Philosophy is the microscope of thought. Everything desires to flee from it, but nothing escapes it.

To live on the land we must learn from the ocean, to be true as the tide and free as the wind swell.

Don't borrow someone else's plan. Develop your own philosophy and it will lead you to unique places.

The philosophy of the wisest man that ever existed, is mainly derived from the act of introspection.

I believe philosophy must go to school with the poets; it's not either/or, it's not over or against.

A philosophy that begins in doubt assails what no-one believes, and invites us to nothing believable

All the most prominent Darwinists proclaim naturalistic philosophy when they think it safe to do so.

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

The bureaucracy is a circle from which no one can escape. Its hierarchy is a hierarchy of knowledge.

I don't master my craft or my style enough to have any philosophy or dogma to which I feel I belong.

My philosophy is fundamentally sad, but I'm not a sad man, and I don't believe I sadden anyone else.

There can be no progress-real, moral prgress-except in the individual and by the individual himself.

This is the philosophy of nonviolence that I have learned from Gandhi, Bacha Khan and Mother Teresa.

We must re-center philosophy within our frame of reference which I think is the way to deal with it.

Naturally, the Zen Master Rama philosophy is to have a high state of awareness and material success.

It is an acknowledged truth in philosophy that a just theory will always be confirmed by experiment.

Time to go inward would you believe that I'm afraid to stare down the barrel of choices I have made.

[...] to introduce into the philosophy of war itself a principle of moderation would be an absurdity

Reality has always proved to be much more sophisticated and subtle than any preconceived philosophy.

The Linux philosophy is "laugh in the face of danger". Oops. Wrong one. "Do it yourself". That's it.

As is the inventor of murder, and the father of art, Cain must have been a man of first-rate genius.

The point of philosophy, as I see it, is to change thinking, and thereby to change the conversation.

The search for something permanent is one of the deepest of the instincts leading men to philosophy.

We are much beholden to Machiavel and others, that write what men do, and not what they ought to do.

Theology sits rouged at the window and courts philosophy's favor, offering to sell her charms to it.

From out of all the many particulars comes oneness, and out of oneness come all the many particulars.

I was within and without. Simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life.

Hillary Clinton appears to believe in a form of stoicism - which is a tried and true life philosophy.

Bodies do not produce sensations, but complexes of elements (complexes of sensations) make up bodies.

My philosophy is that if I have any money I invest it in new ventures and not have it sitting around.

Especially the transcendental philosophy needs the leaven of humor to render it light and digestible.

To some of us the thought of God is like a sort of quiet music playing in the background of the mind.

I discovered philosophy in my youth when I read wildly, and thus I was exposed to the world of ideas.

I do not presume that I have found the best philosophy, I know that I understand the true philosophy.

The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.

In theology we must consider the predominance of authority; in philosophy the predominance of reason.

Philosophy addresses, in a systematic and progress-making way, questions of deep concern to everyone.

So many differing opinions and philosophies... are rarely housed under the roof of a single magazine.

For my own part, I would rather excel in knowledge of the highest secrets of philosophy than in arms.

Yes, obviously, there's this degree of wanting people to accept other people faiths and philosophies.

Tell me what gives a man or woman their greatest pleasure and I'll tell you their philosophy of life.

Philosophy is the childhood of the intellect, and a culture that tries to skip it will never grow up.

I like my body when it is with your body. It is so quite new a thing. Muscles better and nerves more.

Let animals live like animals; let humans live like humans. That's my whole philosophy in a sentence.

Philosophy should be an energy; it should find its aim and its effect in the amelioration of mankind.

I believe in the Democratic party, and their philosophy and what they stand for - for the poor people.

We must reason in natural philosophy not from what we hope, or even expect, but from what we perceive.

It is expedient that there should be gods, and, since it is expedient, let us believe that gods exist.

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

The philosophies behind meditation are very current today and are a way of finding some sort of peace.

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