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

Rene Descartes

The problem is that once the untrained mind has made a formal commitment to a religious philosophy - and it does not matter whether that philosophy is generally reasonable and high-minded or utterly bizarre and irrational - the powers of reason are s.

Steve Allen

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

Charles M. Schulz

All philosophies, if you ride them, are nonsense, but some are greater nonsense than others.

Samuel Butler

I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.

Baruch Spinoza

There is nothing so absurd but some philosopher has said it.

Cicero

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

To act with common sense according to the moment, is the best wisdom I know; and the best philosophy is to do one's duties, take the world as it comes, submit respectfully to one's lot; bless the goodness that has given us so much happiness with it.

Horace Walpole

The man form is higher than the angel form; of all forms it is the highest. Man is the highest being in creation, because he aspires to freedom.

Paramahansa Yogananda

Philosophy consists very largely of one philosopher arguing that all others are jackasses. He usually proves it, and I should add that he also usually proves that he is one himself.

H. L. Mencken

Psychiatry's chief contribution to philosophy is the discovery that the toilet is the seat of the soul.

Alexander Chase

Leisure is the mother of philosophy.

Thomas Hobbes

Bread for myself is a material question. Bread for my neighbor is a spiritual one.

Nikolai Berdyaev

This is patently absurd; but whoever wishes to become a philosopher must learn not to be frightened by absurdities.

Bertrand Russell

Most mothers are instinctive philosophers.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

There is no social entity with a good that undergoes some sacrifice for its own good. There are only individual people, different individual people, with their own individual lives. Using one of these people for the benefit of others, uses him and benefits the others. Nothing more.

Robert Nozick

There's no life without humour. It can make the wonderful moments of life truly glorious, and it can make tragic moments bearable.

Rufus Wainwright

There is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers.

William James

Whoever makes something having bought or contracted for all other held resources used in the process (transferring some of his holdings for these cooperating factors), is entitled to it. The situation is not one of something's getting made, and there being an open question of who is to get it. Things come into the world already attached to people having entitlements over them.

Robert Nozick

My only wish is…to transform friends of God into friends of man, believers into thinkers, devotees of prayer into devotees of work, candidates for the hereafter into students of the world, Christians who, by their own procession and admission, are "half animal, half angel" into persons, into whole persons.

Ludwig Feuerbach

The conception of worth, that each person is an end per se, is not a mere abstraction. Our interest in it is not merely academic. Every outcry against the oppression of some people by other people, or against what is morally hideous is the affirmation of the principle that a human being as such is not to be violated. A human being is not to be handled as a tool but is to be respected and revered.

Felix Adler

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

Angela Davis

From each as they choose, to each as they are chosen.

Robert Nozick

Almost all the noblest things that have been achieved in the world, have been achieved by poor men; poor scholars, poor professional men, poor artisans and artists, poor philosophers, poets, and men of genius.

Albert Pike

We have limited knowledge, or else science and philosophy would not be necessary.

Ivan Urlaub

The power of philosophy floats through my head, light like a feather, heavy as lead.

Bob Marley

Just as philosophy is the study of other people's misconceptions, so history is the study of other people's mistakes.

Phillip Guedala

I have gained this by philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law.

Aristotle

Philosophy teaches us to bear with equanimity the misfortunes of others.

Oscar Wilde

Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art.

Will Durant

True philosophy invents nothing; it merely establishes and describes what is.

Victor Cousin

My philosophy is that not only are you responsible for your life, but doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.

Oprah Winfrey

Music is a higher revelation than philosophy.

Ludwig van Beethoven

Philosophy is common sense with big words.

James Madison

There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio,Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.

William Shakespeare

There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.

William Shakespeare

What is the first business of one who practices philosophy? To get rid of self-conceit. For it is impossible for anyone to begin to learn that which he thinks he already knows.

Epictetus

I've developed a new philosophy... I only dread one day at a time.

