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We all more or less consciously note this. We cannot help observing that all serious conversations gravitate towards philosophy.
The philosophy of life is this: Life is not a struggle, not a tension... Life is bliss. It is eternal wisdom, eternal existence.
Academe, n.: An ancient school where morality and philosophy were taught. Academy, n.: A modern school where football is taught.
And truly Philosophy is but sophisticated poetry. Whence do those ancient writers derive all their authority but from the poets?
If Martin [Luther King, Jr.]'s philosophy had been embraced and lived out in Iraq and other places, we wouldn't have bin Ladens.
The few existing writings against Kantian philosophy are the most important documents in the case history of sound common sense.
I am interested in study, reflection, philosophy - but always as a dilettante. I also consider myself a dilettante as a painter.
In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad.
I came into acting with that sort of dull, meet-with-triumph-and-disaster-the-same philosophy and it's been the right one for me.
Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions, and can never pretend to any other office than to serve and obey them.
There is no place in the world, I imagine, for a philosopher with a sense of humor, a new leisure, and an inquiring turn of mind!
McCarthy generally, as an individual, was a liberal. He was, in economic philosophy and a lot of other things, extremely liberal.
Man, whatever else he may be, is primarily a practical being, whose mind is given him to aid in adapting him to this world's life
Philosophers are never happy here. Now is not their time, and here is not their space. They live there, they live somewhere else.
A critical part of Tantric Buddhism is a process of turning of the activities and experiences in your daily life into meditation.
The seed of suffering in you may be strong, but don't wait until you have no more suffering before allowing yourself to be happy.
Mere philosophy will not satisfy us. We cannot reach the goal by mere words alone. Without practice, nothing can be achieved. (3)
If I had my life to live over again, I'd run barefoot, relax a bit more, I'd talk more to children, and I'd learn how they laugh.
Zen is not a philosophy, it is poetry. It does not propose, it simply persuades. It does not argue, it simply sings its own song.
Philosophy stands in need of a science which shall determine the possibility, principles, and extent of human knowledge à priori.
One road was simple acceptance of life, the other road offered sweet peace. When I made my decision, my vision became my release.
A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.
Man's mind cannot grasp the causes of events in their completeness, but the desire to find the causes is implanted in man's soul.
Economic freedom has no security without political freedom, and political freedom can find its security only in economic freedom.
We need a moral philosophy in which the concept of love, so rarely mentioned now by philosophers, can once again be made central.
If a philosopher is not a man, he is anything but a philosopher; he is above all a pedant, and a pedant is a caricature of a man.
In Tantric Buddhism we call the inherent knowledge that all animate and inanimate objects possess of themselves - their emptiness.
I have a friend who lives by a three-word philosophy: Seize the Moment. Just possibly, she may be the wisest woman on this planet.
Saints cannot arise where there have been no warriors, nor philosophers where a prying beast does not remain hidden in the depths.
My uncle developed the training philosophy. His idea of good tennis training is basically quite simple: you must try to gain time.
My philosophy is always, "Let's get the spirit of the character." If people believe in it and the spirit of it, then it will work.
Buddhism has become a socially recognized religious philosophy for Americans, whereas it used to be considered an exotic religion.
Cruyff defined a philosophy and a style of how we had to play: positional play, type of players, the profile of the coaches, even.
There is a ... matter - much more valuable and divine than natural philosophy . ... On this matter I must speak to you in enigmas.
Mrs. Wiggs was a philosopher, and the sum and substance of her philosophy lay in keeping the dust off her rose-colored spectacles.
It won't do you any good to run if you're running the wrong way. I've developed a new philosophy...I only dread one day at a time.
I arrived from Harvard, where I had studied philosophy and the history of ideas, with a bias toward literature and formal thought.
The God to whom depth in philosophy bring back men's minds is far from being the same from whom a little philosophy estranges them
All the progress we have made in philosophy ... is the result of that methodical skepticism which is the element of human freedom.
Tantra is for the advanced spiritual practitioner who is ready to push aside spiritual practice in the name of spiritual practice.
Always laugh when you can; it is cheap medicine. Merriment is a philosophy not well understood. It is the sunny side of existence.
Greek is a musical and prolific language, that gives a soul to the objects of sense, and a body to the abstractions of philosophy.
Any materialist philosophy must take as its point of departure the existence of a material world that is independent of our minds.
We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values.
Being our Self is the wisest philosophy, the bravest action, the kindest consideration and the greatest act of healing imaginable.
A philosophy may explain difficult things, but has no power to change them. The gospel, the story of Jesus' life, promises change.
The sides are steep and the nights are long and cold down in the hole, light and love and the world above mean nothing to the mole.
The philosopher is he to whom the highest has descended, and the lowest has mounted up; who is the equal and kindly brother of all.
Moral relativism has a reputation for being compassionate, caring and humane, but it is an extremely useful philosophy for tyrants.
In Hungary, acting is a career for which one fits himself as earnestly as one studies for a degree in medicine, law, or philosophy.