I begin to speak only when I’m certain what I’ll say isn’t better left unsaid.
The wise man knows that it is better to sit on the banks of a remote mountain stream than to be emperor of the whole world.
To be beautiful means to be yourself. You don’t need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself.
Don’t be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth.
The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.
The man who asks a question is a fool for a minute, the man who does not ask is a fool for life.
Just when the caterpillar thought the world was over, it became a butterfly.
Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.
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.
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.’
‘Freedom from fear’ could be said to sum up the whole philosophy of human rights.
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.
My philosophy of life is that if we make up our mind what we are going to make of our lives, then work hard toward that goal, we never lose – somehow we win out.
I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law.
My philosophy is: Life is hard, but God is good. Try not to confuse the two.
For my own part, I would rather excel in knowledge of the highest secrets of philosophy than in arms.
I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
To argue with a man who has renounced the use and authority of reason, and whose philosophy consists in holding humanity in contempt, is like administering medicine to the dead, or endeavoring to convert an atheist by scripture.
Men are not allowed to think freely about chemistry and biology: why should they be allowed to think freely about political philosophy?
There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy.
I really believe in the philosophy that you create your own universe. I’m just trying to create a good one for myself.
A philosopher once said, ‘Half of good philosophy is good grammar.’
My social philosophy may be said to be enshrined in three words: liberty, equality and fraternity. Let no one, however, say that I have borrowed by philosophy from the French Revolution. I have not. My philosophy has roots in religion and not in political science. I have derived them from the teachings of my Master, the Buddha.
With just one polka dot, nothing can be achieved. In the universe, there is the sun, the moon, the earth, and hundreds of millions of stars. All of us live in the unfathomable mystery and infinitude of the universe. Pursuing ‘philosophy of the universe’ through art under such circumstances has led me to what I call ‘stereotypical repetition.’
Philosophy is a kind of journey, ever learning yet never arriving at the ideal perfection of truth.
There is no heresy or no philosophy which is so abhorrent to the church as a human being.
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.
Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy.
A fool’s brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.
A naturopath once told me you should never take antibiotics except if you have pneumonia, a kidney infection or some other serious illness. That’s my philosophy, too.
Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze. But the book cannot be understood unless one first learns to comprehend the language and read the letters in which it is composed.
Any genuine philosophy leads to action and from action back again to wonder, to the enduring fact of mystery.
I could go insane if I obsessed over every little detail of all of my companies. My management philosophy is to pay attention to the vital few and ignore the trivial many.
Real misanthropes are not found in solitude, but in the world; since it is experience of life, and not philosophy, which produces real hatred of mankind.
When I was a student, I studied philosophy and religion. I talked about being patient. Some people say I was too hopeful, too optimistic, but you have to be optimistic just in keeping with the philosophy of non-violence.
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.
My worldview, my philosophy, my attitudes, my relationships, my parenting, my marriage – everything has been transformed by my relationship with Christ.
Philosophy and Art both render the invisible visible by imagination.
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.
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.
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.
The great question of our time is, ‘Will we be motivated by materialistic philosophy or by spiritual power?’
Philosophically considered, the universe is composed of Nature and the Soul. Strictly speaking, therefore, all that is separate from us, all which Philosophy distinguishes as the ‘Not Me,’ that is, both nature and art, all other men and my own body, must be ranked under this name, ‘Nature.’
Art requires philosophy, just as philosophy requires art. Otherwise, what would become of beauty?
Small amounts of philosophy lead to atheism, but larger amounts bring us back to God.
It’ll be the Internet and piracy that will kill film. There’s a philosophy that the Internet should be free, but the reality is that piracy will destroy the film industry and film as an art form because it’s expensive to make a movie. Maybe you’ll have funky little independent movies, and it’ll go back and then start up again some other way.
Medicine rests upon four pillars – philosophy, astronomy, alchemy, and ethics.
Grounded in the natural philosophy of the Middle Ages, alchemy formed a bridge: on the one hand into the past, to Gnosticism, and on the other into the future, to the modern psychology of the unconscious.
My pitching philosophy is simple – keep the ball way from the bat.
I like Jacques Derrida; I think he’s funny. I like my philosophy with a few jokes and puns. I know that that offends other philosophers; they think he’s not taking things seriously, but he comes up with some marvellous puns. Why shouldn’t you have a bit of fun while dealing with the deepest issues of the mind?
Notoriously outspoken, his sentences always punctuated with profanities, General George S. Patton was the epitome of what a leader should be like – or so he thought. Patton believed a leader should look and act tough, so he cultivated his image and his personality to match his philosophy.
A lot of people misunderstand what is Strong Style. Hard hits? Stiff? I don’t think so. Strong Style is a kind of philosophy.
I have no idea who coined the term ‘the New Journalism,’ or when it was coined. I have never even liked the term. Any movement, group, party, program, philosophy or theory that goes under a name with ‘new’ in it is just begging for trouble, of course.
I decided to teach because I think that any person who studies philosophy has to be involved actively.
Weight loss can change your whole character. That always amazed me: Shedding pounds does change your personality. It changes your philosophy of life because you recognize that you are capable of using your mind to change your body.
Instead of art I have taught philosophy. Though technique for me is a big word, I never have taught how to paint. All my doing was to make people to see.