Charles M. Schulz

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

Charles M. Schulz

Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.

Will Durant

History is philosophy teaching by example, and also warning; its two eyes are geography and chronology.

James A. Garfield

A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, But depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion.

Sir Francis Bacon

My philosophy, in essence, is the concept of man as a heroic being, with his own happiness as the moral purpose of his life, with productive achievement as his noblest activity, and reason as his only absolute.

Ayn Rand

This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.

The Dalai Lama

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

The agenda of the roadblock is the philosophy of the stop sign.

George W. Bush

History is the great dust-heap... a pageant and not a philosophy.

Augustine Birrell

We do not learn by inference and deduction and the application of mathematics to philosophy, but by direct intercourse and sympathy.

Henry David Thoreau

Our philosophy is that we don't think of ourselves as just a toy company but as a consumer entertainment products company. It even says that on our business cards and that's the direction that we're heading in.

Isaac Larian

I think we ought always to entertain our opinions with some measure of doubt. I shouldn't wish people dogmatically to believe any philosophy, not even mine.

Bertrand Russell

My philosophy? Simplicity plus variety.

Hank Stram

We think we can play with them. We've got to be able to fire off the ball on offense and play good defense. We've also got to be able to run the ball. That's my philosophy.

Monty Stumbaugh

He is a man who is not tortured by doubt over the correctness of his judicial philosophy.

Bruce Fein

Our philosophy here with both SAT and AP is that we want to encourage all students to take the test.

Kevin Fitzgerald

We want to add a fifth receiver if we can. I don't think our philosophy - mine or Ted's - is to just to go out and get somebody to get somebody. But if we can get someone who can come in and help us, (we will).

Mike Sherman

For the most part, coaches have the same philosophy, they are there for the kids. I've made a lot of great relationships with coaches. It's a working relationship for all of us.

Dave Flurie

History is philosophy learned from examples.

Dionysius

People who decide they came to earth to work, who make work their personal philosophy, are kept very busy.

Constantine Karamanlis

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 is the object of philosophy, but not always of philosophers.

John Churton Collins

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.

Ambrose Bierce

My philosophy is to take back the word craft rather than get rid of it. I'm interested in design, art.

Karen Gilbert

What kept coming up is I have such a different philosophy about the game than what April has and what the national team has, ... It's not fun anymore.

Tiffeny Milbrett

Our team is still based primarily on pitching and defense. This is just a bonus for us. We have the same philosophy that we've always had. Sometimes you're just able to hit the ball hard — and hit it in the air.

Drew Stubbs

The philosophy in our coverage will be what you see in the Olympics. We're going to build stars and make you care about the stars.

Sam Flood

His philosophy is to swarm to the ball. If someone misses a tackle, another guy will be right behind.

Tanuvasa Moe

Our philosophy is that we want to keep our roads clean and safe, and to do that we want to encourage people to have a safe location where they can mourn.

Darrel Cole

I have a 'Play the melody' philosophy. It means don't over-arrange, don't make life difficult. Just play the melody -- and do it the simplest way possible.

Jackie Gleason

If you want to look good on the outside, you must also feel good and be good on the inside. Our practice is really tailored to that [philosophy].

Alda Piliszek

The need was there. There was a common goal, preserve and promote the values, ideals, culture and philosophy of Hinduism. The decision was easy. It was decided to build a Hindu place of worship.

Giridhara Gopal

Both are excellent keepers, but we believe that Jens Lehmann is more suited to our playing philosophy.

Andreas Koepke

The philosophy is similar. They connect with adults and keep going through middle and high school.

Jayson Samuels

The Democratic Party will, one of these days, stop resisting the philosophy that President Kennedy briefly revived for his party. It will have to, if it ever again aspires to be the majority party.

Jude Wanniski

I like a lot of stuff -- the more stuff the better. My philosophy is that you can never have too much stuff.

