Philosophy Quotes About Character & Perspective – Page 2 | GloryQuotes

Persons who have been homeless carry within them a certain philosophy of life which makes them apprehensive about ownership.

Jerzy Kosinski

There is nothing in philosophy which could not be said in everyday language.

Henri Bergson

Most of the mistakes in thinking are inadequacies of perception rather than mistakes of logic.

Edward de Bono

If I were to adopt pure mechanism as a philosophy, there would be no way I could choose to be a scholar.

Kenneth L. Pike

The object of studying philosophy is to know one's own mind, not other people's.

Dean Inge

They declaim against the passions without bothering to think that it is from their flame philosophy lights its torch.

Marquis de Sade

Philosophy is common sense with big words.

Truth as such is not a particularly important concept in naturalistic philosophy.

Phillip E. Johnson

Thinking begins only when we have come to know that reason, glorified for centuries, is the stiff-necked adversary of thought.

Martin Heidegger

The marvel of the Bhagavad-Gita is its truly beautiful revelation of life's wisdom which enables philosophy to blossom into religion.

Herman Hesse

Truth in philosophy means that concept and external reality correspond.

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

My philosophy: find what it is you want to say, walk in the room, say it, and get the hell out.

J. Michael Straczynski

I decided to teach because I think that any person who studies philosophy has to be involved actively.

Angela Davis

We have the tools, but we have to learn how to use them. That is my political philosophy.

Harri Holkeri

There is nothing so strange and so unbelievable that it has not been said by one philosopher or another.

Rene Descartes

Be a philosopher but, amid all your philosophy be still a man.

One's philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes... and the choices we make are ultimately our responsibility.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Contradiction was something I really like when it is embraced in that kind of philosophy.

Jim Jarmusch

All the most prominent Darwinists proclaim naturalistic philosophy when they think it safe to do so.

Phillip E. Johnson

Philosophy goes no further than probabilities, and in every assertion keeps a doubt in reserve.

James Anthony Froude

I wanted a theory that would allow one to live outside the office with the same philosophy one uses inside it.

Kenneth L. Pike

The point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as not to seem worth stating, and to end with something so paradoxical that no one will believe it.

Bertrand Russell

Philosophy as practice does not mean its restriction to utility or applicability, that is, to what serves morality or produces serenity of soul.

Karl Jaspers

Darwinism is not merely a support for naturalistic philosophy: it is a product of naturalistic philosophy.

Phillip E. Johnson

In philosophy if you aren't moving at a snail's pace you aren't moving at all.

Iris Murdoch

Human knowledge is dark and uncertain; philosophy is dark, astrology is dark, and geometry is dark.

John Jewel

The picture which the philosopher draws of the world is surely not one in which every stroke is necessitated by pure logic.

Morris Raphael Cohen

Some of the poetic writers who insert passages of realism in their texts have no underlying philosophy to uphold them, and revert to realism.

Marguerite Young

Every philosophy is tinged with the coloring of some secret imaginative background, which never emerges explicitly into its train of reasoning.

Alfred North Whitehead

We are not abandoning our convictions, our philosophy or traditions, nor do we urge anyone to abandon theirs.

Mikhail Gorbachev

A novel is never anything, but a philosophy put into images.

To decide to become a philosopher seemed as foolish to me as to decide to become a poet.

Karl Jaspers

Philosophy: Unintelligible answers to insoluble problems.

Henry B. Adams

In Hinduism, conscience, reason and independent thinking have no scope for development.

B. R. Ambedkar

People look for morals in fiction because there has always been a confusion between fiction and philosophy.

John Cheever

I have a new philosophy. I'm only going to dread one day at a time.

Charles M. Schulz

Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger portion of the truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant.

Edgar Allan Poe

One cannot conceive anything so strange and so implausible that it has not already been said by one philosopher or another.

Rene Descartes

My philosophy is, unless you're sick and need help, why bother?

Jackie Collins

You can't do without philosophy, since everything has its hidden meaning which we must know.

Maxim Gorky

Philosophy is properly home-sickness; the wish to be everywhere at home.

Novalis

The person that turns over the most rocks wins the game. And that's always been my philosophy.

Peter Lynch

A good designer must rely on experience, on precise, logic thinking; and on pedantic exactness. No magic will do.

Niklaus Wirth

My philosophy of leadership is to surround myself with good people who have ability, judgment and knowledge, but above all, a passion for service.

Sonny Perdue

The philosophy behind much advertising is based on the old observation that every man is really two men - the man he is and the man he wants to be.

William Feather

Medicine rests upon four pillars - philosophy, astronomy, alchemy, and ethics.

Paracelsus

In the information age, you don't teach philosophy as they did after feudalism. You perform it. If Aristotle were alive today he'd have a talk show.

Timothy Leary

There's a difference between a philosophy and a bumper sticker.

Charles M. Schulz