Philosophy is properly home-sickness; the wish to be everywhere at home.
If you've got unemployment, low pay, that was just too bad. But that was the system. That was the sort of economy and philosophy against which I was fighting in the 1930s.
The only one that seems to be able to hold the business is Disney. They do it is because they have a fabulous philosophy about marketing- but even they wavered.
Making itself intelligible is suicide for philosophy.
My favourite author is Leon Trotsky - the political philosophy and the way he writes is beautiful, and really relevant, too.
When we say that Philosophy tries to clear up the meanings of concepts we do not mean that it is simply concerned to substitute some long phrase for some familiar word.
However, while the Nazi barbarians and their collaborators threatened the entire world, I could not accept his philosophy and, after several earlier attempts, was finally accepted into the Canadian Infantry Corps during the last year of World War II.
Christianity is not a theory or speculation, but a life; not a philosophy of life, but a life and a living process.
I don't believe in quotas. America was founded on a philosophy of individual rights, not group rights.
I mean, we are tribal by nature, and sometimes success and material wealth can divide and separate - it's not a new philosophy I'm sharing - more than hardship, hardship tends to unify.
Wonder is the feeling of the philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.
I lived for two years in an abandoned gas station with no running water and no electricity after my parents got divorced and my stepdad couldn't get a job. So I think a lot about families like mine who were middle class and struggled. So that experience really drives my philosophy.
It has generally been assumed that of two opposing systems of philosophy, e.g., realism and idealism, one only can be true and one must be false; and so philosophers have been hopelessly divided on the question, which is the true one.
What I mean by photographing as a participant rather than observer is that I'm not only involved directly with some of the activities that I photograph, such as mountain climbing, but even when I'm not I have the philosophy that my mind and body are part of the natural world.
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.
To sum up the whole, we should say that the aim of the Platonic philosophy was to exalt man into a god.
Indeed heresies are themselves instigated by philosophy.
Barack Obama is an elegant and literate man with a cosmopolitan sense of the world. He is widely read in philosophy, literature, and history - as befits a former law professor - and he has shown time and again a surprising interest in contemporary fiction.
Philosophy, most broadly viewed, is the critical survey of existence from the standpoint of value.
There's this lingering philosophy that movie stars shouldn't do TV.
I have a simple philosophy: Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. Scratch where it itches.
Virtually the only subject in which one could ever get a scholarship to Oxford or Cambridge was classics. So I went to Oxford to study classics and, unlike Cambridge, it had a philosophy component, and I became completely transported by it.
Our philosophy is to attract top talent and incentivise them to succeed. We have some of the top talent in the entire industry.
For scholars and laymen alike it is not philosophy but active experience in mathematics itself that can alone answer the question: What is mathematics?
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.
Conversation may be compared to a lyre with seven chords - philosophy, art, poetry, love, scandal, and the weather.
My philosophy as a filmmaker is to inform and entertain at the same time. And when I went away from documentaries into miniseries like 'Roots,' I did the reverse. Instead of just entertaining, I want to inform at the same time.
In equities, you price the risk. As far as debt is concerned, if the markets get more sophisticated where, for the levels of risks that you take, you get the debt returns, we will certainly look at it. It's back to a philosophy of risk-adjusted returns.
For me, it all begins with faith; it begins with what matters most, and I try and put what I believe to be moral truth first. My philosophy of government second. And my politics third.
My philosophy? Simplicity plus variety.
I have a very simple philosophy when it comes to casting, and it really is casting the best person for the role.
Philosophy is a kind of journey, ever learning yet never arriving at the ideal perfection of truth.
My philosophy is that when I go out of my room, I'm prepared to love everybody I meet, unless they're bad.
All philosophy lies in two words, sustain and abstain.
With honesty of purpose, balance, a respect for tradition, courage, and, above all, a philosophy of life, any young person who embraces the historical profession will find it rich in rewards and durable in satisfaction.
The service of philosophy, of speculative culture, towards the human spirit, is to rouse, to startle it to a life of constant and eager observation.