Ann Hughes

They have a philosophy to enjoy life. When they reach a certain age and a certain amount of money, they're happy to move over for the next generation.

Bernard Kliska

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

Constantine Karamanlis

Music is philosophy. Every chord, every word tells a story. If you listen you will know its meaning.

Kamanda Ndama

Basically, it's your philosophy on what a preview is, what it's for, and what people should spend for it. And I try to err on the side of the consumer.

Randy Weeks

Our philosophy is to work hard and that's all we know how to do. We played Venice baseball like it's supposed to be played.

Craig Faulkner

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.

George Gurdjieff

If I were the Chiefs, I'd start looking to defense. Gunther Cunningham has been great, but the Chiefs' defense has just been bad. I would want to get myself a young, energetic coach who can handle the grind and is excited about the grind and brings a defensive philosophy to my football team.

Mark Schlereth

Our philosophy then was to schedule one major non-conference game - home and home. That was the game.

Deloss Dodds

We replaced the players we lost with a new philosophy.

Pierre Lacroix

It's fair to say, give back more than you receive. That's a philosophy of both of them: They lead by example.

Peter Kellogg

No philosophy, no religion, has ever brought so glad a message to the world as this good news of Atheism.

Annie Besant

The symbol of Moses and the burning bush is such a powerful image in Jewish philosophy. It is a beautiful image.

Jay Lewis

It's a good opportunity. I like the coach (Mike Thibault) and his philosophy. And the style of his players fits my style.

Katie Cronin

Conversation may be compared to a lyre with seven chords - philosophy, art, poetry, love, scandal, and the weather.

Anna Jameson

Our basic philosophy is time, talk and tactics.

John Clay

It's kind of like the old philosophy, you either grow or die. And really that's where we are as an organization.

Randy Robertson

My pitching philosophy is simple - keep the ball way from the bat.

Satchel Paige

I think that the basic philosophy was very good. It was just be nice to each other, and don't step on other people's toes and infringe on their freedom.

Kevin Ayers

I love it. It's exciting and our style of play and philosophy hasn't changed that much from when my husband coached.

Jessica Porter

Giants who change the philosophy of law and have spoken about changing ideas.

Bruce Fein

I just want to be healthy and happy. I don't want to hurt anybody or make them mad. If that's a philosophy then that's my philosophy.

Chad Michael Murray

Our philosophy now is to take the best players.

Sergey Mikhalev

AVS has a philosophy of people first, not grades or accomplishments. I now look at my kids that way -- kids first. It's not about their disability or their ability to accomplish anything. It's about who they are.

Dayna Kimball

Truth in philosophy means that concept and external reality correspond.

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

To me, philosophy is thinking things through to their logical conclusions.

Michael Weisberg

I went off to college planning to major in math or philosophy-- of course, both those ideas are really the same idea.

Frank Wilczek

You'll find something missing, we haven't had a TV in 19 years. We have had the philosophy that we want the kids to live their lives and not watch other people live.

Tim Rollins

This definitely is a different style. We like to play a little more small ball. We have a different philosophy this season. Ours isn't any better. But we have to mold our philosophy to the kids we have.

Patrick Mcgaha

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

Luigi Pirandello

I don't believe in quotas. America was founded on a philosophy of individual rights, not group rights.

Clarence Thomas

Going into the spring we've made a lot of adjustments [offensively]. The team has bought into our philosophy. They've done really well making the adjustments, they haven't tried to fight it and its just going to be a matter of time once everybody is completely comfortable with it.

Chris Finnegan

In Kyudo philosophy, you don't aim--you become one with the target. Then, in fact, there's nothing to aim at. I find it works well with women, too. Give it a try.

Martin Sage and Sybil Adelman

We like to think of ourselves as equals out there. Our philosophy is simple ? be patient on the ice and have fun.

Cassie Johnson

We are challenging the philosophy of scientific materialism, not science itself.

