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Image of Melissa Marr
Choose to be happy. It is what we have all done.
- Melissa Marr
Collection: Philosophy
Image of Edie Brickell
Philosophy is talk on a cereal box.
- Edie Brickell
Collection: Philosophy
Image of Alexander von Humboldt
Our imagination is struck only by what is great; but the lover of natural philosophy should reflect equally on little things.
- Alexander von Humboldt
Collection: Philosophy
Image of John Desmond Bernal
One of the questions on which clarity of thinking is now most necessary is that of the relation between the methods of science and of Marxist philosophy. Although much has already been written on the subject, yet there is still an enormous amount of confusion and contradictory statement.
- John Desmond Bernal
Collection: Philosophy
Image of E. F. Schumacher
The real problems of our planet are not economic or technical, they are philosophical. The philosophy of unbridled materialism is being challenged by events.
- E. F. Schumacher
Collection: Philosophy
Image of Theodore Roethke
By daily dying, I have come to be.
- Theodore Roethke
Collection: Philosophy
Image of Tracee Ellis Ross
As a younger person, my philosophy was jump off a cliff. I realize now that there are stairs and elevators. I am learning every day to allow the space between where I am and where I want to be to inspire me and not terrify me. I can even ask for help! Not feeling that I have to know everything, and that’s where the growth comes in, in the not knowing.
- Tracee Ellis Ross
Collection: Philosophy
Image of Harry A. Blackmun
We need not resolve the difficult question of when life begins. When those trained in the respective disciplines of medicine, philosophy, and theology are unable to arrive at any consensus, the judiciary, at this point in the development of man's knowledge, is not in a position to speculate as to the answer.
- Harry A. Blackmun
Collection: Philosophy
Image of Richard Rorty
Philosophy makes progress not by becoming more rigorous but by becoming more imaginative.
- Richard Rorty
Collection: Philosophy
Image of Grantland Rice
Golf is 20 percent mechanics and technique. The other 80 pecent is philosophy, humor, tragedy, romance, melodrama, companionship, camaraderie, cussedness and conversation.
- Grantland Rice
Collection: Philosophy
Image of Berenice Abbott
To chart a course, one must have a direction. In reality, the eye is no better than the philosophy behind it. The photographer creates, evolves a better, a more selective, more acute seeing eye by looking ever more sharply at what is going on in the world.
- Berenice Abbott
Collection: Philosophy
Image of Peter Tosh
My philosophy is: if you don't bear a cross, you can't wear a crown so you gotta go through some form of humiliation to reach tribulation.
- Peter Tosh
Collection: Philosophy
Image of Trevanian
Go is to Western chess what philosophy is to double-entry accounting.
- Trevanian
Collection: Philosophy
Image of W.N.P. Barbellion
Youth is an intoxication without wine, someone says. Life is an intoxication. The only sober man is the melancholiac, who, disenchanted, looks at life, sees it as it really is, and cuts his throat. If this be so, I want to be very drunk. The great thing is to live, to clutch at our existence and race away with it in some great and enthralling pursuit. Above all, I must beware of all ultimate questions- they are too maddeningly unanswerable- let me eschew philosophy and burn Omar.
- W.N.P. Barbellion
Collection: Philosophy
Image of Antonin Scalia
The Court's decision reflects the philosophy that judges should endure whatever interpretive distortions it takes in order to correct a supposed flaw in the statutory machinery. That philosophy ignores the American people's decision to give Congress '[a]ll legislative Powers' enumerated in the Constitution. They made Congress, not this Court, responsible for both making laws and mending them.
- Antonin Scalia
Collection: Philosophy
Image of Sándor Márai
Everything your students need to know about philosophy communicated in a way that appeals to them, as well as inspire many of them to the study of philosophy.
- Sándor Márai
Collection: Philosophy
Image of Zack Snyder
You can't teach anyone. You can't tell anyone. That's the thing you have to sit down and experience in order for it to mean anything. You can't intellectualize it. It's like why movies are cool. It's a combination of pictures and design and acting and music can create an experience that is outside of the experience that you can actually have in reality, which gets to my motion picture philosophy. People are like, 'aren't you trying to make the movies as real as you can?'
