Philosophy must never be divorced from action. Unless it is put into practice, philosophy is nothing more than an intellectual game.
It is legitimate to have one's own point of view and political philosophy. But there are people who make anger, rather than a deeply held belief, the basis of their actions. They do not seem to mind harming society as a whole in the pursuit of their immediate objective. No society can survive if it yields to the demands of frenzy, whether of the few or the many.
You must fully understand, strongly believe in, and be totally committed to your trading philosophy. In order to achieve that mental state, you have to do a great deal of independent research. A trading philosophy is something that cannot just be transferred from one person to another; it's something that you have to acquire yourself through time and effort.
The Philosophy of Princes is to dive into the Secrets of men, leaving the secrets of nature to those that have spare time.
My philosophy of life can be summed up in four words: It can't be helped.
Now look at me! Take a good look! I was born and I knew I was alive and I knew what I wanted. What do you think is alive in me? Why do you think I'm alive? Because I have a stomach and eat and digest the food? Because I breathe and work and produce more food to digest? Or because I know what I want, and that something which knows how to want—isn't that life itself? And who—in this damned universe—who can tell me why I should live for anything but for that which I want?
Don't see anything impossible! This simple philosophy will enable many things to be possible!
It's the age of reason for the anarchist.
These precious things, let them bleed.
There will always be a business cycle, and white-collar workers will get hit in the next recession like they always do in recessions.
I try to tell student writers to read as much as possible, not only literature but philosophy, theory, and to form obsessions. There's a big taboo in fiction creative writing workshops against using the self at all, and I think I try to encourage students to write the self, but to connect the self to something larger, which is to be this thinking, seeing, searching, eternally curious person, and that writing can come out of investigating and trying to understand confusion, and doubts, and obsessions.
Realism is a philosophy as opposed to a style. For me, painting is about observing and recording my existence as accurately as I can, it's my way of understanding the world around me and staying constantly engaged with it, the more carefully and patiently I look at what interests me in the world the more faithfully and honestly I can document it. It is only through intense, subtly nuanced observation that we develop an understanding of the psychology of the subject.
To learn is not to know; there are the learners and the learned. Memory makes the one, philosophy the others.
In the eyes of dialectical philosophy, nothing is established for all times, nothing is absolute or sacred.
I've not got a first in philosophy without being able to muddy things pretty satisfactory.
Casey Maddox wrote that when philosophy dies, action begins. I would say in addition that when we stop hoping for external assistance, when we stop hoping that the awful situation we're in will somehow resolve itself, when we stop hoping the situation will somehow not get worse, then we are finally free - truly free - to honestly start working to thoroughly resolve it. I would say when hope dies, action begins.
Without philosophy, history is always for me dead and dumb.
An idea will infect another with its own emotional interest when they have become both associated together into any sort of a mental total.
There is a bizarre notion according to which it is claimed that because men are corrupt, it is necessary to give certain of them all the more power. . . on the contrary, they must be given less power.
Gentlemen, haven't we learned anything from the music of John Lennon? All we need is love.