Discovery Institute

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

Peter Lynch

As part of that partnership we have agreed to a philosophy of sharing the matches evenly between the two countries with the location of the final yet to be decided.

Martin Snedden

The key for us Saturday is to establish our 50-50 offensive philosophy. We have to keep Georgia Southern from dictating the pace.

Rocky Hager

We just don't believe in tax cuts - it's against our fundamental philosophy - after all we are socialists and proud of it.

Michael Cullen

Our philosophy here is, if we can give the kids any reason not to do it — peer pressure, testing, whatever — we're going to try it.

Bobby Lewis

In the last five or six years, there's been a sharper focus on contributions that apply to the interest of the business -- many corporations now have a philosophy of, 'When in doubt, leave it out,' .

Curt Weeden

What one decides to do in crisis depends on one's philosophy of life, and that philosophy cannot be changed by an incident. If one hasn't any philosophy in crises, others make the decision.

Jeannette Rankin

I really like the pastor here. And I agree with his philosophy that the church has to be more than worrying about the building. ... There is no mandatory giving to the restoration. We tithe, and if I want to donate money to the restoration, it's my choice.

Tracy Johnson

He came out and was ready to go. He competed hard and put two matches together. Our philosophy today was to win two out of three matches and he got that done.

Toby Bryant

After the Holmes game, we kind of went back to the drawing board. We really reiterated our defensive philosophy about stopping people from getting to the basket.

Jim Hicks

We can ill afford to spend all this money defending what the superintendent is calling 'just a philosophy class.

Paula Harvey

PLATONIC, adj. Pertaining to the philosophy of Socrates. Platonic Love is a fool's name for the affection between a disability and a frost.

Ambrose Bierce

He did a great job of taking it piece by piece and breaking it down to the bare nuts and bolts of it. He really made us learn the philosophy of the offense, what he's trying to do, instead of just learning what you do on which play.

Anthony Fasano

I just wanted to throw the cheese at the knees and get ground balls. That's our philosophy. We've all been pretty aggressive, and it's worked well so far.

Mike Ekstrom

My philosophy from looking at Dilbert was the art must not matter that much, because he was the biggest hit of the day, ... He didn't draw that well and neither did I. I figured if he could do it, maybe I had a chance.

Stephan Pastis

I feel like every year we're going to be there, it's whether we're going to be good enough to win it. So we've tried to change some things philosophy-wise, change some coaching philosophy, just re-evaluate what we can do better.

Brian Hucks

We base our philosophy on defense. You win with defense. You get rewarded by defense.

Fred Lee

Our philosophy is to have an offense for every defense thrown at you. We try to respond to whatever we see. We just like to keep it simple. (Kennedy) is getting better, and he's having better decisions to make.

Clay Norton

Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy.

Margaret Thatcher

There's no perfect formula, but the NSW system has too many exclusions and exemptions. We agree with the philosophy, but there has to be a simpler formula.

Jack Haley

We knew 3-point shooting was their game. There's a lot of irony in it in that we go on the same philosophy.

Megan Ronhovde

I don't see any reason to (change) when you average as many wins as we have. It seems silly to change a philosophy that was successful.

Reno Pinkston

Her philosophy was: Jesus first. Others second and yourself last.

Janice Sutton

Advances in probability theory, computer science, the concept of information, molecular biology and the philosophy of science.

William Dembski

I think our philosophy is if we don't ask for what we're worth, we'll never get it.

Ruth Williams

Our philosophy is to make history come alive. The use of a vaudeville show allows students to connect with local history through the hook of entertainment.

Bob Johnson

Digital was a company founded and run by engineers whose philosophy was, if the product is good, people will beat a path to your door.

Paul Jorgensen

There seems to be less of a collector's philosophy among people and the products they own.

