Philosophy Quotes

Humility is one of the best expressions of self respect.

~ Debasish Mridha

What progress, you ask, have I made? I have begun to be a friend to myself.

~ Seneca

When we suspect that we are appropriate targets for hurt, it does not take much for us to believe that someone or something is out to hurt us

~ Alain De Botton

All outdoors may be bedlam, provided there is no disturbance within.

~ Seneca

There is an easy way to measure our inner levels of abjectness and friendliness to ourselves: we should examine how well we response to noise.

~ Alain De Botton

...[T]he whole undertaking of philosophical inquiry requires a prior understanding of the conceptual system in which the undertaking is set. That is an empirical job for cognitive science and cognitive semantics. ... Unless this job is done, we will not know whether the answers philosophers give to their questions are a function of the conceptualization built into the questions themselves.

~ George Lakoff

I am a misanthrope, but exceedingly benevolent; I am very cranky, and am a super-idealist. ... I can digest philosophy better than food.

~ Alfred Nobel

My philosophy is it's none of my business what people say of me and think of me. I am what I am, and I do what I do. I expect nothing and accept everything. And it makes life so much easier.

~ Anthony Hopkins

What really went wrong is that General Motors has had this philosophy from the beginning that what's good for General Motors is good for the country. So, their attitude was, 'We'll build it and you buy it. We'll tell you what to buy. You just buy it.'

~ Michael Moore

I'm not a person who writes really abstract things with oblique references. I look at abstraction like I look at condiments. Give me some Tabasco sauce, some ketchup, some mayonnaise. I love all of that. Put it on a trumpet. I've just got to have the ketchup and Tabasco sauce. That's my attitude about musical philosophy.

~ Wynton Marsalis

'UFO's' attitude toward the subject is very similar to mine. It's not an advocacy; its philosophy is more 'I want to believe this, but I want it proved.'

~ Dwight Schultz

If philosophy is practice, a demand to know the manner in which its history is to be studied is entailed: a theoretical attitude toward it becomes real only in the living appropriation of its contents from the texts.

~ Karl Jaspers

My philosophy in life is, Decide what you want to do. You have to have something to hope for.

~ Lou Holtz

Science without respect for human life is degrading to us all and reflects a hollow and deceptive philosophy, a philosophy that we as a people should never condone.

~ Nathan Deal

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

The philosophy of protectionism is a philosophy of war.

~ Ludwig Von Mises

I preferred the weapons of dialectic to all the other teachings of philosophy, and armed with these, I chose the conflicts of disputation rather than the trophies of war.

~ Peter Abelard

I am at war... with the principal personage of traditional philosophy, that abstract subject who masquerades as everyone and anyone, but is really a male subject in disguise.

~ Pam Gems

Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.

~ Winston Churchill

Katie Price is no exception. She, too, is - in a distinctive way - a philosopher. Partially, Katie Price's philosophy is one of extraordinary confidence. She is remarkable not for her looks or antics but because of her tremendous self-assurance and her unwillingness to be intimidated by criticism or failure.

~ Alain De Botton

From cell phones to computers, quality is improving and costs are shrinking as companies fight to offer the public the best product at the best price. But this philosophy is sadly missing from our health-care insurance system.

~ John Shadegg

Bruce Lee was very famous. I watched his movies and he is amazing. He is a martial arts master, his philosophy, his movement, both physically and mentally, were very strong.

~ Jet Li

He who looks the higher is the more highly distinguished, and turning over the great book of nature (which is the proper object of philosophy) is the way to elevate one's gaze.

~ Galileo Galilei

You can be creative in anything - in math, science, engineering, philosophy - as much as you can in music or in painting or in dance.

~ Ken Robinson

Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don't know.

~ Bertrand Russell

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

~ George Bernard Shaw

Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art.

~ Will Durant

Sir Isaac Newton gave the extraterrestrials their biggest shot in the arm when he embraced the infinite universe as the basis for his hugely influential system of physics. Even so, the aliens of the early modern period remained creatures of philosophy rather than science.

~ Matthew Stewart

I don't think there's an interesting boundary between philosophy and science. Science is totally beholden to philosophy. There are philosophical assumptions in science and there's no way to get around that.

~ Sam Harris

My research career has been devoted to understanding human decision-making and problem-solving processes. The pursuit of this goal has led me into the fields of political science, economics, cognitive psychology, computer science and philosophy of science, among others.

~ Herbert A. Simon

Every day, I read books on philosophy and science fiction and human consciousness.

~ Tom Delonge

Philosophy is altogether less pure now. It's been impurified by science and social science and history.

~ Bernard Williams

History is Philosophy teaching by example.

~ Thucydides

Ronald Reagan was a president of strength. His philosophy was a philosophy of strength - a strong military, a strong economy and strong families.

~ Mitt Romney

I challenge anybody to say that I wouldn't know how to approach foreign policy because, unlike some of the other people, I at least have a foreign policy philosophy, which is an extension of the Reagan philosophy. Peace through strength, and my philosophy is peace through strength and clarity.

~ Herman Cain

Ordinary people seem not to realize that those who really apply themselves in the right way to philosophy are directly and of their own accord preparing themselves for dying and death.

~ Socrates

Our faith is stronger than death, our philosophy is firmer than flesh, and the spread of the Kingdom of God upon the earth is more sublime and more compelling.

~ Dorothy Day

Feminism is just an idea. It's a philosophy. It's about the equality of women in all realms. It's not about man-hating. It's not about being humorless. We have to let go of these misconceptions that have plagued feminism for 40, 50 years.

~ Roxane Gay

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.

~ Ludwig Van Beethoven

Reggae has a philosophy, you know? It's not just entertainment. There's an idea behind it, a way of life behind the music, which is a positive way of life, which is a progressive way of life for better people.

~ Ziggy Marley