What is the meaning of the togetherness of the perceiving mind, in that peculiar modification of perceiving which makes it perceive not a star but a tree, and the tree itself, is a problem for philosophy. – Samuel Alexander
My philosophy about the game, for instance, is that you have players out there who really do different things. – Tiffeny Milbrett
Ordinary people seem not to realize that those who really apply themselves in the right way to philosophy are directly and of their own accord preparing themselves for dying and death. – Socrates
Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery. – Winston Churchill
Buddhism has become a socially recognized religious philosophy for Americans, whereas it used to be considered an exotic religion. – Thurston Moore
My philosophy is, ‘Show up, shut up, and do your job,’ and if you do it to the satisfaction of your director and the public, you’re likely to be able to do it again. – Stephen Lang
Religions do a useful thing: they narrow God to the limits of man. Philosophy replies by doing a necessary thing: it elevates man to the plane of God. – Victor Hugo
I went to Princeton from Amherst, where I split my interests between mathematics and philosophy. – Stephen Cole Kleene
I think he’s informing himself, reaching out and getting ideas and information and advice. I haven’t the slightest doubt that internally taking shape in that marvelous brain of his is a philosophy of foreign affairs. But it would be premature to say that one is fully formed. – Theodore C. Sorensen
It’s a philosophy of life. A practice. If you do this, something will change, what will change is that you will change, your life will change, and if you can change you, you can perhaps change the world. – Vivienne Westwood
I find purer philosophy in a Poem than in a Conclusion of Geometry, a chemical analysis, or a physical law. – Wilfred Owen
When I got to Princeton I made a point of attending the Philosophy Club and listening to the lectures, but I didn’t get involved in any discussions in those clubs. I guess after the first year, I dropped that. – Stephen Cole Kleene
I had some hesitations about philosophy because, if you worked out a philosophical theory, it was hard to know whether you were going to be able to prove it or whether other theories had just as good a claim on belief. – Stephen Cole Kleene
Philosophy wasn’t about facts, it was about ideas. My first essay title was something like: ‘How can you know what other people are thinking?’ I thought, ‘Wow, what an amazing thing.’ I really thought deeply for the first time. – Sophie Kinsella
I’ve never been a materialist; I’ve never been somebody who believes in only what we can see and measure. I continue to be a student of religious philosophy, and I continue to take those ideas very seriously. – Scott Derrickson
It is one of the consolations of philosophy that the benefit of showing how to dispense with a concept does not hinge on dispensing with it. – Willard Van Orman Quine
To sum up the whole, we should say that the aim of the Platonic philosophy was to exalt man into a god. – Thomas Babington Macaulay
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
I consider the philosophy of the Communist Party as not applicable to our American way of life. – Sidney Buchman
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
It’s really only all about music. It’s not like a big rocket scientist kind of philosophy or anything. – Tommy Mottola
When I did ‘Tokyo Drift,’ a lot of the philosophy that Han lived by I have actually gone through in my own life. As I got older, I realized that I really believe in those philosophies, like the importance of family. – Sung Kang
However, while the Nazi barbarians and their collaborators threatened the entire world, I could not accept his philosophy and, after several earlier attempts, was finally accepted into the Canadian Infantry Corps during the last year of World War II. – Walter Kohn
It is an acknowledged truth in philosophy that a just theory will always be confirmed by experiment. – Thomas Malthus
You can’t do science in a novel, but you can do philosophy. Or, if you’re really lucky, you can manage to pose a question in such a way that other people will take it on. – Scarlett Thomas