Philosophy Quotes - Page 36

• To theology, ... only what it holds sacred is true, whereas to philosophy, only what holds true is sacred.

  Ludwig Feuerbach

  Sacred, Theology

  Ludwig Feuerbach (1967). “Lectures on the essence of religion”

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• My personal philosophy of life is one of ethics

  Alva Myrdal

  Ethics, Life Is, Life Philosophy

  Alva Myrdal, Cecilia Åse, Yvonne Hirdman (2002). “"Något kan man väl göra: texter 1932-1982”

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• Philosophy is to science as masturbation is to sex.

  Karl Marx

  Sex, Masturbation

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• At present, I am mainly observing the physical motion of mountains, water, trees and flowers. One is everywhere reminded of similar movements in the human body, of similar impulses of joy and suffering in plants.

  Egon Schiele

  Flower, Medicine, Water

  Erwin Mitsch, Egon Schiele (1988). “The art of Egon Schiele”

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• The price of freedom—of individuality—is attention to politics, careful planning, careful organization; philosophy is no more a barrier against political disaster than it is against plague.

  Greg Bear

  Organization, Political, Individuality

  Greg Bear (2016). “Far Thoughts and Pale Gods”, p.56, Open Road Media

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• Ain't no time to hate, barely time to wait

  Robert Hunter

  Hate, Waiting

  Robert Hunter, David G. Dodd (2005). “The Complete Annotated Grateful Dead Lyrics: The Collected Lyrics of Robert Hunter and John Barlow, Lyrics to All Original Songs, with Selected Traditional and Cover Songs”, p.102, Simon and Schuster

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• We have had enough, once and for all, of Hedonism--the gloomy philosophy which says that Pleasure is the only good.

  C. S. Lewis

  Had Enough, Pleasure, Gloomy

  C. S. Lewis (1987). “Present Concerns”, p.54, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• People look for morals in fiction because there has always been a confusion between fiction and philosophy.

  John Cheever

  People, Confusion, Looks

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• Only an unhinged movie survives as a disconnected series of images, of peaks, of visual icebergs. It should display not one central idea but many. It should not reveal a coherent philosophy of composition. It must live on, and because of, its glorious ricketiness.

  Umberto Eco

  Ideas, Should, Iceberg

  Umberto Eco (2014). “Travels in Hyperreality”, p.209, HMH

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• My chief reason for choosing Christianity was because the mysteries were incomprehensible. What's the point of revelation if we could figure it out ourselves? If it were wholly comprehensible, then it would just be another philosophy.

  Mortimer Adler

  Mystery, Christianity, Reason

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• The winter moon becomes a companion, the heart of the priest, sunk in meditation upon religion and philosophy, there in the mountain hall, is engaged in a delicate interplay and exchange with the moon; and it is this of which the poet sings.

  Yasunari Kawabata

  Heart, Winter, Moon

  "Japan, the Beautiful and Myself". Yasunari Kawabata's Nobel Lecture, www.nobelprize.org. December 12, 1968.

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• Only by examining our personal biases can we truly grow as artists; only by cultivating empathy can we truly grow as people.

  Jen Knox

  Artist, People, Empathy

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• Prejudice for regularity and simplicity is a source of error that has only too often infected philosophy.

  Roger Joseph Boscovich

  Science, Errors, Simplicity

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• The renaissance of Christian philosophy has been accompanied by a resurgence of interest in natural theology, that branch of theology that seeks to prove God's existence apart from divine revelation.

  William Lane Craig

  Christian, Divine Revelation, Renaissance

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• Thanks to the high standing which science has for so long attain and to the impartiality of the Nobel Prize Committee, the Nobel Prize for Physics is rightly considered everywhere as the highest reward within the reach of workers in Natural Philosophy.

  Guglielmo Marconi

  Long, Rewards, Thanks

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• Posterity will one day laugh at the sublime foolishness of the modern materialistic philosophy. The more I study nature, the more I stand amazed at the work of the Creator. I pray while I am engaged at my work in the laboratory.

  Louis Pasteur

  Laughing, Sublime, One Day

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• There is no more open door by which you can enter into the study of natural philosophy than by considering the physical phenomena of a candle

  Michael Faraday

  Doors, Study, Natural

  Michael Faraday (2016). “The Chemical History of a Candle”, p.3, Library of Alexandria

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• Michael Bloomfield was the antithesis of a collector ... he didn't care how old a guitar was; all he wanted was something that sounded good when played it ... and he cared nothing about the collectibility of an instrument ... his philosophy was "A good player can make any guitar sound good" ... to Michael, a guitar was just a tool.

  Nick Gravenites

  Music, Player, Guitar

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• The only thing in the world worth a damn is the strange, touching, pathetic, awesome nobility of the individual human spirit.

  John D. MacDonald

  Touching, World, Spirit

  John D MacDonald (2013). “Bright Orange for the Shroud: Introduction by Lee Child: Travis McGee”, p.5, Random House

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• Serial or sex murder, like fetishism, is a perversion of male intelligence. It is a criminal abstraction, masculine in its deranged egotism and orderliness. It is the asocial equivalent of philosophy, mathematics, and music. There is no female Mozart because there is no female Jack the Ripper.

  Camille Paglia

  Sex, Males, Criminals

  Sexual Personae ch. 8 (1990)

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• Art requires philosophy, just as philosophy requires art. Otherwise, what would become of beauty?

  Paul Gauguin

  Art, Creative, Philosopher

  Paul Gauguin (1921). “Gauguin's Intimate Journals”, p.109, Courier Corporation

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• Art is vice. One does not wed it, one rapes it.

  Edgar Degas

  Art, History, Vices

  Robert Hale Ives Gammell, Edgar Degas (1961). “The shop-talk of Edgar Degas”

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• The low view of God entertained almost universally among Christians is the cause of a hundred lesser evils everywhere among us.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Christian, Religious, Thinking

  "The Knowledge of the Holy: The Attributes of God: Their Meaning in the Christian Life".

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• I'm always a big fan of if you approach somebody politely about something and you're not a nudge - you're just pretty honest and simple, my kind of philosophy is that I'm not afraid of 'no,' and that's way different than 'I won't take no for an answer.

  Carol Leifer

  Simple, Fans, Different

  "The One Woman You MUST Know About Before Watching the Oscars This Sunday. (Hint: She's Known as the Real "Elaine" on Seinfeld!)" by Jessica Radloff, www.glamour.com. February 24, 2012.

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• Singing is my main goal, and I think philosophy will help me write songs.

  Jackie Evancho

  Song, Writing, Thinking

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

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