Dusty Hill

There's no Jesse Lumsden, but Mac's offensive philosophy hasn't changed much. Their quarterback, Adam Archibald, is a big guy. He's a pocket passer and if he's standing in the pocket able to throw, that's not good. It means we're not getting to him.

Paul Gleason

I am now convinced that theoretical physics is actually philosophy.

Max Born

She definitely had a different philosophy than our organization does about these animals.

Tammy Quist

We've opened ourselves to a lot of markets because of that philosophy. Tell us what you need. We'll try to figure out how to make it.

Bob Willett

To overturn orthodoxy is no easier in science than in philosophy, religion, economics, or any of the other disciplines through which we try to comprehend the world and the society in which we live.

Ruth Hubbard

Philosophy is to the real world as masturbation is to sex.

Karl Marx

The philosophy here is one ID card has [multiple] technologies on it.

David Olsen

It's been my philosophy to play a very challenging non conference schedule. It's been a little bit of a journey and baptism by fire, but it's been a big help.

Sandy Botham

I'm very proud of all 25 boys. They bought into our philosophy, which is family. ... They believed in one another, worked hard, and I'll tell you, from No. 1 to 25, there's no one person more important than any other.

Shawn Mccuen

The problem with the Greenspan Fed is that it has been a 'make it up as you go along' Fed. There is no philosophy with Greenspan. He changes his mind about all of this stuff.

Jim Bianco

It was Harvey's philosophy towards life. He would continue to push the envelope. He is relentless in his passion for the movie. Harvey is one of a kind.

Randy Spendlove

Skepticism is the first step on the road to philosophy.

Denis Diderot

Archaeology is the search for fact... not truth. If it's truth you're looking for, Dr. Tyree's philosophy class is right down the hall.

George Lucas

It might be a different philosophy, but having your foot on a ball makes a whole lot of difference.

Corey Bosarge

If I was mistaken in some way, please forgive me, but stop with this constant philosophy of forgiving and forgetting.

Mariana Fulger

I've been in the room. There's some changes I'd like to make. I have a free-weight philosophy. I'm very organized. I'm a real hands-on guy. I don't know exactly how Barry went about things but that's always been my approach.

Rock Gullickson

It's heavy, but also it's sort of the philosophy of Hospice that it's not about death. It's about life. When you're able to confront the realities of death, you're able to live life as long as you can.

Landon Adams

Words, without power, is mere philosophy.

Muhammad Iqbal

Philosophy classes come with this connotation of being difficult or that the reading is hard to understand. Philosophy relates to our daily experience, to the problems we see going on in our lives.

Danae Mcleod

It's early. How many teams do you know their philosophy in Week 2?

Damien Woody

There is no philosophy without the art of ignoring objections.

Joseph Marie De Maistre

The philosophy of this place is general cooking for people who cook for the people they love. This is basic cooking for people you care about.

Frank Locante

Czyz is the best defensive player we've got and he made it hard for (Beaty) to get the basketball. My philosophy is if you work hard to get it, you're too tired to do anything with it.

Andre Payne

Europe will never be like America. Europe is a product of history. America is a product of philosophy.

Margaret Thatcher

It's a state of mind. It's a sport, but it's also a philosophy.

Matt Perry

My philosophy is to take care of people as they come in. And to get as many in and out as fast as we can.

Patrick Sparks

Any genuine philosophy leads to action and from action back again to wonder, to enduring fact of mystery.

Henry Miller

We are confident in the integrity of our retail network and their respect for the Saturn pricing philosophy.

Jill Lajdziak

My personal philosophy is that we don't discriminate, ... We put it in writing because it became an issue. Literally, nothing has changed.

Carl Brizzi

Part of our philosophy is to wrestle the absolute best, because that is what we want to be.

Clint Musser

He has a deep commitment to Catholic education. He, himself, is a product of an all-boys school that has a philosophy that is very similar to the Sacred Heart philosophy.

Mary Burns

That's the Midwestern philosophy of football. We're just a team from down south that is doing it.

