Philosophy Quotes

I just want to be healthy and happy. I don't want to hurt anybody or make them mad. If that's a philosophy then that's my philosophy.
Chad Michael Murray

Happy, Hurt, Mad

My philosophy of leadership is to surround myself with good people who have ability, judgment and knowledge, but above all, a passion for service.
Sonny Perdue

Leadership, Good, Knowledge

Generally speaking, the errors in religion are dangerous; those in philosophy only ridiculous.
David Hume

Religion, Dangerous, Ridiculous

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

Knowledge, Science, Wisdom

When truth has no burning, then it is philosophy, when it gets burning from the heart, it becomes poetry.
Muhammad Iqbal

Truth, Poetry, Heart

My mother is probably the wisest person I've ever known. She's not schooled, she's not well read. But she has a philosophy of life that makes well-read people seem like morons.
Gene Simmons

Life, Mother, Person

My philosophy of dating is to just fart right away.
Jenny McCarthy

Dating, Away, Fart

We do not learn by inference and deduction and the application of mathematics to philosophy, but by direct intercourse and sympathy.
Richard M. Nixon

Sympathy, Learn, Direct

There are three modes of bearing the ills of life, by indifference, by philosophy, and by religion.
Charles Caleb Colton

Life, Religion, Three

Hope founded upon a human being, a man-made philosophy or any institution is always misplaced... because these things are unreliable and fleeting.
Charles Stanley

Hope, Human, Founded

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

Life, Society, Whether

The whole philosophy of modern times is to dissolve distinctions between individuals and deal with them as large collections of people. It's essentially self-interested on the part of authority.
Tom Stoppard

Between, Whole, Times

I decided to teach because I think that any person who studies philosophy has to be involved actively.
Angela Davis

Person, Teach, Involved

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

Battle, Against, Means

What is your aim in philosophy? To show the fly the way out of the fly-bottle.
Ludwig Wittgenstein

I'm working harder than ever now, and I'm putting on my pants the same as I always have. I just get up every day and try to do a little better than the day before, and that is to run a great restaurant with great food, great wine, and great service. That's my philosophy.
Emeril Lagasse

Great, Food, Before

One of the great questions of philosophy is, do we innately have morality, or do we get it from celestial dictation? A study of the Ten Commandments is a very good way of getting into and resolving that issue.
Christopher Hitchens

Good, Great, Study

The philosophy behind much advertising is based on the old observation that every man is really two men - the man he is and the man he wants to be.
William Feather

If you open your heart, then the object of your love becomes so precious because you are so open. And that philosophy, that caring, spreads.
Jeff Bridges

Love, Heart, Caring

The only thing Martha and I have in common is that we both used to model. Martha Stewart is extremely talented. Her designs are picture perfect. Our philosophy is life is messy, and rather than being afraid of those messes we design products that work the way we live.
Kathy Ireland

Life, Work, Design

Every now and then, President Obama sorta drops his veil. He's less coy about his philosophy, he sort of reveals his true governing philosophy, what he really believes.
Paul Ryan

True, Less, President

Ayurveda is a sister philosophy to yoga. It is the science of life or longevity and it teaches about the power and the cycles of nature, as well as the elements.
Christy Turlington

Life, Nature, Power

Philosophy is a kind of journey, ever learning yet never arriving at the ideal perfection of truth.
Albert Pike

Truth, Learning, Perfection

It's a philosophy of life. A practice. If you do this, something will change, what will change is that you will change, your life will change, and if you can change you, you can perhaps change the world.
Vivienne Westwood

Life, Change, Practice

The word philosophy sounds high-minded, but it simply means the love of wisdom. If you love something, you don't just read about it; you hug it, you mess with it, you play with it, you argue with it.
Hugh Jackman

Love, Wisdom, Play

History is Philosophy teaching by example.
Thucydides

History, Example, Teaching

In philosophy, it is not the attainment of the goal that matters, it is the things that are met with by the way.
Havelock Ellis

Goal, Matters, Attainment

They declaim against the passions without bothering to think that it is from their flame philosophy lights its torch.
Marquis de Sade

Against, Flame, Lights

I learned much more about acting from philosophy courses, psychology courses, history and anthropology than I ever learned in acting class.
Tim Robbins

History, Learned, Acting

No one's policing their own minds more than an author. You spend a lot of time in your own head analysing what you think about things, and a philosophy comes.
Terry Pratchett

Time, Minds, Head

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