Philosophy Quotes - Page 35

• God bless America. But God, please help Canada.

  Christopher Titus

  Philosophical, America, Canada

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• Passion, manners, and 80 ounces of beer will win the heart of any woman. And if it doesn't, you'll be too hammered to remember.

  Christopher Titus

  Philosophical, Passion, Heart

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Revenge is good. It's what separates us from the animals and the hippies.

  Christopher Titus

  Revenge, Hippie, Philosophical

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Screwed-up people settle fights through violence. Screwed-up people start wars that could kill millions. Normal people settle fights through cookies, cakes, and pies. Normal people are fat.

  Christopher Titus

  War, Philosophical, Fighting

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• This, in my judgment, is the highest philosophy: First, do not regret having lost yesterday; second, do not fear that you will lose tomorrow; third, enjoy today.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Attitude, Regret, Yesterday

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• When passions and appetites are stronger than the intellect, men are savages; when the intellect governs the passions, when the passions are servants, men are civilized. The people need education - facts - philosophy.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Passion, Men, People

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The Works of Robert G.Ingersoll. [Dresden Ed.]”

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• The theory that everyone acts from self-interest, direct or indirect, is psychologically unsound. . . . Throughout history . . . there have been millions of men and women with some sort of Humanist philosophy who have consciously given up their lives for a social ideal.

  Corliss Lamont

  Men, Self, Human Nature

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• Between what human beings so naively and stupidly fear and what they most profoundly ought to fear-i.e. what they so pathogenically and addictively do to their own selves-there is a horrendous gulf and disparity.

  Kenny Smith

  Fear, Self, Disparity

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• I very much dislike doctrinaire liberals - they want to own your minds. And I don't like reactionary conservatives. I like to face issues in terms of conditions and not in terms of someone's inborn political philosophy.

  Carl Albert

  Issues, Political, Mind

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• God is a synergetic experience. Science can never reveal it, philosophy can never come to it - only a poetic approach, a very passive, very loving approach, can.

  Rajneesh

  Inspirational, Relaxation, Poetic

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• And though the philosopher may live remote from business, the genius of philosophy, if carefully cultivated by several, must gradually diffuse itself throughout the whole society, and bestow a similar correctness on every art and calling.

  David Hume

  Art, Political, Genius

  David Hume (1826). “The Philosophical Works: Including All the Essays, and Exhibiting the More Important Alterations and Corrections in the Successive Ed. Publ. by the Author”, p.9

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• It seems then, say I, that you leave politics entirely out of the question, and never suppose, that a wise magistrate can justly be jealous of certain tenets of philosophy, such as those of Epicurus, which, denying a divine existence, and consequently a providence and a future state, seem to loosen, in a great measure, the ties of morality, and may be supposed, for that reason, pernicious to the peace of civil society.

  David Hume

  Wise, Jealous, Ties

  David Hume, Tom L. Beauchamp (2000). “An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding: A Critical Edition”, p.101, Oxford University Press

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• A man who has cured himself of all ridiculous prepossessions, and is fully, sincerely, and steadily convinced, from experience as well as philosophy, that the difference of fortune makes less difference in happiness than is vulgarly imagined; such a one does not measure out degrees of esteem according to the rent-rolls of his acquaintance. ... his internal sentiments are more regulated by the personal characters of men, than by the accidental and capricious favors of fortune.

  David Hume

  Character, Men, Differences

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• Moral philosophy is nothing else but the science of what is good, and evil, in the conversation, and society of mankind. Good, and evil, are names that signify our appetites, and aversions; which in different tempers, customs, and doctrines of men, are different.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Men, Names, Evil

  Thomas Hobbes (2016). “The Essential Leviathan: A Modernized Edition”, p.87, Hackett Publishing

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• The fate of our times is characterized by rationalization and intellectualization and, above all, by the 'disenchantment of the world.' Precisely the ultimate and most sublime values have retreated from public life either into the transcendental realm of mystic life or into the brotherliness of direct and personal human relations. It is not accidental that our greatest art is intimate and not monumental.

  Max Weber

  Art, Fate, Historical

  Max Weber (2013). “From Max Weber: Essays in Sociology”, p.155, Routledge

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• O my Bergson, you are a magician, and your book is a marvel, a real wonder in the history of philosophy . . . In finishing it I found . . . such a flavor of persistent euphony, as of a rich river that never foamed or ran thin, but steadily and firmly proceeded with its banks full to the brim.

  William James

  Real, Book, Finishing It

  William James (1961). “Selected Letters”

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• History abhors determinism but cannot tolerate chance.

  Bernard DeVoto

  Art, History, Historical

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• I am not a pessimist but a pejorist (as George Eliot said she was not an optimist but a meliorist); and that philosophy is founded on my observation of the world, not on anything so trivial and irrelevant as personal history.

  A. E. Housman

  Historical, Personal History, World

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• My whole philosophy in survival is to take down brush as soon as you get in a situation.

  Joe Teti

  Survival, Brushes, Situation

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• My share of the work of the world may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious. Darwin could work only half an hour at a time; but in many diligent half-hours he laid anew the foundations of philosophy. Green, the historian, tells us that the world is moved not only by the mighty shoves of the heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker.

  John Harvey Kellogg

  Time, Honesty, Hero

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• When fascism comes to America, it will not be in brown and black shirts. It will not be with jack-boots. It will be Nike sneakers and Smiley shirts. Germany lost the Second World War. Fascism won it. Believe me, my friend.

  George Carlin

  Nike, War, Believe

  "Real Time" with Bill Maher, September 9, 2005.

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• Philosophy can only be approached with the most concrete comprehension.

  Karl Jaspers

  Taxi, Concrete, Comprehension

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• We are dealing with the best-educated generation in history. But they've got a brain dressed up with nowhere to go. Science is all metaphor. In the information age, you don't teach philosophy as they did after feudalism. You perform it. If Aristotle were alive today he'd have a talk show. If you don't like what you are doing, you can always pick up your needle and move to another groove. If you take the game of life seriously, if you take your nervous system seriously, if you take your sense organs seriously, if you take the energy process seriously, you must turn on, tune in, and drop out.

  Timothy Leary

  Moving, Games, Historical

  Lecture, June 1966, in Politics of Ecstasy (1968) ch. 21

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• That's kind of what we have here. I think we've just grown apart, we have different philosophies, and we're going in different directions.

  Lance Burton

  Thinking, Different, Kind

  "'Dance Crew' winners land weekly Vegas show". www.hollywoodreporter.com. September 7, 2010.

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• Philosophy itself cannot but benefit from our disputes, for if our conceptions prove true, new achievements will be made; if false, their refutation will further confirm the original doctrines.

  Galileo Galilei

  Thinking, Achievement, Doctrine

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