Dan Buenning

The CEO's philosophy is, when talking about this industry, experience counts. They value it and see it as a huge commodity.

Deborah Russell

Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

It was founded to afford people to get an education. That philosophy still exists.

Robert Moore

We do have to buy players like Real Madrid and AC Milan so we can't say our philosophy is just to use young players, ... We will bring players in from outside and inside but it is up to me and the academy to make sure the players are good enough.

Frank Arnesen

Proverbs may not improperly be called the philosophy of the common people.

James Howell

We have a difference of philosophy. We don't make a distinction between competitive and recreational play.

Marty Parkes

It has been my philosophy of life that difficulties vanish when faced boldly.

Isaac Asimov

Generally speaking, the errors in religion are dangerous; those in philosophy only ridiculous.

David Hume

Down low, it's going to be a whole different mindset. The coaches are going to have to coach to the new rules and that's going to make for a lot of changes in philosophy.

Kris Draper

My coaching philosophy is very team-oriented. If (DiMaggio) was playing in another program, he might have 1,500 points by now.

Bill Thom

Our philosophy from the beginning has been to build a well known brand.

Gary Gerdemann

There is no philosophy which is not founded upon knowledge of the phenomena, but to get any profit from this knowledge it is absolutely necessary to be a mathematician.

Daniel Bernoulli

I've never adhered to the age philosophy in this country. Every day you should be making a contribution. You should be dead tired at the end of every day.

Rick Clunn

Our philosophy has always been to leave a community better for us having been there.

Tori Rosenthal

I understand the commissions' philosophy of creating opportunity, but you are not going to get recreational opportunity. You are already getting that. What you are going to get is harvest opportunity. The people that are out there already have recreational opportunity.

Phil Durocher

We live in a world in which politics has replaced philosophy.

Martin L. Gross

That's who our boss is. Our philosophy is that we work for the customer.

Daniel Drew

I believe in the philosophy known as 'inclusion' that brings special needs and develops the classroom so it supports learners' styles.

Lynn Carrier Honored

POSITIVISM, n. A philosophy that denies our knowledge of the Real and affirms our ignorance of the Apparent. Its longest exponent is Comte, its broadest Mill and its thickest Spencer.

Ambrose Bierce

I think (familiarity) helped with all three of us on the committee. We all know his philosophy and demeanor on the floor. I like his ideas of how he wants to improve the program.

Linda Jolly

I have a simple philosophy. Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. And scratch where it itches.

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

They did a great job of getting to the free-throw line, and of course my philosophy is hit your free throws and you win.

John Thatcher

Fashion is about change and, for me, the philosophy is always the same ... that the clothes have to be really modern and make women look really beautiful, ... But, it's fun to keep changing and to change the silhouettes, to change the fabrics and to change the color. Color this fall is really going to change too, because there is color.

Calvin Klein

My philosophy, like color television, is all there in black and white.

Monty Python

I don't believe in that philosophy. But I also have a responsibility to my booksellers to look at all the options, and that is an option.

Hut Landon

I think that's an admirable philosophy. But one, you have to win some of those games, and playing teams and not being able to win a certain number of those games in the end can hurt - and can hurt the league, potentially.

Dawn Rogers

Philosophy is the replacement of category-habits by category-disciplines.

Gilbert Ryle

It's always been Tom's philosophy and to this day that if we are going to do it -- we are going to do it right.

Larry W. Arrowood

We haven't changed from day one. There were different offenses, different calls and better execution as the season went on. We never really changed or altered our philosophy. We just executed a little better, especially at the back end after we got through those first games.

Bo Pelini

My philosophy is, don't take no for an answer and be willing to sacrifice your entire project for freedom.

Tim Robbins

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

Coming from Broadway (where he was company manager of 'Phantom'), you learn very quickly you must support and assist the casino in their overall goals if you expect that philosophy to be reciprocal.

Michael Gill