The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.
John Kenneth Galbraith

Art requires philosophy, just as philosophy requires art. Otherwise, what would become of beauty?
Paul Gauguin

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

But human experience is usually paradoxical, that means incongruous with the phrases of current talk or even current philosophy.
George Eliot

Making itself intelligible is suicide for philosophy.
Martin Heidegger

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.
Ludwig van Beethoven

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

Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art.
Will Durant

Evolution is a bankrupt speculative philosophy, not a scientific fact. Only a spiritually bankrupt society could ever believe it. Only atheists could accept this Satanic theory.
Jimmy Swaggart

Truth in philosophy means that concept and external reality correspond.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

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

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

Leisure is the Mother of Philosophy.
Thomas Hobbes

One may summon his philosophy when they are beaten in battle, not till then.
John Burroughs

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

It's clear to me that there is no good reason for many philosophy books to sound as complicated as they do.
Alain de Botton

I very rarely read any fiction. I love biographies; I read about all kinds of people. I love theology and some philosophy.
Al Sharpton

And new Philosophy calls all in doubt, the element of fire is quite put out; the Sun is lost, and the earth, and no mans wit can well direct him where to look for it.
John Donne

"Freedom from fear" could be said to sum up the whole philosophy of human rights.
Dag Hammarskjold

The chief benefit, which results from philosophy, arises in an indirect manner, and proceeds more from its secret, insensible influence, than from its immediate application.
David Hume