Quotes of: Philosophies Keyword

To learn is not to know; there are the learners and the learned. Memory makes the one, philosophy the others.

The Count of Monte Cristo

Everyone has some kind of philosophy, some general worldview, which to men of other views will seem mythological.

Christ and Culture

The human body is the most ordinary of things, yet also the most extraordinary.

Co-ed Naked Philosophy

Karma theory is a spiritual philosophy used to explain and maintain the economic status of Asia.

The Dark Side of the Inner Child

Theology sits rouged at the window and courts philosophy's favor, offering to sell her charms to it.

Fear and Trembling

The most altruistic and sustainable philosophies fail before the brute brain stem imperative of self-interest.

Blindsight

If philosophy is practice, a demand to know the manner in which its history is to be studied is entailed: a theoretical attitude toward it becomes real only in the living appropriation of its contents from the texts.

Karl Jaspers

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.

Timothy Leary

I was a philosophy major as an undergraduate, and I'm just an arrogant little thing. It's hard for me to admit that I can't understand something, let alone not be in charge of it.

Mary Karr

As a system of philosophy it is not like the Tower of Babel, so daring its high aim as to seek a shelter against God's anger; but it is like a pyramid poised on its apex.

Adam Sedgwick

Besides numerous science courses, I had the opportunity to study philosophy, the history of architecture, economics, and Russian history in courses taught by extraordinarily knowledgeable professors.

Stanley B. Prusiner

Maybe philosophy - I love talking about ideas. Or maybe art history. I was thinking about psychology, then I got really afraid because everybody says it's terribly boring.

Claire Danes

When science, art, literature, and philosophy are simply the manifestation of personality they are on a level where glorious and dazzling achievements are possible, which can make a man's name live for thousands of years.

Denis Diderot

That is why I believe that art is so much more significant than either economics or philosophy. It is the direct measure of man's spiritual vision.

Herbert Read

It's kind of not about the quality of the art, as much as this is what I love doing and I'd have a worse time doing anything else. That's kind of as far as I think in terms of philosophy.

Jonny Greenwood

The pursuit of perfection always implies a definite aristocracy, which is as much a goal of effort as a noble philosophy, an august civil polity or a great art.

Ralph Adams Cram

The study of history and philosophy, accompanied by some acquaintance with art and literature, should be for lawyers and engineers as well as for those who study in arts faculties.

Terry Eagleton

Liberation from the tyranny of the body contributes to greatness, but just as much to greatness in sin as to greatness in virtue.

A History of Western Philosophy

The philosopher cannot seriously put to himself questions that his civilization has not lived.

Irrational Man: A Study in Existential Philosophy

As a writer of philosophy, it's good to ask oneself, 'Will I still believe this a week from now, or months, or even years?

Killosophy

Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children.

Mirrors of the Soul