Philosophy Quotes - Page 16

• Our philosophy is we call it as we see it. Sometimes you agree, sometimes you don't. Robust debate is good.

  Bill O'Reilly

  Business, Believe, Sometimes

  "Letterman Denounces Iraq War, Sheehan Critics". www.newsbusters.org. January 3, 2006.

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• Englishmen are babes in philosophy and so prefer faction-fighting to the labour of its unfamiliar thought.

  William Butler Yeats

  Fighting, Philosopher, Babe

  "The Letters of W.B. Yeats".

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• The very existence of armaments and great armies psychologically accustoms us to accept the philosophy of militarism. They inevitably increase fear and hate in the world.

  Norman Thomas

  War, Hate, Army

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• While some might mistakenly consider value investing a mechanical tool for identifying bargains, it is actually a comprehensive investment philosophy that emphasizes the need to perform in-depth fundamental analysis, pursue long-term investment results, limit risk, and resist crowd psychology.

  Seth Klarman

  Intelligent, Long, Psychology

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• There is nothing in philosophy which could not be said in everyday language.

  Henri Bergson

  Everyday, Language, Said

  Henri Bergson (2012). “Time and Free Will: An Essay on the Immediate Data of Consciousness”, p.264, Courier Corporation

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• Whenever I draw a circle, I immediately want to step out of it.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Circles, Want, Steps

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• Modern man lives increasingly in the future and neglects the present.

  Loren Eiseley

  Life, Future, Men

  Loren Eiseley (2016). “The Night Country: A Library of America eBook Classic”, p.50, Library of America

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• The future is neither ahead nor behind, on one side or another. Nor is it dark or light. It is contained within ourselves; its evil and good are perpetually within us.

  Loren Eiseley

  Time, Dark, Light

  Loren Eiseley (2016). “The Night Country: A Library of America eBook Classic”, p.63, Library of America

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• Mind is locked in matter like the spirit Ariel in a cloven pine. Like Ariel, men struggle to escape the drag of the matter they inhabit, yet it is the spirit that they fear.

  Loren Eiseley

  Fear, Struggle, Men

  Loren Eiseley (2016). “The Night Country: A Library of America eBook Classic”, p.121, Library of America

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• 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.

  Loren Eiseley

  Thinking, Games, Way

  Loren Eiseley (2016). “The Night Country: A Library of America eBook Classic”, p.148, Library of America

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• Only in the struggle between two philosophies can the weapon of brutal force, persistently and ruthlessly applied, lead to a decision for the side it supports.

  Adolf Hitler

  Struggle, Two, Support

  Adolf Hitler (1998). “Mein Kampf”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• To me this is the most beautiful, the most satisfactory from a scientific standpoint, the most logical theory of life. For thirty years I have leaned toward the theory of Reincarnation. It seems a most reasonable philosophy and explains many things.

  Henry Ford

  Beautiful, Years, Reincarnation

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• [The taxing power of the state] divides the community into two great classes: one consisting of those who, in reality, pay the taxes and, of course, bear exclusively the burden of supporting the government; and the other, of those who are the recipients of their proceeds through disbursements,and who are, in fact, supported by the government; or, in fewer words, to divide it into tax-payers and tax-consumers. But the effect of this is to place them in antagonistic relations in reference to the fiscal action of the government and the entire course of policy therewith connected.

  John C. Calhoun

  Reality, Class, Two

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• What must never be lost sight of is that a public functionary, in his capacity as functionary, produces absolutely nothing; that, on the contrary, he exists only on the products of the industrious class; and that he can consume nothing that has not been taken from the producers.

  Charles Dunoyer

  Taken, Class, Sight

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• Capitalism is the exploitation of man by man. Well socialism is exactly the reverse.

  Len Deighton

  Men, Political, Socialism

  Len Deighton (1964). “Funeral in Berlin”, HarperCollins UK

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• Any union that can't accept workers choosing their own representatives through universal franchise is finished.

  Jacques Delors

  Political, Unions, Economics

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• Poorly paid labor is inefficient labor, the world over.

  Henry George

  Economic Inequality, Political, Labor Day

  Henry George (1911). “The complete works of Henry George”

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• The march of invention has clothed mankind with powers of which a century ago the boldest imagination could not have dreamt.

  Henry George

  Imagination, Political, March

  Louis Freeland Post, Henry George (1899). “The Single Tax: An Explanation, with Colored Charts and Illustrated Notes of the Land, Labor, and Fiscal Reform Advocated by Henry George”

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• The methods by which a trade union can alone act, are necessarily destructive; its organization is necessarily tyrannical.

  Henry George

  Organization, Political, Unions

  Henry George (1911). “perplexed philosopher [Herbert Spencer”

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• Socialist thought owes its appeal to the young largely to its visionary character; the very courage to indulge in Utopian thought is in this respect a source of strength for socialism which traditional liberalism sadly lacks. Speculation about general principles provides an opportunity for the play of the imagination of those who are unencumbered by much knowledge of the facts of present-day life. Their ideas suffer from inherent contradictions, and any attempt to put them into practice must produce something utterly different from what they expect.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Character, Opportunity, Practice

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• It is perhaps the most characteristic feature of the intellectual that he judges new ideas not by their specific merits but by the readiness with which they fit into his general conceptions, into the picture of the world which he regards as modern or advanced.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Ideas, Judging, Political

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• One or another man, liberated or cursed, suddenly sees-but even this man sees rarely-that all we are is what we aren't, that we fool ourselves about what's true and are wrong about what we conclude is right. And this man, who in a flash sees the universe naked, creates a philosophy or dreams up a religion; and the philosophy spreads and the religion propagates, and those who believe in the philosophy begin to wear it as a suit they don't see, and those who believe in the religion put it on as a mask they soon forget.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Dream, Philosophical, Believe

  "The Book of Disquiet". Book by Fernando Pessoa, p. 255, 1982.

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• That is what the highest criticism really is, the record of one's own soul. It is more fascinating than history, as it is concerned simply with oneself. It is more delightful than philosophy, as its subject is concrete and not abstract, real and not vague. It is the only civilized form of autobiography.

  Oscar Wilde

  Real, Soul, Criticism

  Oscar Wilde (1969). “The Artist as Critic: Critical Writings of Oscar Wilde”, p.365, University of Chicago Press

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• I would welcome the passing of the idea of philosophy as defined by a method of conceptual analysis. But that is not the passing of philosophy, and it leaves the philosopher with the task of grasping natures or essences (among other things).

  Robert Adams

  Philosophical, Essence, Ideas

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• The philosopher is like a man fasting in the midst of universal intoxication. He alone perceives the illusion of which all creatures are the willing playthings; he is less duped than his neighbor by his own nature. He judges more sanely, he sees things as they are. It is in this that his liberty consists - in the ability to see clearly and soberly, in the power of mental record.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Philosophical, Men, Judging

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