We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.
- John F. Kennedy
For me, my secularism is, India first. I say, the philosophy of my party is 'Justice to all. Appeasement to none.' This is our secularism.
- Narendra Modi
My philosophy comes from a worldview that looks at the world as one. It's a holistic view that sees the world as interconnected and interdependent and integrated in so many different ways, which informs my politics.
- Dennis Kucinich
The use of philosophy is to sadden. A philosophy which saddens no one, that annoys no one, is not a philosophy. It is useful for harming stupidity, for turning stupidity into something shameful. Its only use is the exposure of all forms of baseness of thought.
- Gilles Deleuze
My fashion philosophy is, if you're not covered in dog hair, your life is empty.
- Elayne Boosler
Systematic theology - be careful how you tie down the Word to fit your set and final creeds, systems, dogmas, and organized theistic philosophies! The Word of God is not bound! It's free to say what it will to the individual, and no one can outline it into dispensations which cannot be broken.
- Jim Elliot
Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger portion of the truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant.
- Edgar Allan Poe
I really believe in the philosophy that you create your own universe. I'm just trying to create a good one for myself.
- Jim Carrey
I demonstrate by means of philosophy that the earth is round, and is inhabited on all sides; that it is insignificantly small, and is borne through the stars.
- Johannes Kepler
Every single university student should study philosophy. You need to lead the examined life and question your beliefs. If you don't learn critical thinking, then political debate degenerates into a contest of slogans.
- Martha Nussbaum
My worldview, my philosophy, my attitudes, my relationships, my parenting, my marriage - everything has been transformed by my relationship with Christ.
- Lee Strobel
Men are not allowed to think freely about chemistry and biology: why should they be allowed to think freely about political philosophy?
- Auguste Comte
My philosophy? Simplicity plus variety.
- Hank Stram
My pitching philosophy is simple - keep the ball way from the bat.
- Satchel Paige
While I am interested both in economics and in philosophy, the union of my interests in the two fields far exceeds their intersection.
- Amartya Sen
My whole philosophy is about playing dress-up.
- Brad Goreski
Sustainability is a part of our 'rise' philosophy. You cannot rise if you take more from the community than you put back.
- Anand Mahindra
I am now convinced that theoretical physics is actually philosophy.
- Max Born
The philosophy of the wisest man that ever existed, is mainly derived from the act of introspection.
- William Godwin
My philosophy of dating is to just fart right away.
- Jenny McCarthy
Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.
- Will Durant
Christianity is not a theory or speculation, but a life; not a philosophy of life, but a life and a living process.
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
I always had a philosophy which I got from my father. He used to say, 'Listen. God gave to you the gift to play football. This is your gift from God. If you take care of your health, if you are in good shape all the time, with your gift from God no one will stop you, but you must be prepared.'
- Pele
There's nothing new about anti-work philosophy. History is dotted with individuals and groups who decided that laziness was next to godliness and work was a waste of time.
- Tom Hodgkinson
Your philosophy determines whether you will go for the disciplines or continue the errors.
- Jim Rohn
The philosophy of protectionism is a philosophy of war.
- Ludwig von Mises
My parents spent an awful lot of money sending me to the best possible schools, and I came out of my exams and thought, 'I don't really want to do a degree.' I did philosophy with the Jesuits for about a year, and then I joined a bank. While I was there, I saw an ad in an Irish paper for radio announcers.
- Terry Wogan
My philosophy is, it's always very rewarding when you can make an audience laugh. I don't mind making fun of myself. I like self-deprecating comedy. But I'd like you to laugh with me occasionally, too.
- Dwayne Johnson
Skepticism is the first step on the road to philosophy.
- Denis Diderot
I like to cook with the philosophy of using great ingredients and not altering them too much.
- Aaron Sanchez
I think we ought always to entertain our opinions with some measure of doubt. I shouldn't wish people dogmatically to believe any philosophy, not even mine.
- Bertrand Russell
Reggae has a philosophy, you know? It's not just entertainment. There's an idea behind it, a way of life behind the music, which is a positive way of life, which is a progressive way of life for better people.
- Ziggy Marley
The history of thought, of knowledge, of philosophy, of literature seems to be seeking, and discovering, more and more discontinuities, whereas history itself appears to be abandoning the irruption of events in favor of stable structures.
- Michel Foucault
I started my first year at college on May 10 2015, and dropped my first video, 'Black Box' on the same day, it's pretty weird. I'm studying Philosophy and Ethics, Law and Music. Ethics helps a lot with music. Philosophy gives you a great perspective on things; it makes you think deeper about what you're saying.
