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Philosophy is the self-correction by consciousness of its own initial excess of subjectivity.
Philosophy may describe unreasoning, as it may describe force; it cannot hope to refute them.
I should like to abolish funerals; the time to mourn a person is at his birth, not his death.
I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
We have no firm hold on any knowledge or philosophy that can lift us out of our difficulties.
The history of philosophy is to a great extent that of a certain clash of human temperaments.
Tis true, 'tis certain; man, though dead, retains Part of himself; the immortal mind remains.
Fly silly sea bird, no dreams can possess you, no voices can blame you for sun on your wings.
The poet uses the results of science and philosophy, and generalizes their widest deductions.
My philosophy in life is, Decide what you want to do. You have to have something to hope for.
Don't see anything impossible! This simple philosophy will enable many things to be possible!
Shamanism is just show business and philosophy is just a branch of that vaudevillian impulse.
Careerism: the self-centered philosophy of governing to win the next election above all else.
Science must not impose any philosophy, any more than the telephone must tell us what to say.
Tantric Buddhism means that we become mature adults and we learn the reality of chaos theory.
To become a popular religion, it is only necessary for a superstition to enslave a philosophy.
Philosophy when superficially studied, excites doubt, when thoroughly explored, it dispels it.
Philosophy, having crept clinging to the rocks so far, puts out its feelers many ways in vain.
My philosophy is this: Do not tamper with the anatomy of a woman's body; do not camouflage it.
Man [is] a rational animal, endowed by nature with rights and with an innate sense of justice.
Man is always prey to his truths. Once he has admitted them, he cannot free himself from them.
The violence had broken out in both sides, but our philosophy as a party was very, very clear.
According to the saying of an ancient philosopher, one should eat to live, and not live to eat
In the western philosophy you can't perceive infinities at every moment. It's not there to do.
I'm a believer in the parent first, friend second philosophy, and trying to find that balance.
The person that turns over the most rocks wins the game. And that's always been my philosophy.
Only he who does not seek to be ahead of others is capable of living in harmony with everyone.
The height of all philosophy is to know thyself; and the end of this knowledge is to know God.
My feeling or philosophy is closer to Taoism and Zen Buddhism, 'cause it's the most practical.
Generally speaking, the errors in religion are dangerous; those in philosophy only ridiculous.
I got my best foot forward onto greener grass, cause there ain't no future living in the past.
Take a little time out of your busy day to give encouragement to someone who's lost their way.
The true Philosophy, known and practised by Solomon, is the basis on which Masonry is founded.
[P]hilosophy . . .consists chiefly in suggesting unintelligible answers to insoluble problems.
A preoccupation with the next world clearly shows an inability to cope credibly with this one.
Philosophy! Empty thinking by ignorant conceited men who think they can digest without eating!
Given that we can live only a small part of what there is in us -- what happens with the rest?
Philosophy ... bears witness to the deepest love of reflection, to absolute delight in wisdom.
We may receive so much light as not to see, and so much philosophy as to be worse than foolish.
Philosophy easily triumphs over past and future ills; but present ills triumph over philosophy.
Let none presume to measure the irregularities of Michael Angelo or Socrates by village scales.
Unfortunately, I'm not a person that's always capable of living up to the Boy Scout philosophy.
No philosophy based on an incorrect view of the nature of man is likely to produce social good.
Philosophy goes no further than probabilities, and in every assertion keeps a doubt in reserve.
Everything must justify its existence before the judgment seat of Reason, or give up existence.
The poet may be used as a barometer, but let us not forget that he is also part of the weather.
I just learned my lyrics and tried not to bump into the trumpet player. That was my philosophy.
Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck.
It is difficult to connect general principles with such thoroughly concrete things as children.