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 foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little
statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul
has simply nothing to do.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
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 philosopher always knows what to do until it happens to him.
-Unattributed
A philosopher is a person who doesn't care which side his bread is
buttered on; he knows he eats both sides anyway.
-Dr. Joyce
Brothers
A philosopher told me that, having examined the civil and political
order of societies, he now studied nothing except the savages in the
books of explorers, and children in everyday life.
-Nicolas
Chamfort
A philosophy is characterized more by the formulation of its problems
than by its solution of them.
-Suzanne K. Langer
All philosophy lies in two words: sustain and abstain.
-Epictetus
All religions are equally sublime to the ignorant, useful to the
politician, and ridiculous to the philosopher.
-Lucretius
Any philosophy that can be put in a nutshell belongs there.
-Sydney
J. Harris
Be a philosopher; but, amidst all your philosophy, be still a man.
-David
Hume
Christianity started out in Palestine as a fellowship. Then it moved to
Greece and became a philosophy, then it went to Rome and became an
institution, and then it went to Europe and became a government. Finally
it came to America where we made it an enterprise.
-Richard
Halverson
Consistency is a virtue for trains: what we want from a philosopher is
insights, whether he comes by them consistently or not.
-Stephen
Vizinczey
Dogs and philosophers do the greatest good and get the fewest rewards.
-Diogenes
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
Faith and philosophy are air, but events are brass.
-Pierre
Melville
Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no
survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to
survival.
-C.S. Lewis
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
He was a dreamer, a thinker, a speculative philosopher... or, as his
wife would have it, an idiot.
-Douglas Adams
History is Philosophy teaching by examples.
-Thucydides
I am driven by two main philosophies, know more today about the world
than I knew yesterday. And along the way, lessen the suffering of
others. You'd be surprised how far that gets you.
-Neil deGrasse
Tyson
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 must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study
mathematics and philosophy.
-John Adams
I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain.
-Carol
Leifer
If the American Atheists Society or Saddam Hussein himself ever sent an
unrestricted gift to any of my ministries, be assured I will operate on
Billy Sunday's philosophy: The Devil's had it long enough, and quickly
cash the check.
-Jerry Falwell
If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have
learned women.
-Abigail Adams
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
In the very books in which philosophers bid us scorn fame, they inscribe
their names.
-Marcus Tullius Cicero
It is a function of government to invent philosophies to explain the
demands of its own convenience.
-Murray Kempton
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
My own philosophy is if you're not having sex, you're finished.
-Helen
Gurley Brown
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
My view is that if your philosophy is not unsettled daily then you are
blind to all the universe has to offer.
-Neil deGrasse Tyson
Nothing is more dangerous to reason than the flights of the imagination,
and nothing has been the occasion of more mistakes among philosophers.
-David
Hume
Of course I believe that solipsism is the correct philosophy, but that's
only one man's opinion.
-Melvin Fitting
One cannot conceive anything so strange and so implausible that it has
not already been said by one philosopher or another.
-René
Descartes
One of the strangest delusions of the Western mind is to the effect that
a philosophy of profound wisdom is on tap in the East.
-H.L.
Mencken
Philosophers say a great deal about what is absolutely necessary for
science, and it is always, so far as one can see, rather naive, and
probably wrong.
-Richard P. Feynman
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 to the real world as masturbation is to sex.
-Karl
Marx
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.
-Neil deGrasse Tyson
Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don't know.
-Bertrand
Russell
Secular humanism is avowedly non-religious. It is a eupraxsophy (good
practical wisdom), which draws its basic principles and ethical values
from science, ethics, and philosophy.
-Paul Kurtz
Stripped of ethical rationalizations and philosophical pretensions, a
crime is anything that a group in power chooses to prohibit.
-Freda
Adler
That's why it's always worth having a few philosophers around the place.
One minute it's all Is Truth Beauty and Is Beauty Truth, and Does a
Falling Tree in the Forest Make a Sound if There's No One There to Hear
It, and then just when you think they're going to start dribbling one of
'em says, "Incidentally, putting a thirty-foot parabolic reflector on a
high place to shoot the rays of the sun at an enemy's ships would be a
very interesting demonstration of optical principles."
-Terry
Pratchett
The business of the philosopher is well done if he succeeds in raising
genuine doubts.
-Morris Raphael Cohen
The highest point of philosophy is to be both wise and simple; this is
the angelic life.
-John Chrysotom
The men who are not interested in philosophy need it the most urgently;
they are the most helplessly in its power.
-Ayn Rand
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 purpose of a liberal education is to make you philosophical enough
to accept the fact that you will never make much money.
-Unattributed
The real question of government versus private enterprise is argued on
too philosophical and abstract a basis. Theoretically, planning may be
good. But nobody has ever figured out the cause of government stupidity
and until they do (and find the cure) all ideal plans will fall into
quicksand.
-Richard P. Feynman
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 is no heresy or no philosophy which is so abhorrent to the church
as a human being.
-James Joyce
There is no record in human history of a happy philosopher.
-H.L.
Mencken
There is nothing so absurd that some philosopher has not said it.
-Marcus
Tullius Cicero
There is only one thing that a philosopher can be relied on to do, and
that is, to contradict other philosophers.
-William James
There's a difference between a philosophy and a bumper sticker.
-Charles
M. Schulz
To choose doubt as a philosophy of life is akin to choosing immobility
as a means of transportation. (Life of Pi)
-Yann Martel
We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts,
foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation
that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an
open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.
-John F.
Kennedy
We live in a world in which politics has replaced philosophy.
-Martin
L. Gross
When philosophers try to be politicians they generally cease to be
philosophers.
-Walter Lippmann
While it is very sturdy of comfortable men to point out that life is
unfair, the people it is unfair to are not apt to be morally or
philosophically elevated by the announcement.
-Russell Baker
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