Philosophy Quotes - Page 37

• We need energy, commitment, and courage not to run from our life nor to cover it over with any philosophy—material or spiritual.

  Jack Kornfield

  Running, Spiritual, Commitment

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• And we wonder what can be that 'philosophy of education' which believes that young people can be trained to the duties of citizenship by wrapping their minds in cotton wool.

  Henry Steele Commager

  Believe, People, Mind

  "Who is Loyal to America?". "Harper's Magazine", Vol. 195, No. 1168, September 1947.

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• Anarchism is the only philosophy which brings to man the consciousness of himself; which maintains that God, the State, and society are non-existent, that their promises are null and void, since they can be fulfilled only through man's subordination.

  Emma Goldman

  Men, Promise, Null

  Emma Goldman (2015). “Anarchism and Other Essays”, p.35, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• Different ‘philosophies’ represent nothing but methods of evaluation, which may lead to empirical mis-evaluation if science and empirical facts are disregarded.

  Alfred Korzybski

  Different, May, Evaluation

  Alfred Korzybski (1958). “Science and Sanity: An Introduction to Non-Aristotelian Systems and General Semantics”, p.41, Institute of GS

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• The basically simple things are best, whether it's automobiles or diets or philosophy.

  Henry Ford

  Simple, Automobile, Diets

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• I am gay on the outside, especially among my own folk (I count Poles my own); but inside something gnaws at me; some presentiment, anxiety, dreams - or sleeplessness - melancholy, indifference - desire for life, and the next instant, desire for death; some kind of sweet peace, some kind of numbness, absent-mindedness.

  Frederic Chopin

  Life, Dream, Sweet

  Frederic Chopin (2013). “Chopin's Letters”, p.166, Courier Corporation

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• I'm a revolutionary, money means nothing to me.

  Frederic Chopin

  Life, Music, Money

  "Chopin". Book by Arthur Hedley,, 1947.

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• We are not called to proclaim philosophy and metaphysics, but the simple gospel. Man's fall, his need of a new birth, forgiveness through atonement, and salvation as the result of faith, these are our battle-ax and weapons of war.

  Charles Spurgeon

  War, Fall, Simple

  Spurgeon, Charles (2015). “Charles Spurgeon: Lectures to My Students, Volume 1”, p.83, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• Attention to the human body brings healing and regeneration. Through awareness of the body we remember who we really are.

  Jack Kornfield

  Healing, Medicine, Soma

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• What objectivity and the study of philosophy requires is not an 'open mind,' but an active mind - a mind able and eagerly willing to examine ideas, but to examine them criticially.

  Ayn Rand

  Objectivity, Ideas, Mind

  Ayn Rand (1984). “Philosophy: Who Needs It”, p.28, Penguin

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• The science of love is the philosophy of the heart

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Heart, Love Is

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• The night can sweat with terror as before We pieced our thoughts into philosophy, And planned to bring the world under a rule, Who are but weasels fighting in a hole.

  William Butler Yeats

  Fighting, Night, Sweat

  William Butler Yeats (2008). “COLLECTED POEMS OF W.B. YEATS”, p.513, Simon and Schuster

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• The philosophy of Africanism holds out the hope of a genuine democracy beyond the stormy sea of struggle

  Robert Sobukwe

  Struggle, Sea, Democracy

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• We must reason in natural philosophy not from what we hope, or even expect, but from what we perceive.

  Humphry Davy

  Reason, Natural, Perceive

  Humphry Davy (1840). “The Collected Works of Sir Humphry Davy (etc.)”, p.303

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• It is not reason that gives us our moral orientation, it is sensitivity.

  Maurice Barres

  Art, History, Giving

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• We really are All One....this is the very philosophy that has kept me virtually anonymous in America for fifteen years.

  Bill Hicks

  Years, America, Fifteen

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• Philosophy just puts everything before us, and neither explains nor deduces anything.-Since everything lies open to view there is nothing to explain

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Lying, Views

  Ludwig Wittgenstein, James Carl Klagge, Alfred Nordmann (1993). “Philosophical Occasions, 1912-1951”, p.177, Hackett Publishing

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• The philosophy of poetry must acknowledge that the poetic act has no past, at least no recent past, in which its preparation and appearance could be followed.

  Gaston Bachelard

  Past, Preparation, Poetic

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• We are not abandoning our convictions, our philosophy or traditions, nor do we urge anyone to abandon theirs.

  Mikhail Gorbachev

  Tradition, Conviction, Abandon

  Mikhail Sergeevich Gorbachev (1989). “Mikhail Gorbachev Addresses the United Nations”

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• If alpha [the fine-structure constant] were bigger than it really is, we should not be able to distinguish matter from ether [the vacuum, nothingness], and our task to disentangle the natural laws would be hopelessly difficult. The fact however that alpha has just its value 1/137 is certainly no chance but itself a law of nature. It is clear that the explanation of this number must be the central problem of natural philosophy.

  Max Born

  Law, Numbers, Matter

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• In my reading of philosophy, I saw that there were innumerable problems that nobody was giving answers for. the Bible, it struck me, dealt with man's problems in a sweeping, all-encompassing thrust.

  Francis Schaeffer

  Reading, Men, Giving

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• My mind was formed by studying philosophy, Plato and that sort of thing.

  Werner Heisenberg

  Plato, Mind, Study

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• I don't attach importance to great speeches or philosophy.

  Jacques Santer

  Speech, Importance, Great Speech

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• Materialist philosophies that treat human beings as machines or animals possess the high ground in our culture - academia, the most powerful media and many of our courts.

  Marvin Olasky

  Powerful, Animal, Media

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• Coaching really is an individual philosophy.

  Mark Messier

  Sports, Coaching, Individual

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