Philosophy Quotes About Character & Perspective – Page 3 | GloryQuotes

I am an Epicurean. I consider the genuine (not the imputed) doctrines of Epicurus as containing everything rational in moral philosophy which Greek and Roman leave to us.

Thomas Jefferson

If you see a philosopher determining all things by means of right reason, him you shall reverence: he is a heavenly being and not of this earth.

Giovanni Pico della Mirandola

You reason color more than you reason drawing... Color has a logic as severe as form.

Pierre Bonnard

Words, without power, is mere philosophy.

Muhammad Iqbal

It is possible to be a master in false philosophy, easier, in fact, than to be a master in the truth, because a false philosophy can be made as simple and consistent as one pleases.

George Santayana

Skepticism is the first step on the road to philosophy.

Hey, you want to hear my philosophy of life? Do it to him before he does it to you.

Budd Schulberg

All sciences are now under the obligation to prepare the ground for the future task of the philosopher, which is to solve the problem of value, to determine the true hierarchy of values.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Philosophy, most broadly viewed, is the critical survey of existence from the standpoint of value.

Sidney Hook

To believe only possibilities is not faith, but mere philosophy.

Thomas Browne

To the philosopher, death is but the next great adventure.

J. K. Rowling

Ethical and questions of philosophy interest me a great deal.

Robert Sheckley

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.

Bertrand Russell

The present basic philosophy is nuclear deterrence.

Joseph Rotblat

The first step towards philosophy is incredulity.

Am I an Apple bigot? No. I can critique their products and their customer service philosophy. But overall, they do better than any other player.

Donald Norman

The problem with emotion was that it was clearly something important, but-at least according to the old philosophy-it was something to overcome.

Donald Norman

Any philosophy that can be put in a nutshell belongs there.

Sydney J. Harris

The theoretical understanding of the world, which is the aim of philosophy, is not a matter of great practical importance to animals, or to savages, or even to most civilised men.

Bertrand Russell

When a philosopher says something that is true then it is trivial. When he says something that is not trivial then it is false.

Carl Friedrich Gauss

Philosophy can only be approached with the most concrete comprehension.

Karl Jaspers

And new Philosophy calls all in doubt, the element of fire is quite put out; the Sun is lost, and the earth, and no mans wit can well direct him where to look for it.

John Donne

Our faith is stronger than death, our philosophy is firmer than flesh, and the spread of the Kingdom of God upon the earth is more sublime and more compelling.

Dorothy Day

Dogmatism and skepticism are both, in a sense, absolute philosophies; one is certain of knowing, the other of not knowing. What philosophy should dissipate is certainty, whether of knowledge or ignorance.

Bertrand Russell

I don't have any well-developed philosophy about journalism. Ultimately it is important in a society like this, so people can know about everything that goes wrong.

Charles Kuralt

I set forth a humble and inglorious life; that does not matter. You can tie up all moral philosophy with a common and private life just as well as with a life of richer stuff. Each man bears the entire form of man's estate.

Michel de Montaigne

We have to make philosophy itself an object of philosophical concern.

Wilhelm Dilthey

Drama is action, sir, action and not confounded philosophy.

Luigi Pirandello

Philosophy is not a theory but an activity.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

And so my militant philosophy is this: to make with a brush on canvas is a simple direct delight-to make with the movie is the same.

Norman McLaren

There is no religion in which everyday life is not considered a prison; there is no philosophy or ideology that does not think that we live in alienation.

Eugene Ionesco

My personal philosophy of life is one of ethics.

Alva Myrdal

Philosophy is like trying to open a safe with a combination lock: each little adjustment of the dials seems to achieve nothing, only when everything is in place does the door open.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Only as an individual can man become a philosopher.

Karl Jaspers

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

Without the communist oppression, I am absolutely sure I would now be a local stupid professor of philosophy in Ljubljana.

Slavoj Zizek

The food we ate was Indian, and both my mother and father were very deep into the ancient philosophy of India, so it could well have been an Indian household.

Amar Bose

Indeed heresies are themselves instigated by philosophy.

Tertullian

The questions of philosophy proper are human desires and fears and aspirations - human emotions - taking an intellectual form.

Chauncey Wright

Making itself intelligible is suicide for philosophy.

Martin Heidegger

People seem to forget that one reason they are now thinking differently is Freud's legacy itself.

Peter Gay

Because philosophy arises from awe, a philosopher is bound in his way to be a lover of myths and poetic fables. Poets and philosophers are alike in being big with wonder.

My philosophy all my life has been the pursuit of excellence.

John Kluge

Ordinary people seem not to realize that those who really apply themselves in the right way to philosophy are directly and of their own accord preparing themselves for dying and death.

Socrates

What sort of philosophy one chooses depends on what sort of person one is.

Johann Gottlieb Fichte

While I am interested both in economics and in philosophy, the union of my interests in the two fields far exceeds their intersection.

Amartya Sen

If any philosopher had been asked for a definition of infinity, he might have produced some unintelligible rigmarole, but he would certainly not have been able to give a definition that had any meaning at all.

Bertrand Russell

The chief benefit, which results from philosophy, arises in an indirect manner, and proceeds more from its secret, insensible influence, than from its immediate application.