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A bottle of wine contains more philosophy than all the books in the
world.
-Louis Pasteur
A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition,
and art into pedantry. Hence University education.
-George Bernard
Shaw
A little philosophy makes a man an Atheist: a great deal converts him to
religion.
-David Hume
A new philosophy generally means in practice the praise of some old vice.
-G.K.
Chesterton
A philosophy is characterized more by the formulation of its problems
than by its solution of them.
-Suzanne K. Langer
About no subject is there less philosophizing than about philosophy.
-Karl
Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
All philosophy lies in two words: sustain and abstain.
-Epictetus
Any genuine philosophy leads to action and from action back again to
wonder, to the enduring fact of mystery.
-Henry Miller
Any philosophy that can be put in a nutshell belongs there.
-Sydney
J. Harris
Any religion or philosophy which is not based on a respect for life is
not a true religion or philosophy.
-Albert Schweitzer
Aphorisms are the true form of the universal philosophy.
-Karl
Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
Astonishment is the root of philosophy.
-Paul Tillich
Considered subjectively, philosophy always begins in the middle, like an
epic poem.
-Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
Doing something stupid once is just plain stupid. Doing something stupid
twice is a philosophy.
-Dan O'Neill
Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy.
-Margaret
Thatcher
Generally speaking, the errors in religion are dangerous; those in
philosophy only ridiculous.
-David Hume
Good philosophy must exist, if for no other reason, because bad
philosophy needs to be answered.
-C.S. Lewis
History is Philosophy teaching by examples.
-Thucydides
I have a new philosophy. I'm only going to dread one day at a time. (In
the comic strip Peanuts)
-Charles M. Schulz
I have a simple philosophy. Fill what's empty. Empty what's full.
Scratch where it itches.
-Alice Roosevelt Longworth
I think a little philosophy should be added to life and art by way of
seasoning, but to make it one's specialty seems to me as strange as
eating nothing but horseradish.
-Boris Pasternak
I think the Greeks invented sports as an antidote to philosophy. In
sports there are absolute rules. It's not, What about this? What about
that? Either you're safe or you're out. It's ten yards or it's not. It's
in the hoop or out of the hoop. It's certain.
-Jack Nicholson
In metaphysics, the notion that earth and all that's on it is a mental
construct is the product of people who spend their lives inside rooms.
It is an indoor philosophy.
-Edward Abbey
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
Leisure is the mother of philosophy.
-Thomas Hobbes
Libertarians secretly worried that ultimately someone will figure out
the whole of their political philosophy boils down to 'get off my
property.' News flash: This is not really a big secret to the rest of us.
-John
Scalzi
Moral philosophy is nothing else but the science of what is good, and
evil, in the conversation, and society of mankind. Good, and evil, are
names that signify our appetites, and aversions; which in different
tempers, customs, and doctrines of men, are different.
-Thomas
Hobbes
My philosophy of life can be summed up in four words: It can't be helped.
-Will
Cuppy
My studies in Speculative philosophy, metaphysics, and science are all
summed up in the image of a mouse called man running in and out of every
hole in the Cosmos hunting for the Absolute Cheese.
-Benjamin
DeCasseres
No philosophy based on an incorrect view of the nature of man is likely
to produce social good.
-Stanley Kubrick
Of course I believe that solipsism is the correct philosophy, but that's
only one man's opinion.
-Melvin Fitting
Optimism is a philosophy based on the belief that basically life is
good, that, in the long run, the good in life overbalances the evil.
-Norman
Vincent Peale
People look for morals in fiction because there has always been a
confusion between fiction and philosophy.
-John Cheever
Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by
means of our language.
-Ludwig Wittgenstein
Philosophy is an unusually ingenious attempt to think fallaciously.
-Bertrand
Russell
Philosophy is empty if it isn't based on science. Science discovers,
philosophy interprets.
-Albert Einstein
Philosophy is questions that may never be answered. Religion is answers
that may never be questioned.
-Unattributed
Philosophy is the microscope of thought. Everything desires to flee from
it, but nothing escapes it.
-Victor Hugo
Philosophy! Empty thinking by ignorant conceited men who think they can
digest without eating!
-Iris Murdoch
Philosophy! The lumber of the schools.
-Jonathan Swift
Religion ends and philosophy begins, just as alchemy ends and chemistry
begins and astrology ends, and astronomy begins.
-Christopher
Hitchens
Science is a philosophy of discovery. Intelligent design is a philosophy
of ignorance. You cannot build a program of discovery on the assumption
that nobody is smart enough to figure out the answer to a problem.
-Neil
deGrasse Tyson
Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don't know.
-Bertrand
Russell
The chief error in philosophy is overstatement.
-Alfred North
Whitehead
The difficulty in philosophy is to say no more than we know.
-Ludwig
Wittgenstein
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
The society that scorns excellence in plumbing because plumbing is a
humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an
exalted activity will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy.
Neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water.
-John Gardner
There is but one truly serious philosophical problem, and that is
suicide. Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to
answering the fundamental question of philosophy.
-Albert Camus
There's a difference between a philosophy and a bumper sticker.
-Charles
M. Schulz
To argue with a man who has renounced the use and authority of reason,
and whose philosophy consists in holding humanity in contempt, is like
administering medicine to the dead, or endeavoring to convert an atheist
by scripture.
-Thomas Paine
To become a popular religion, it is only necessary for a superstition to
enslave a philosophy.
-William R. Inge
To choose doubt as a philosophy of life is akin to choosing immobility as a means of transportation.
(Life of Pi)
-Yann Martel
We live in a world in which politics has replaced philosophy.
-Martin
L. Gross
What does mysticism really mean? It means the way to attain knowledge.
It's close to philosophy, except in philosophy you go horizontally while
in mysticism you go vertically.
-Elie Wiesel
When lost in a forest go always down hill. When lost in a philosophy or
doctrine go upward.
-Ambrose Bierce
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(August 23 is also the birthday of Arnold J. Toynbee and Will Cuppy.)
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