Rochefoucauld