Philosophy Quotes (1279 Quotes)

Aristotle suggests that the rotating Earth was a generally accepted tenet of Pythagorism 'While most of those who hold that the whole heaven is finite say that the earth lies at the center, the philosophers of Italy, the so-called Pythagoreans, assert the contrary. They say that in the middle there is fire, and that the earth is one of the stars, and by its circular motion round the center produces night and day.'

It's a huge change in philosophy. But (City Manager Anita Favors Thompson) has given me clear marching orders Make this a world-class shelter and all that entails.

So I think one can say on empirical grounds - not because of some philosophical principle - that you can't have democracy unless you have a market economy.

King in Crimson is actually an alchemical term. King Crimson is a metaphor for Devil or Satan, but at the same time it's also a metaphor for one of the statures in the purification of man and the purification of mankind soul towards union with God and with Infinite, which is the philosophical aim of alchemists.

Plato's philosophy is a dignified preface to future religion.

Morally, a philosopher who uses his professional competence for anything except a disinterested search for truth is guilty of a kind of treachery

We have brought to an end the idea of having two captains. The philosophy will now be to just have one captain.

Philosophy that cannot be understood, scriptures that are not practiced - it is a waste of time to talk of them.

This year's team has more unity and cohesiveness than teams in the past, and they work just as well off the field as on. The girls' attitudes are always positive and the team has a collective never-say-die philosophy. The girls never give up and are focus

We are not to give credit to the many, who say that none ought to be educated but the free; but rather to the philosophers, who say that the well-educated alone are free.

PYRRHONISM, n. An ancient philosophy, named for its inventor. It consisted of an absolute disbelief in everything but Pyrrhonism. Its modern professors have added that.

Philosophy should be an energy it should find its aim and its effect in the amelioration of mankind.

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.

We must exchange the philosophy of excuse - what I am is beyond my control for the philosophy of responsibility.

The dynamic element in my philosophy, taken as a whole, can be seen as an obstinate and untiring battle against the spirit of abstraction.

Bad philosophers may have a certain influence good philosophers, never.

By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you will become a philosopher. Socrates (470-399 B.C.)

This is not a game of 'gotcha.' This is a game to figure out how somebody thinks and what their judicial philosophy is and what their method legal reasoning is, ... He doesn't have to answer every one of those questions to get an idea. But I don't think it would be very helpful if he said, 'I can't answer any of them.'

To ridicule philosophy is really to philosophize.

My philosophy is we're going to recruit against them but we shouldn't be playing them all the time.

After last season, I had to make some changes. I couldn't keep going with the philosophy that I had to pitch no matter what.

There was really a change in philosophy then. And Glen, for all the criticism he's received -- for all that criticism that all of us have received, and deservedly so -- we were fortunate that ownership stuck with us to give us the time to do it right.

There is nothing so absurd (or ridiculous) but some philosopher has said it.

You do what you have to do in life, when you form a philosophy that you can't talk yourself out of.

I don't really dwell on numbers. My philosophy is that you attract quality students that have good attitudes and work hard, ... Those students attract more students of the same kind and the numbers take care of themselves.

If these are his views today and there is no indication they are not it's a hopeful sign that may provide some insight into his philosophy. This isn't pop-the-champagne-cork time. His views need to be explored.

Religion is doing; a man does not merely think his religion or feel it, he lives his religion as much as he is able, otherwise it is not religion but fantasy or philosophy.

The idea is that we feel like a community. We do not graduate many students at a time because some of our members might take a session off, but they still come to our free lectures or events that promote any other member's works. No one ever stops being a part of our community. We are all very centered around the philosophy of being a writer support group.

I want the players to play that way, so I'd better manage that way. The philosophy has been thrown out there. We've been talking about it. We've been working on it, so let's see how it works. Let's see if theory and reality can come together.

If I wished to punish a province, I would have it governed By philosophers.

The natural characters in the drama are not supposed to be philosophical, nor are they people with any refined kind of knowledge. They may be particularly blind or they may be suffering from the heaviness of the law, exactly as people have been suffering for 5000 years.

There is no record in human history of a happy philosopher.

Philosophy is an elegant thing, if anyone modestly meddles with it but if they are conversant with it more than is becoming, it corrupts them.

Actual philosophers. . . are commanders and law-givers they say thus it shall be, it is they who determine the Wherefore and Whither of mankind, and they possess for this task the preliminary work of all the philosophical labourers. . .

We're going to do things somewhat differently. I kind of like the old-fashioned, kind of the college philosophy, in the weight room. ... We're not going to totally go crazy, go over the edge with these guys. But we certainly want to train them, get them ready, so they can be in the best possible shape once we hit camp.

I don't believe in the philosophy that if you knock a champion down, then they get back up. You have to build them up gradually. You have to develop their self image. It's just how you treat people everyday that makes them better.

He's a great coach. That's just my personal opinion and that's not just because I played for him. It's because I really believe that. He's a really good coach. He knows what he's doing. He's got the right philosophy, the right ingredients to win. It's about us executing. That's really what it's about. It's not about the coaches. They only can do so much.

The most important single influence in the life of a person is another person. We may say to our children Here is art, science, philosophy, mathematics, music, psychology, history, religion - and we may open innumerable doors along the corridors of living so that they will have a broad and even a minute acquaintance with the segments of life but these introductions are not as important as knowing people whose characters and actions, personalities and words have grown after similar introductions and have become worthy of emulation.

With all the weird surroundings of outer space the basic underlying theme of the show is a philosophical approach to man's relationship to woman. There are both sexes in the crew, in fact, the first officer is a woman.

By renouncing the Bible, philosophers swing from their moorings upon all moral subjects...It is the only correct map of the human heart that ever has been published.

Good work is dignified. It develops your faculties and serves your community. It is a central human activity. Work, in this view makes you honest with yourself, requires that you develop your faculties and skills, empowers you to do what you are really good at and love to do, connects you in a compassionate way with the outside world, supports the philosophy of non-destructiveness and sustainability, and integrates work with personal life and community.

My philosophy is give me the best pitching staff you can give me and everything else we can figure out.

Roberts, President Bush's choice to replace the late William Rehnquist as chief justice of the Supreme Court, is well prepared for the post, Bork said. While praising Roberts for his brilliant mind, ... never heard Roberts say anything about judicial philosophy.

I enjoy getting things done. My philosophy is the edge, the edge of something. There's where we have to go in local government, in not only the philosophy but the creativity in people around you. They have to go to the edge.

At the end of the day, he chose to make a leap of faith and go there. The philosophy in the Canadian program at that time was to create a one-size-fits-all. Unfortunately, that wasn't going to work for Dale.

To me, he fits the mold of a head coach in the NFL, just the way he carries himself and his philosophy.

My philosophy is the thicker the wood the thicker the sound, the bigger the string the bigger the sound. My smallest string is a 14 gauge.

When you're in the muck you can only see muck. If you somehow manage to float above it, you still see the muck but you see it from a different perspective. And you see other things too. That's the consolation of philosophy.

The society which scorns excellence in plumbing as 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.

Vain wisdom all, and false philosophy.