We do not learn by inference and deduction and the application of mathematics to philosophy, but by direct intercourse and sympathy.
My father was a very tough guy with me and my brothers. He wanted to teach us a lot of discipline and life philosophy. As I became more interested in martial arts, he started teaching a lot of fighting philosophy and karate philosophy. While he was a tough father, he also knew when to be sweet and show a softer side.
Liberals worry that what’s best for the individual might not be better for the public at large. But that philosophy assumes something vicious about each and every one of us. It assumes we only care about ourselves.
Politics is – once in a while – a forum for serious debate about political philosophy.
My dad had this philosophy that if you tell children they’re beautiful and wonderful then they believe it, and they will be. So I never thought I was unattractive. But I was never one of the girls at school who had lots of boyfriends.
The highest point of philosophy is to be both wise and simple; this is the angelic life.
I don’t join the New Atheists. So, for example, I wouldn’t have the arrogance to lecture some mother who hopes to see her dying child in Heaven – that’s none of my business, ultimately. I won’t lecture her on the philosophy of science.
I am uncompromising to the point of huge dissension in the studio. And it’s served me very well. My theory and my philosophy is, ‘Compromise breeds mediocrity.’ Obviously, you have to pick your battles, and the more success an artist has, the more they want to be involved in their own career, which is not necessarily a good thing.
Wagner’s philosophy had absolutely nothing to do with Bruckner. Bruckner hadn’t written a single word against Jews. Wagner’s book on the Jews was one of the most infamous books of the 19th century.
One of the great questions of philosophy is, do we innately have morality, or do we get it from celestial dictation? A study of the Ten Commandments is a very good way of getting into and resolving that issue.
I remain convinced that obstinate addiction to ordinary language in our private thoughts is one of the main obstacles to progress in philosophy.
Historically, China is not a nation of sportsmen. We traditionally put more emphasis on being close to nature than pushing endlessly to excel. A philosophy that values tranquil contemplation of the landscape cannot easily be adapted to the Olympic slogan of ‘higher, stronger, faster.’
Yes, obviously, there’s this degree of wanting people to accept other people faiths and philosophies.
It is the liberal philosophy, not the conservative one, that views humans as selfish automatons.
When I was 18 and not sure whether I wanted to be an actor, I realised that a playwright has no voice without an actor. That’s my reason for acting: to get that character as right as possible for my writer. And I have never changed my philosophy.
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.
By philosophy the mind of man comes to itself, and from henceforth rests on itself without foreign aid, and is completely master of itself, as the dancer of his feet, or the boxer of his hands.
Philosophy: A route of many roads leading from nowhere to nothing.
My philosophy is whatever you do, you’ve got to invest in yourself. If you don’t, there are a lot of people out there who will get the job because they’re more prepared than you.
Players want a manager you feel in your gut you want to play for – they can have the best tactics and philosophy in the world but if you have lost a player in his heart or head, you have lost him in every other department.
It is not up to me whether I win or lose. Ultimately, this might not be my day. And it is that philosophy towards sports, something that I really truly live by. I am emotional. I want to win. I am hungry. I am a competitor. I have that fire. But deep down, I truly enjoy the art of competing so much more than the result.
One of my favorite things, coming of age, reading comics, was these ideologies and these philosophies of these characters. Seeing those on the page really represented in amazing ways some of my favorite ‘Batman’ comics like ‘The Killing Joke’ or ‘The Dark Knight Returns.’
In coming to that agreement, my party had a clear philosophy throughout. In Northern Ireland, we should have institutions that respected the differences of the people and that gave no victory to either side.
Language, philosophy, and science are interwoven into the design of words, which are manipulated to create surprising illusions.
Omega’s pioneering spirit and quest for innovation has endured throughout the times, and has created many ‘first steps’ in history. Hopefully, as an ambassador, I can deliver Omega’s philosophy and message, and we can create some special new footprints together.
The atheist is cheating whenever he makes a moral judgment, acting as though it has an objective reference, when his philosophy in fact precludes it.
I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business.