- Santan Dave
Greek philosophy seems to have met with something with which a good tragedy is not supposed to meet, namely, a dull ending.
- Karl Marx
If I had to define my philosophy, it would be about exploration, a journey, a story-telling.
- Hussein Chalayan
I like to play cards. I'm not very good, because I don't want to calculate, I just play by instinct. But I've learned a lot of business philosophy by playing poker.
- Jack Ma
Any philosophy that can be put in a nutshell belongs there.
- Sydney J. Harris
Astonishment is the root of philosophy.
- Paul Tillich
As every student in Philosophy 101 learns, nothing can force me to believe that anyone except me is conscious. This power to deny that other people have feelings is not just an academic exercise but an all-too-common vice, as we see in the long history of human cruelty.
- Steven Pinker
My philosophy is very simple. To feel young, you must work as long as you can.
- Dino De Laurentiis
Life does not agree with philosophy: There is no happiness that is not idleness, and only what is useless is pleasurable.
- Anton Chekhov
I believe in destiny and the philosophy of karma.
- Asha Bhosle
A philosophy of freedom must set out from the experience of thinking, for it is through this experience of thinking that a human being discovers his own self, finds his bearings as an independent personality.
- Rudolf Steiner
I have a personal philosophy in life: If somebody else can do something that I'm doing, they should do it. And what I want to do is find things that would represent a unique contribution to the world - the contribution that only I, and my portfolio of talents, can make happen. Those are my priorities in life.
- Neil deGrasse Tyson
I think the novel is not so much a literary genre, but a literary space, like a sea that is filled by many rivers. The novel receives streams of science, philosophy, poetry and contains all of these; it's not simply telling a story.
- Jose Saramago
The philosophy of fasting calls upon us to know ourselves, to master ourselves, and to discipline ourselves the better to free ourselves. To fast is to identify our dependencies, and free ourselves from them.
- Tariq Ramadan
You are a child of the sun, you come from the sun, and that is something true with the Earth also... your relationship with the Earth is so deep, and the Earth is in you and this is something not very difficult, much less difficult then philosophy.
- Thich Nhat Hanh
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
Our intonations contain our philosophy of life, what each of us is constantly telling himself about things.
- Marcel Proust
I set forth a humble and inglorious life; that does not matter. You can tie up all moral philosophy with a common and private life just as well as with a life of richer stuff. Each man bears the entire form of man's estate.
- Michel de Montaigne
Champions invariably have fervent philosophical beliefs. Philosophy, in its simplest terms, means 'the love of wisdom.'
- Zig Ziglar
Nature, philosophy and social issues are the three things that always occupy my mind. You do not have any power over others but can only change yourself.
- Pawan Kalyan
One of my big philosophies is that fighting is the sport that crosses all borders. I don't care what color you are, what country you come from or what language you speak, fighting is in our DNA. We get it and we like it.
- Dana White
Maine people have a live-and-let-live philosophy, and tend to be fair and open-minded.
- Chellie Pingree
There is no religion in which everyday life is not considered a prison; there is no philosophy or ideology that does not think that we live in alienation.
- Eugene Ionesco
To believe only possibilities is not faith, but mere philosophy.
- Thomas Browne
Philosophy is like trying to open a safe with a combination lock: each little adjustment of the dials seems to achieve nothing, only when everything is in place does the door open.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein
I do not think that we should select judges based on a particular philosophy as opposed to temperament, commitment to judicial neutrality and commitment to other more constant values as to which there is general consensus.
- Anthony Kennedy
I am a misanthrope and yet utterly benevolent, have more than one screw loose yet am a super-idealist who digests philosophy more efficiently than food.
- Alfred Nobel
Two of the chief defenders of the faith in the Old Testament and in the New - Moses and Paul - were both well-versed in the language, the thinking, and the philosophy of their cultures.
- Ravi Zacharias
Philosophy begins in wonder.
- Plato
The Occultists, however, know that the traditions of Esoteric Philosophy must be the right ones, simply because they are the most logical, and reconcile every difficulty.
- Helena Blavatsky
Skepticism is a virtue in history as well as in philosophy.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
I don't think there is any philosophy that suggests having polio is a good thing.
- Bill Gates
You're not just voting for an individual, in my judgment, you're voting for an agenda. You're voting for a platform. You're voting for a political philosophy.
- Colin Powell
Alchemy is a kind of philosophy: a kind of thinking that leads to a way of understanding.
- Marcel Duchamp
You can't do without philosophy, since everything has its hidden meaning which we must know.
