Philosophy is the highest music.
The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.
The negative attitudes toward the genres - romance, science-fiction, westerns, suspense, etc. - are fallout from the academic world's long-standing fascination with existential philosophy and modern theories of psychology and sociology.
A new philosophy generally means in practice the praise of some old vice.
I stepped away to find out more about myself, which I was having difficulty doing as a football player. I got a chance to travel the world. I studied Eastern philosophy, and I've grown as a person so much.
I have two children. I have a daughter 29, and a daughter four. They are 25 years apart, so you speak about generations and I must tell you, I have a philosophy and that is every 25 years I'm going to sire another child.
I'd like to do policy and I'd like to do philosophy, I'd like to be able to get into the depth, into the meat of the argument - that's the kind of stuff I want to do.
My personal philosophy would be don't whine, don't let opportunities pass you by, be willing to work hard, and remember that you don't know as much as you think you do, ever.
There is no need for temples, no need for complicated philosophies. My brain and my heart are my temples; my philosophy is kindness.
The hunger for facile wisdom is the root of all false philosophy.
Any philosophy that can be put in a nutshell belongs there.
Drama is action, sir, action and not confounded philosophy.
History is the great dust-heap... a pageant and not a philosophy.
Maybe philosophy - I love talking about ideas. Or maybe art history. I was thinking about psychology, then I got really afraid because everybody says it's terribly boring.
I demonstrate by means of philosophy that the earth is round, and is inhabited on all sides; that it is insignificantly small, and is borne through the stars.
The basic philosophy of stoicism is that you have nothing real external to your own consciousness, that the only thing real is in fact your consciousness.
Philosophically considered, the universe is composed of Nature and the Soul. Strictly speaking, therefore, all that is separate from us, all which Philosophy distinguishes as the 'Not Me,' that is, both nature and art, all other men and my own body, must be ranked under this name, 'Nature.'
Buddhism has become a socially recognized religious philosophy for Americans, whereas it used to be considered an exotic religion.
People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind.
People who love soft methods and hate iniquity forget this; that reform consists in taking a bone from a dog. Philosophy will not do it.
Like the winds that we come we know not whence and blow whither soever they list, the forces of society are derived from an obscure and distant origin. They arise before the date of philosophy, from the instincts, not the speculations of men.
The first step towards philosophy is incredulity.
Leisure is the Mother of Philosophy.
Philosophy would render us entirely Pyrrhonian, were not nature too strong for it.
I love history, cultural and religious studies, philosophy, photography and traveling.
I am concerned, rather, that there should not be more things dreamt of in my philosophy than there actually are in heaven and earth.
History is Philosophy teaching by example.
He who has religion will speak poetry. But philosophy is the tool with which to seek and discover religion.
When God saved me, He gave me a thirst to learn and to read and to study. I thrived in college. I got a bachelor's degree in philosophy and then went to Reformed Theological Seminary in Orlando.
Whatever science and philosophy may do for mankind, the world can never outgrow its need of the simplicity that is in Christ.
It is an acknowledged truth in philosophy that a just theory will always be confirmed by experiment.
I was 15 years old at university, studying economics and philosophy, and I saw a retrospective of Australian film. They were very raw. 'Picnic at Hanging Rock,' 'Gallipoli;' they were fantastic.
I think philosophers can do things akin to theoretical scientists, in that, having read about empirical data, they too can think of what hypotheses and theories might account for that data. So there's a continuity between philosophy and science in that way.
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.
I envy those Hindus and Buddhists who have in their religion philosophy and ancestor worship which build in the believer a continuity with the past, and that most important ingredient in the building of a nation - memory.
The philosophy of protectionism is a philosophy of war.