My philosophy, don’t let cancer ruin your life. You get up every day and use what you have and what time you have left.
A Christian philosophy of literature begins with the same agenda of issues that any philosophy of literature addresses. Its distinctive feature is that it relates these issues to the Christian faith.
What I wanted to do was to try to create a philosophy upon a completely new foundation.
In England, we’d leave school at 15 and go on to a college, and I went to further education in a town called Welling Garden City. I fully immersed myself in bohemia there, which included poetry and modern art, jazz, philosophy, social radicalism.
For Guardiola, the system and tactics can change but not the approach, attitude, or philosophy.
Religion and philosophy are to be preserved distinct. We are not to introduce divine revelations into philosophy, nor philosophical opinions into religion.
You should carefully study the Art of Reasoning, as it is what most people are very deficient in, and I know few things more disagreeable than to argue, or even converse with a man who has no idea of inductive and deductive philosophy.
I like Christianity. I’m a fan of Jesus and his whole philosophy but not the social teaching aspects of it, of course.
The best philosophers were not academics, but had another job, so their philosophy was not corrupted by careerism.
You’re seeing me develop, not only as a filmmaker if you’ve seen my earlier films, but you’re seeing me kind of learn how to be a human, how my philosophy has evolved.
Humor and laughter – not necessarily derogatory derision – are my pet tools. This may come from my general philosophy of never taking the world too seriously – for fear of dying of boredom.
We need to send Barack Obama back to Chicago. I’d like to send him back to Kenya, back to Indonesia. We have to unmask this man. This is a man that seeks to destroy all concept of God. And I will tell you what, this is classical Marxist philosophy.
He who has religion will speak poetry. But philosophy is the tool with which to seek and discover religion.
My dining and entertainment philosophy – I can boil it down to ‘the three C’s – I like my food like my fashion: casual, classic, and with a touch of couture.
I don’t think Republicans are evil. I think they mostly have a different philosophy of government than I do.
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.
The gospel is not a philosophy of repression, as so many regard it. It is a plan of freedom that gives discipline to appetite and direction to behavior.
I want to do a certain thing in the world, and I am going to do it with unwavering concentration. I am concerning myself with only one essential thing: to set man free. I desire to free him from all cages, from all fears, and not to found religions, new sects, nor to establish new theories and new philosophies.
It is, then, by those shadows of the hoary Past and their fantastic silhouettes on the external screen of every religion and philosophy, that we can, by checking them as we go along, and comparing them, trace out finally the body that produced them.
My number one philosophy for leadership is leadership by example. If you are not willing to do it yourself, how can you show others how to do it?
I learned to question everything you read. Don’t take anything at face value. Don’t care what other people say. I liked that philosophy.
Whatever science and philosophy may do for mankind, the world can never outgrow its need of the simplicity that is in Christ.
Conservatism, for me, is the philosophy and the politics of attachment.
In Algeria, I had begun to get into literature and philosophy. I dreamed of writing-and already models were instructing the dream, a certain language governed it.
People who decide they came to earth to work, who make work their personal philosophy, are kept very busy.
Practice self-awareness, self-evaluation, and self-improvement. If we are aware that our manners – language, behavior, and actions – are measured against our values and principles, we are able to more easily embody the philosophy, leadership is a matter of how to be, not how to do.
One of my core philosophies of leadership is valuing opinion and growing ownership within the group. That means that we have to hear opinions.
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.
Only a philosophy of eternity, in the world today, could justify non-violence.
My philosophy has been to take things day by day. When I talk about this philosophy, it makes people perhaps a little surprised.
As a universal history of philosophy, the history of philosophy must become one great unity.
I had a place at university to study theology and philosophy. I got the divinity prize at my school two years in a row. Probably because there were only 10 of us, but still.
People would say my children should have free will to eat meat – my philosophy is that is wrong, not healthy for the planet, animals or people. They learned and embraced all they could, taking gradual steps toward becoming vegan.
Why are we here? Where do we come from? Traditionally, these are questions for philosophy, but philosophy is dead.
I’m a believer in the parent first, friend second philosophy, and trying to find that balance.