There is just one life for
each of us: our own.
Author: Euripedes
Philosophy: A route of many roads
leading from nowhere to nothing.
Author: Ambrose Bierce
The incomparable stupidity
of life teaches us to love our parents; divine philosophy teaches us to
forgive them
Author: Baron de la Brede et de Montesquieu
The modern conservative
is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is,
the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.
Author: John Kenneth Galbraith
The philosophy exam was
a piece of cake -- which was a bit of a surprise, actually, because I was
expecting some questions on a sheet of paper.
Author: Smith & Jones
The point of philosophy
is to start with something so simple as not to seem worth stating, and to
end with something so paradoxical that no one will believe it.
Author: Bertrand Russel
The society which scorns
excellence in plumbing because plumbing is a humble activity, and tolerates
shoddiness in philosophy because philosophy is an exalted activity, will
have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy. Neither its pipes nor its
theories will hold water.
Author: John W(illiam) Gardner
The stoical scheme of
supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our
feet when we want shoes.
Author: Jonathan Swift
There are now-a-days professors
of philosophy but not philosophers.
Author: Henry David Thoreau
There are three schools of magic.
One: State a tautology, then ring the changes on its corollaries; that's philosophy.
Two: Record many facts. Try to find a pattern. Then make a wrong guess at
the next fact; that's science. Three: Be aware that you live
Author: Fortune
This
is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated
philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is
kindness.
Author: Dalai Lama
To persevere is always
a reflection of the state of one's inner life, one's philosophy and one's
perspective
Author: David Guterson
We are not abandoning
our convictions, our philosophy or traditions, nor do we urge anyone to
abandon theirs.
Author: Mikhail Gorbachev
We are not abandoning
our convictions, our philosophy or traditions, nor do we urge anyone to
abandon theirs.
Author: Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev
We must exchange the philosophy
of excuse--what I am is beyond my control--for the philosophy of responsibility.
Author: Barbara Charline Jordan
Without music life would
be a mistake
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
Your philosophy determines
whether you will go for the diciplines or continue the errors
Author: Anonymous
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