If I can't find a project that I'm really interested in, I'll just go back to college where I've been studying art history and French. I'm also going to study English and philosophy - the whole curriculum!
I find purer philosophy in a Poem than in a Conclusion of Geometry, a chemical analysis, or a physical law.
Parent hard, play hard. That's my philosophy.
The very essence of political philosophy is the carving out of an ethical system - strictly, a subset of ethics dealing with political ethics. Ethics is the one rational discipline that demands the establishment of a rational set of value judgments; political ethics is that subset applying to matters of State.
Generally speaking, the errors in religion are dangerous; those in philosophy only ridiculous.
Philosophy and Art both render the invisible visible by imagination.
'I know this is going to end bad, but I'm going to pretend it's going to end good.' My life's philosophy.
Do all the work you can; that is the whole philosophy of the good way of life.
It should now be clear why the method of Philosophy is so different from that of the natural sciences. Experiments are not made, because they would be utterly useless.
Everyone should have a philosophy for living better.
I've always said fantasy is sort of 'stealth philosophy'.
The present basic philosophy is nuclear deterrence.
At the present moment, the security of coherent philosophy, which existed from Parmenides to Hegel, is lost.
Like most people of my generation, I fell in love with the philosophy of existentialism.
I'm big into social studies, the humanities. I really love history and world issues and philosophy and law.
Philosophy: Impersonal anxiety; refuge among anemic ideas.
It is absolutely bedrock to the British Army's philosophy that a commanding officer is responsible for what goes on within his command.
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.
Philosophy is not just about talking or lecturing or even reading long, dense books. In fact, it is something men and women of action use - and have used throughout history - to solve their problems and achieve their greatest triumphs. Not in the classroom but on the battlefield, in the forum, and at court.
We have the tools, but we have to learn how to use them. That is my political philosophy.
But it is the province of religion, of philosophy, of pure poetry only, to go beyond life, beyond time, into eternity.
For every Book of Job, there's a Book of Leviticus, featuring some of the most boring prose ever written. But if you were stranded on a desert island, what book would better reward long study? And has there ever been a more beautiful distillation of existential philosophy than the Book of Ecclesiastes?
What humanity needs today is not merely philosophy or theology, but a message or reassurance.
To become a popular religion, it is only necessary for a superstition to enslave a philosophy.
Without philosophy man cannot know what he makes; without religion he cannot know why.
Human knowledge is dark and uncertain; philosophy is dark, astrology is dark, and geometry is dark.
My philosophy is to be me.
The true function of philosophy is to educate us in the principles of reasoning and not to put an end to further reasoning by the introduction of fixed conclusions.
I think that consciousness has always been the most important topic in the philosophy of mind, and one of the most important topics in cognitive science as a whole, but it had been surprisingly neglected in recent years.
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.
If philosophy is practice, a demand to know the manner in which its history is to be studied is entailed: a theoretical attitude toward it becomes real only in the living appropriation of its contents from the texts.
There's a difference between a philosophy and a bumper sticker.
We said we would leave no stone unturned to get to Germany and now we are applying the same philosophy towards our tournament preparations.
I'd been studying philosophy at the University of Chicago. I hadn't been doing well, because I was sitting in with jazz musicians at night - it's hard to read Heidegger, but it's especially hard if you're half asleep.
My dad had this philosophy that if you tell children they're beautiful and wonderful then they believe it, and they will be. So I never thought I was unattractive. But I was never one of the girls at school who had lots of boyfriends.
But the need for conflict to expose prejudice and unclear reasoning, which is deeply embedded in my philosophy of science, has its origin in these debates.
