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New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common.
If we include hedonistic philosophy in hospitals, the lives of patients suffering from cancer would be much, much better.
The astonishment of life is the absence of any appearances of reconciliation between the theory and the practice of life.
Attention to detail can't be (and never is) added later. It's an entire development philosophy, methodology, and culture.
A work should convey its entire meaning by itself, imposing it on the spectator even before he knows what the subject is.
Life does not agree with philosophy: There is no happiness that is not idleness, and only what is useless is pleasurable.
Challenges are gifts that force us to search for a new center of gravity. Don't fight them. Just find a new way to stand.
Neither party has God on its side, a monopoly on good ideas, or a lock on any single fiscal, social, or moral philosophy.
Those who advocate common usage in philosophy sometimes speak in a manner that suggests the mystique of the 'common man.'
Without ego I don't know how identity works, I don't know... I need to sit down and re-read some philosophy or something.
All we know of science or of religion comes from philosophy. It lies behind and above all other knowledge we have or use.
Attention to the human body brings healing and regeneration. Through awareness of the body we remember who we really are.
Philosophy is regarded by many as inseparable from speculation. ... Philosophy has proceeded from speculation to science.
Anyone can keep going in an easy situation, but do you have a philosophy which can enable you to meet the worst hardship?
Talking high philosophy often confuses people, but a look from an egoless person can lift the clouds of pain and despair.
Mathematics is, as it were, a sensuous logic, and relates to philosophy as do the arts, music, and plastic art to poetry.
Being a victim is more palatable than having to recognize the intrinsic contradictions of one's own governing philosophy.
My whole philosophy is working smarter and not harder. And making sure I'm using little effort and getting a huge effect.
Let philosophy resolutely aim to be as scientific as possible, but let her not forget her strong kinship with literature.
Investment philosophy is the clear understanding that by owning shares of stocks he owns businesses, not pieces of paper.
Abandoned by philosophy, politics, and sociology, historical determinism continues to hold out in formalist art criticism.
As long as I am running this Government I will run the Government as I see fit... as I believe in, based on my philosophy.
I am concerned, rather, that there should not be more things dreamt of in my philosophy than there are in heaven or earth.
Marx called religion an opiate, and all too often it is. But philosophy is an anaesthetic, a shot to keep the wonder away.
Reason is itself a matter of faith. It is an act of faith to assert that our thoughts have any relation to reality at all.
When you choose one way out of many, all the ways you don't take are snuffed out like candles, as if they'd never existed.
every human activity, whether it be love, philosophy, art, or revolution, is carried on with a special intensity in Paris.
The tree of life is growing where the spirit never dies, and the bright light of salvation shines in dark and empty skies.
Plain women he regarded as he did the other severe facts of life, to be faced with philosophy and investigated by science.
I very rarely read any fiction. I love biographies; I read about all kinds of people. I love theology and some philosophy.
Democracy is not a form of government. It is a political philosophy that can be embodied in various systems of government.
The methods by which a trade union can alone act, are necessarily destructive; its organization is necessarily tyrannical.
Without the communist oppression, I am absolutely sure I would now be a local stupid professor of philosophy in Ljubljana.
The Darwinian concept of the survival of the fittest has been substituted by a philosophy of the survival of the slickest.
If I could only fly, you see, a lot of my problems would be gone. When you think of just how much I'd save on shoes alone.
The Philosophy of Princes is to dive into the Secrets of men, leaving the secrets of nature to those that have spare time.
You think that way as you begin to get grayer and you see pretty plainly that the game is not going to end as you planned.
Religion without philosophy is sentiment, or sometimes fanaticism, while philosophy without religion is mental speculation.
Philosophy begins when one learns to doubt -- particularly to doubt one's cherished beliefs, one's dogmas and one's axioms.
The common prejudice against philosophy is the result of the incapacity of the multitude to deal with the highest problems.
Greek philosophy seems to have met with something with which a good tragedy is not supposed to meet, namely, a dull ending.
A liberal is only a bundle of prejudices until he has mastered, has understood, experienced the philosophy of Conservatism.
I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
The dust will not settle in our time. And when it does some great roaring machine will come and whirl it all skyhigh again.
The philosophy of hedonism means little to lovers of pleasure. They have no inclination to read philosophy, or to write it.
Philosophy is in fact a quest for wisdom based in sophia; that quest for wisdom has everything to do with a love of wisdom.
The philosophy of jazz represents tolerance, teamwork and inclusion. That's what America is about. The music reflects that.
I do not have much liking for the too famous existential philosophy, and, to tell the truth, I think its conclusions false.
Philosophy has a great sort of appeal in terms of an artistic or aesthetic organization of concepts. It's a conceptual art.
I'm a dweller of the threshold and I'm waiting at the door, and I'm standing in the darkness, I don't want to wait no more.