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The message of guidance that neither politics nor philosophy nor religion now seems able to provide, we look for in modern literature.
Become enraptured by the sights and sounds in intrigue of nature and beauty, come along with me and take it all in. Come here my love.
There follows a little obscenity here, a dash of philosophy there, considerable whining overall, and a modern satirical novel is born.
We live in a war of two antagonistic ethical philosophies, the ethical policy taught in the books and schools, and the success policy.
We need an approach to ethics which makes no recourse to religion and can be equally acceptable to those with faith and those without.
I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business.
My philosophy about the whole thing is that awards are like gifts: it's lovely to receive them, and it is very bad form to covet them.
There is philosophy, which is about conceptual analysis - about the meaning of what we say - and there is all of this ... all of life.
The human mind and the entire life process is chaotic. Chaos is not something that lacks order; chaos has varieties of order within it.
How often one sees people looking far and wide for what they are holding in their hands? Why! I am doing it myself at this very moment.
Men are not allowed to think freely about chemistry and biology: why should they be allowed to think freely about political philosophy?
Today, I think, the state of philosophizing about democracy is very healthy. It bridges political science and philosophy, as it should.
It's always been my philosophy to try to make art out of the everyday and ordinary...it never occurred to me to leave home to make art.
Your body is the ground metaphor of your life, the expression of your existence. It is your Bible, your encyclopaedia, your life story.
Tantra works well for people who are engaged in relationships and sexuality. Sex itself is just an action. It's just part of the dream.
When you realize there is something you don't understand, then you're generally on the right path to understanding all kinds of things.
In this world we see the pairs of opposites. Ultimately there are no oppositions. In the superconscious awareness there is no division.
Touch is the mother of the senses. Not only are women more sensitive when they touch, but they're also more sensitive to being touched.
It is absolutely bedrock to the British Army's philosophy that a commanding officer is responsible for what goes on within his command.
Nihilism has no substance. There is no such thing as nothingness, and zero does not exist. Everything is something. Nothing is nothing.
The British philosopher Bertrand Russell said that philosophy went downhill after Democritus and did not recover until the Renaissance.
Fight Club is a thrill ride masquerading as philosophy - the kind of ride where some people puke and others can't wait to get on again.
I took inspiration from 'Fountainhead,' the way in which Ayn Rand conveyed her political philosophy through an immensely popular novel.
Plato worried that philosophical writing would take the place of living conversations for which, in philosophy, there is no substitute.
Logic is the last scientific ingredient of Philosophy; its extraction leaves behind only a confusion of non-scientific, pseudo problems.
My philosophy towards life is to enjoy it to the fullest and have fun. I am one of those 'laugh-out-loud' kinds. I am quirky, yet witty.
Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy. Music is the electrical soil in which the spirit lives, thinks and invents.
Sensual is everything that refers to the delight of the senses. And that's what artists do, is stimulate the senses in any possible way.
Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before.
The promise of business is to increase the general well-being of humankind through service, a creative invention and ethical philosophy.
And now it seems she's on my wavelength. That's all I need. My mind isn't much of a comfort to me but at least I thought it was private.
The philosophies of one age have become the absurdities of the next, and the foolishness of yesterday has become the wisdom of tomorrow.
[I am against] the Treaty of Rome which entrenches laissez faire as its philosophy and chooses bureaucracy as its administrative method.
If you have to write a fictional adventure to convey a philosophy of evil, the best person is the destroyer of evil himself, Lord Shiva.
REALITY, n. The dream of a mad philosopher. That which would remain in the cupel if one should assay a phantom. The nucleus of a vacuum.
To the poet, to the philosopher, to the saint, all things are friendly and sacred, all events profitable, all days holy, all men divine.
Philosophy is man’s expression of curiosity about everything and his attempt to make sense of the world primarily through his intellect.
She chased after her dream with much desire, but when she got to close to her expectations, well the dream burned up like paper in fire.
I have desired to do good, but I have not desired to make noise, because I have felt that noise did no good and that good made no noise.
To ask whether the natural rights philosophy of the Declaration of Independence is true or false, is essentially a meaningless question.
Nanny's philosophy of life was to do what seemed like a good idea at the time, and do it as hard as possible. It had never let her down.
Optimism is a philosophy based on the belief that basically life is good, that, in the long run, the good in life overbalances the evil.
Sometimes a simple, almost insignificant gesture on the part of a teacher can have a profound formative effect on the life of a student.
It is right noble to fight with wickedness and wrong; the mistake is in supposing that spiritual evil can be overcome by physical means.
Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.
Non est ad astra mollis e terris via. That's my philosophy. Its a quote from the past. "There is no easy way from the earth to the stars.
India has left a deeper mark upon the history the philosophy and the religion of mankind than any other terrestrial unit in the universe.
I do not own a single security anywhere that doesn't pay a dividend, and I formed a mutual-fund company with that very simple philosophy.
I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road.
Ain't it hard when you discover that, he wasn't really where it's at, after he took from you everything he could steal. How does it feel?