- Zack Snyder
Collection: Philosophy
Image of Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
Religion and morals are symmetrically opposed, just like poetry and philosophy.
- Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
Collection: Philosophy
Image of Gary Player
First, educate yourself about what a vegan diet entails and why it is beneficial to your health. You need to understand and embrace the philosophy or you will not be able to make such a drastic dietary change. Secondly, make the change over time. Don't try and "go cold turkey"; you will shock your system and you will develop cravings that you may not be able to fight off. If you take your time and let your body adjust you will be eating a completely different diet before you realize it.
- Gary Player
Collection: Philosophy
Image of Renata Adler
There follows a little obscenity here, a dash of philosophy there, considerable whining overall, and a modern satirical novel is born.
- Renata Adler
Collection: Philosophy
Image of John Archibald Wheeler
I like to think that someone will trace how the deepest thinking of India made its way to Greece and from there to the philosophy of our times
- John Archibald Wheeler
Collection: Philosophy
Image of Gilda Radner
... every time I got disappointed I'd remember the Roseannadanna philosophy that says that you shouldn't cry over split milk 'cause if you spill some milk and instead of cleaning it up you just walk over it and start crying, they're gonna put you on lithium.
- Gilda Radner
Collection: Philosophy
Image of Stevie Ray Vaughan
That's how it happens, livin life by the drop.
- Stevie Ray Vaughan
Collection: Philosophy
Image of Greg Norman
You create your own luck by the way you play. There is no such luck as bad luck. Fate has nothing to do with success or failure, because that is a negative philosophy that indicts one's confidence, and I'll have no part of it.
- Greg Norman
Collection: Philosophy
Image of Al Sharpton
White folks was in the caves while we [blacks] was building empires ... We built pyramids before Donald Trump ever knew what architecture was ... we taught philosophy and astrology and mathematics before Socrates and them Greek homos ever got around to it.
- Al Sharpton
Collection: Philosophy
Image of Daniel D. Palmer
The philosophy of chiropractic is founded upon the knowledge of the manner in which a vital functions are performed by innate in health and disease. When the controlling intelligence is able to transmit mental impulses to all parts of the body, free and unobstructed, we have normal action which is health.
- Daniel D. Palmer
Collection: Philosophy
Image of Christopher Paul Curtis
I'm sure there's some philosophy that says one of the best ways to deal with any of your problems is to take a deep breath and step away from them for a while, writing does this for me.
- Christopher Paul Curtis
Collection: Philosophy
Image of William George Jordan
Everything that is great in life is the product of slow growth; the newer, and greater, and higher, and nobler the work, the slower is its growth, the surer is its lasting success. Mushrooms attain their full power in a night; oaks require decades. A fad lives its life in a few weeks; a philosophy lives through generations and centuries.
- William George Jordan
Collection: Philosophy
Image of Anne Michaels
Translation is a kind of transubstantiation; one poem becomes another. You can choose your philosophy of translation just as you choose how to live: the free adaptation that sacrifices detail to meaning, the strict crib that sacrifices meaning to exactitude. The poet moves from life to language, the translator moves from language to life; both, like the immigrant, try to identify the invisible, what's between the lines, the mysterious implications.
- Anne Michaels
Collection: Philosophy
Image of Richard Hugo
Think small.... If you can't think small, try philosophy or social criticism.
- Richard Hugo
Collection: Philosophy
Image of Roger Tory Peterson
The philosophy that I have worked under most of my life is that the serious study of natural history is an activity which has far-reaching effects in every aspect of a person's life. It ultimately makes people protective of the environment in a very committed way. It is my opinion that the study of natural history should be the primary avenue for creating environmentalists.
- Roger Tory Peterson
Collection: Philosophy
Image of Lev S. Vygotsky
The only 'good' learning is that which is in advance of development.
- Lev S. Vygotsky
Collection: Philosophy
Image of Mary Ritter Beard
Unless one's philosophy is all-inclusive, nothing can be understood.
