Philosophy Quotes

The best music happens when you have a personal connection to it. That same philosophy can extend to the instrument you hold in your hands: if a guitar means something special, you're bound to do great things with it.

~ Frank Iero

Music is one of those things that is constantly going in my head all the time. It's sort of like the evolution and creation of doing food, or my philosophy about wine. It's always beating in my head, so it keeps the spirit moving.

~ Emeril Lagasse

In the information age, you don't teach philosophy as they did after feudalism. You perform it. If Aristotle were alive today he'd have a talk show.

~ Timothy Leary

To teach how to live without certainty and yet without being paralysed by hesitation is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy, in our age, can do for those who study it.

~ Bertrand Russell

Problems or successes, they all are the results of our own actions. Karma. The philosophy of action is that no one else is the giver of peace or happiness. One's own karma, one's own actions are responsible to come to bring either happiness or success or whatever.

~ Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

Life does not agree with philosophy: There is no happiness that is not idleness, and only what is useless is pleasurable.

~ Anton Chekhov

In the morning, I use a Philosophy cleanser and Olay Regenerist Daily 3 Point Treatment Cream, which sinks in well and feels firming. I rarely wear foundation, so cotton wool soaked in warm water is often enough to cleanse at night, but I take off eye make-up with Klorane's cornflower-infused remover.

~ Saffron Aldridge

Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language.

~ Ludwig Wittgenstein

My philosophy is my learning process. Until you die, you must evolve and improve.

~ Miyavi

I am a misanthrope and yet utterly benevolent, have more than one screw loose yet am a super-idealist who digests philosophy more efficiently than food.

~ Alfred Nobel

Roast beef, medium, is not only a food. It is a philosophy.

~ Edna Ferber

There is no need for temples, no need for complicated philosophies. My brain and my heart are my temples; my philosophy is kindness.

~ Dalai Lama

I almost got a psychology degree, I almost got a philosophy degree. I kept changing it so they couldn't make me graduate. I studied anthropology and eastern religion, epistomology, and astronomy... I took every interesting course I could find for nine years.

~ Patrick Rothfuss

What we have done, the result of that comes to us whenever it comes, either today, tomorrow, hundred years later, hundred lives later, whatever, whatever. And so, it's our own karma. That is why that philosophy in every religion: Killing is sin. Killing is sin in every religion.

~ Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

Religion is doing; a man does not merely think his religion or feel it, he lives his religion as much as he is able, otherwise it is not religion but fantasy or philosophy.

~ George Gurdjieff

There is no religion in which everyday life is not considered a prison there is no philosophy or ideology that does not think that we live in alienation.

~ Eugène Ionesco

Religion and philosophy are to be preserved distinct. We are not to introduce divine revelations into philosophy, nor philosophical opinions into religion.

~ Isaac Newton

When I was a student, I studied philosophy and religion. I talked about being patient. Some people say I was too hopeful, too optimistic, but you have to be optimistic just in keeping with the philosophy of non-violence.

~ John Lewis

My philosophy is to do the best you can for somebody. Help. It's not just what do you for yourself. It's how you treat people decently. The golden rule. There isn't big anything better than the golden rule. It's in every major religion in one language or another.

~ Art Linkletter

He who has religion will speak poetry. But philosophy is the tool with which to seek and discover religion.

~ Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Religion and philosophy, philosophy and religion - they're two words which are both... different. In spelling.

~ Eddie Izzard

Without philosophy man cannot know what he makes without religion he cannot know why.

~ Eric Gill

My philosophy is that not only are you responsible for your life, but doing the best at this moment puts you I the best place for the next moment.

~ Oprah Winfrey

My philosophy is: Life is hard, but God is good. Try not to confuse the two.

~ Anne F. Beiler

Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy.

~ Margaret Thatcher

History should be written as philosophy.

~ Voltaire

The Gospel is not a theory the Gospel is not a philosophy or an idea the Gospel is not a way of thinking or feeling. The Gospel is an event in history.

~ John Piper

Philosophy of science without history of science is empty history of science without philosophy of science is blind.

~ Imre Lakatos

The study of history and philosophy, accompanied by some acquaintance with art and literature, should be for lawyers and engineers as well as for those who study in arts faculties.

~ Terry Eagleton

Skepticism is a virtue in history as well as in philosophy.

~ Napoléon Bonaparte

As every student in Philosophy 101 learns, nothing can force me to believe that anyone except me is conscious. This power to deny that other people have feelings is not just an academic exercise but an all-too-common vice, as we see in the long history of human cruelty.

~ Steven Pinker

There will be no end to the troubles of states, or of humanity itself, till philosophers become kings in this world, or till those we now call kings and rulers really and truly become philosophers, and political power and philosophy thus come into the same hands.

~ Plato

Words, without power, is mere philosophy.

~ Muhammad Iqbal

For my own part, I would rather excel in knowledge of the highest secrets of philosophy than in arms.

~ Alexander The Great

The history of thought, of knowledge, of philosophy, of literature seems to be seeking, and discovering, more and more discontinuities, whereas history itself appears to be abandoning the irruption of events in favor of stable structures.

~ Michel Foucault

Dogmatism and skepticism are both, in a sense, absolute philosophies; one is certain of knowing, the other of not knowing. What philosophy should dissipate is certainty, whether of knowledge or ignorance.

~ Bertrand Russell

There is no philosophy which is not founded upon knowledge of the phenomena, but to get any profit from this knowledge it is absolutely necessary to be a mathematician.

~ Daniel Bernoulli

What does mysticism really mean? It means the way to attain knowledge. It's close to philosophy, except in philosophy you go horizontally while in mysticism you go vertically.

~ Elie Wiesel

Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.

~ Will Durant

My fundamental philosophy is that you owe it to society to transfer to them any knowledge you have that might be useful.

~ Leroy Hood