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George Santayana

???[F]orms and events conjoin at their disjunctive syntheses, and all forms and all events conjoin under the single aleatory point that is Being. For example, consider white light. When shown through a prism, white light separates into red, orange, yellow,

Claude L??vi-Strauss

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Arthur Schopenhauer

http://web.ics.purdue.edu/~wjpeck/mathesis.pdf

Socrates

Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.

Wilfred Sellars

Nietzsche was personally more philosophical than his philosophy. His talk about power, harshness, and superb immorality was the hobby of a harmless young scholar and constitutional invalid.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you???ll be happy; if not, you???ll become a philosopher.

Jonathan Swift

The aim of philosophy is to understand how things in the broadest possible sense of the term hang together in the broadest possible sense of the term.

Cicero

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

Barbara Charline Jordan

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

Dalai Lama

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.

Francis Bacon

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

John W. Gardner

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.

John W. Gardner

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.

John Adams

I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. My sons ought to study mathematics and philosophy, geograhy, natural history, naval architecture, navigation, commerce, and agriculture, in order to give thei

Lin Yutang

'I have done my best.' That is about all the philosophy of living one needs.

Dionysius

History is philosophy teaching by example.

Ernest Dimnet

All serious conversations gravitate towards philosophy.

Aristotle

Philosophy is the science which considers truth.

Sydney Harris

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

Charles M. Schulz

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

Aristotle

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

Frank Lloyd Wright

Art for art's sake is a philosophy of the well-fed.

Charles M. Schulz

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

Unknown

Your philosophy determines whether you will go for the diciplines or continue the errors.

Epictetus

All philosophy lies in two words Sustain and Abstain.

Charlie Brown

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

Anon.

Philosophy is a study that lets us be unhappy more intelligently.

Henry St. John Bolingbroke

History is philosophy teaching by examples.

Melvin Fitting

Of course I believe that solipsism is the correct philosophy, but that's only one man's opinion.

Victor Cousin

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

Martin L. Gross

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

Thornton

My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just enjoy your ice cream while it's on your plate--that's my philosophy.

Henry David Thoreau

There are now-a-days professors of philosophy but not philosophers.

Kahlil Gibran

Keep me away from the wisdom that does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children.

Augustine Birrell

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

Marcus Tullius Cicero

It is certain that memory contains not only philosophy, but all the arts and all that appertain to the use of life.

Epictetus

The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.

William Shakespeare

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

Bertrand Russell

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.

Epictetus

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.

Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev

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

Linus Torvalds

The Linux philosophy is 'Laugh in the face of danger'. Oops. Wrong One. 'Do it yourself'. Yes, that's it.

James A. Garfield

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

Bertrand Russell

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.

Sybil Adelman

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.

Henry David Thoreau

I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business.

William Butler Yeats

People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind.

George Bernard Shaw

A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.

Albert Camus

There is but one truly serious philosophical problem, and that is suicide. Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the fundamental question of philosophy.

Isaac Asimov

Jokes of the proper kind, properly told, can do more to enlighten questions of politics, philosophy, and literature than any number of dull arguments.

KEATS: _Lamia,_ Pt. ii.

There was an awful rainbow once in heaven: We know her woof, her texture; she is given In the dull catalogue of common things. Philosophy will clip an angel's wings.

John Adams

I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.

Clive Staples Lewis

Friendship is not necessary, like philosophy, like art.... It has no survival value rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.

C. S. Lewis

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.

Clarence Thomas

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

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Life is a gift of the immortal Gods, but living well is the gift of philosophy.

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

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

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

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

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 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.

The society which scorns excellence in plumbing as a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exaulted activity will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy...neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water.

I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. My sons ought to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history, naval architecture, navigation, commerce, and agriculture, in order to give the

Leisure is the mother of philosophy.

Philosophy is the highest music.

Any philosophy that can be put in a nutshell belongs there

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

Do all the work you can; that is the whole philosophy of the good way of life.

The philosophy of one century is the common sense of the next.

Music is a higher revelation than philosophy.

Any philosophy that can be put in a nutshell belongs therC

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

Philosophy is a walk on the slippery rocks.

You must learn some of my philosophy. Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure.

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

Religion is a man using a divining rod. Philosophy is a man using a pick and shovel.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Having a personal philosophy is like having a pet marmoset, because it may be very attractive when you acquire it, but there may be situations when it will not come in handy at all.

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.

To choose doubt as a philosophy of life is akin to choosing immobility as a means of transportation.

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

A great philosophy is not one that passes final judgments and establishes ultimate truth. It is one that causes uneasiness and starts commotion.

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.

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

"Your Time Lord philosophy is egalitarian twaddle!" -Linx

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.

"All philosophy is a form of confession." - Friedrich Nietzsche

"Religion is superstition enslaving a philosophy." - Inge

"Philosophy is the talk on a cereal box." - Edie Brickell

"My personal philosophy is my music..." - Jimi Hendrix

"The proletariat finds its intellectual weapons in philosophy."

"Masturbation is to sex as philosophy is to real life." -- K. Marx

"It's our problem free philosophy- Hakuna Matata!"

"I get so tickled debunking bad personal philosophy!" - Milquetoast

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... it has no survival value; rather is one of those things that give value to survival.

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art...It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.

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.

"Someday I'll write my own philosophy book." - Calvin

The most important principle of divine philosophy is the oneness of the world of humanity, the unity of mankind, the bond conjoining East and West, the tie of love which blends human hearts.

"My God, as if religion and philosophy aren't bad enough!" - Dire Wolf

"History is philosophy from examples." -- Dionysius

"Every other philosophy feels the need to overpower the body."

"Bruce here teaches classical philosophy."

"Semantical Philosophy, butthead!" -- Tom Servo