- Maxim Gorky
I mean, we are tribal by nature, and sometimes success and material wealth can divide and separate - it's not a new philosophy I'm sharing - more than hardship, hardship tends to unify.
- Colin Farrell
Making itself intelligible is suicide for philosophy.
- Martin Heidegger
With honesty of purpose, balance, a respect for tradition, courage, and, above all, a philosophy of life, any young person who embraces the historical profession will find it rich in rewards and durable in satisfaction.
- Samuel E. Morison
Tolerating organized crime promotes the cheap philosophy that everything is a racket. It promotes cynicism among adults. It contributes to the confusion of the young and to the increase of juvenile delinquency.
- Robert Kennedy
If you do things, whether it's acting or music or painting, do it without fear - that's my philosophy. Because nobody can arrest you and put you in jail if you paint badly, so there's nothing to lose.
- Anthony Hopkins
Philosophy and Art both render the invisible visible by imagination.
- George Henry Lewes
You've got to reach a hand of friendship across the aisle and across philosophies in this country.
- Joe Biden
My feeling or philosophy is closer to Taoism and Zen Buddhism, 'cause it's the most practical.
- Harry Dean Stanton
I am concerned, rather, that there should not be more things dreamt of in my philosophy than there actually are in heaven and earth.
- Nelson Goodman
We live in a world in which politics has replaced philosophy.
- Martin L. Gross
Any genuine philosophy leads to action and from action back again to wonder, to the enduring fact of mystery.
- Henry Miller
Religion and philosophy are to be preserved distinct. We are not to introduce divine revelations into philosophy, nor philosophical opinions into religion.
- Isaac Newton
There is no philosophy which is not founded upon knowledge of the phenomena, but to get any profit from this knowledge it is absolutely necessary to be a mathematician.
- Daniel Bernoulli
Philosophy goes no further than probabilities, and in every assertion keeps a doubt in reserve.
- James Anthony Froude
Aphorisms are the true form of the universal philosophy.
- Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
I don't believe in the philosophy of stumbling across hit records.
- Nile Rodgers
If I had followed the multitude, I should not have studied philosophy.
- Chrysippus
Religion is doing; a man does not merely think his religion or feel it, he lives his religion as much as he is able, otherwise it is not religion but fantasy or philosophy.
- George Gurdjieff
Like the winds that we come we know not whence and blow whither soever they list, the forces of society are derived from an obscure and distant origin. They arise before the date of philosophy, from the instincts, not the speculations of men.
- Adam Ferguson
Philosophy is nothing but discretion.
- John Selden
Dogmatism and skepticism are both, in a sense, absolute philosophies; one is certain of knowing, the other of not knowing. What philosophy should dissipate is certainty, whether of knowledge or ignorance.
- Bertrand Russell
The habit of doing more than you are paid for can benefit any business that sells a product or service. Learning and understanding the principle of the mastermind philosophy of networking can increase the value of your network and your net worth.
- Clay Clark
Being Human clothing was first launched in France, Belgium and Spain, where the brand's philosophy of look good, do good is connecting with people and not just Salman Khan.
- Salman Khan
They declaim against the passions without bothering to think that it is from their flame philosophy lights its torch.
- Marquis de Sade
But human experience is usually paradoxical, that means incongruous with the phrases of current talk or even current philosophy.
- George Eliot
When Keats says: 'Axioms in philosophy are not axioms until they are proved upon our pulses', what he means is that we don't necessarily believe what a poem is saying if it comes out and tells us in an absolutely head-on, in-your-face way; we only believe it to be true if we feel it to be true.
- Andrew Motion
I preferred the weapons of dialectic to all the other teachings of philosophy, and armed with these, I chose the conflicts of disputation rather than the trophies of war.
- Peter Abelard
Felicity, the companion of content, is rather found in our own breasts than in the enjoyment of external things; and I firmly believe it requires but a little philosophy to make a man happy in whatever state he is.
- Daniel Boone
Philosophy is an attempt by man to find cause and effect. Religion has the same goal.
- Al Goldstein
Indian classical dance is sustained by a profound philosophy. Form seeks to merge with the formless, motions seek to become a part of the motionless, and the dancing individual seeks to become one with the eternal dance of the cosmos.
- Nita Ambani
My philosophy is my learning process. Until you die, you must evolve and improve.
- Miyavi
It's about being fair. It's about Black Lives Matter. Yes, they matter. Everybody counts or nobody counts, and I think if more cops had the philosophy of Harry Bosch, we'd have less of these situations happening.
- Michael Connelly