- Mary Ritter Beard
Collection: Philosophy
Image of Mary Ritter Beard
Every great creative idea, formulated as a philosophy, has a social setting - in time, in a geographical location, in a political economy, in a matrix of interests and knowledge. It is not a free-swinging phenomenon like a balloon without moorings. It is not produced in a vacuum and, being creative, it does not work in a vacuum. Nurtured on things experienced and things known, it reaches out toward the unknown like a flower on a stalk growing out of the soil.
- Mary Ritter Beard
Collection: Philosophy
Image of Allan Bloom
I am now even more persuaded of the urgent need to study why Socrates was accused. The dislike of philosophy is perennial, and the seeds of the condemnation of Socrates are present at all times, not in the bosoms of pleasure-seekers, who don't give a damn, but in those of high-minded and idealistic persons who do not want to submit their aspirations to examination.
- Allan Bloom
Collection: Philosophy
Image of Bill Mollison
Permaculture is a philosophy of working with, rather than against nature; of protracted and thoughtful observation rather than protracted and thoughtless labor; and of looking at plants and animals in all their functions, rather than treating any area as a single product system
- Bill Mollison
Collection: Philosophy
Image of Clay Shirky
When you adopt a tool you adopt the management philosophy embedded in that tool.
- Clay Shirky
Collection: Philosophy
Image of Iain Pears
Virtue comes through contemplation of the divine, and the exercise of philosophy. But it also comes through public service. The one is incomplete without the other. Power without wisdom is tyranny; wisdom without power is pointless.
- Iain Pears
Collection: Philosophy
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The point of civilization is to be civilized; the purpose of action is to perpetuate society, for only in society can philosophy truly take place.
- Iain Pears
Collection: Philosophy
Image of Iain Pears
Action is the activity of the rational soul, which abhors irrationality and must combat it or be corrupted by it. When it sees the irrationality of others, it must seek to correct it, and can do this either by teaching or engaging in public affairs itself, correcting through its practice. And the purpose of action is to enable philosophy to continue, for if men are reduced to the material alone, they become no more than beasts.
- Iain Pears
Collection: Philosophy
Image of Iain Pears
Philosophy cannot be extinguished, though men will try ... The spirit seeks the light, that is its nature. It wishes to return to its origin, and must forever try to reach enlightenment.
- Iain Pears
Collection: Philosophy
Image of Miyamoto Musashi
The purpose of today's training is to defeat yesterday's understanding.
- Miyamoto Musashi
Collection: Philosophy
Image of Ruth Rendell
It's living - a broad spectrum of living - that teaches you how to live, not philosophy. Philosophy teaches you how to think.
- Ruth Rendell
Collection: Philosophy
Image of Pierre Bayle
Philosophy can be compared to some powders that are so corrosive that, after they have eaten away the infected flesh of a wound, they then devour the living flesh, rot the bones, and penetrate to the very marrow. Philosophy at first refutes errors. But if it is not stopped at this point, it goes on to attack truths. And when it is left on its own, it goes so far that it no longer knows where it is and can find no stopping place.
- Pierre Bayle
Collection: Philosophy
Image of Michel Onfray
I discovered philosophy in my youth when I read wildly, and thus I was exposed to the world of ideas.
- Michel Onfray
Collection: Philosophy
Image of Aaron Neville
Don't be ashamed to let your conscience be your guide.
- Aaron Neville
Collection: Philosophy
Image of Lorrie Moore
Basically, I realized I was living in that awful stage of life between twenty-six to and thirty-seven known as stupidity. It's when you don't know anything, not even as much as you did when you were younger, and you don't even have a philosophy about all the things you don't know, the way you did when you were twenty or would again when you were thirty-eight.
- Lorrie Moore
Collection: Philosophy
Image of Alexander Lowen
We live in an ocean of air like fish in a body of water. By our breathing we are attuned to our atmosphere. If we inhibit our breathing we isolate ourselves from the medium in which we exist. In all Oriental and mystic philosophies, the breath holds the secret to the highest bliss.
- Alexander Lowen
Collection: Philosophy