Good-humor is a philosophic state of mind; it seems to say to Nature that we take her no more seriously than she takes us. I maintain that one should always talk of philosophy with a smile.
It's no use trying to talk philosophy to our politicians. And I'm not a moral or political philosopher. I'm not interested in that.
In their different ways, art and philosophy help us, in Schopenhauer 's words, to turn pain into knowledge.
Once you've fallen from classical virtue, won't have a soul for to wake up and hold you.
It's the old American Double Standard, ya know: Say one thing, do somethin' different. And of course this country is founded on the double standard. That's our history. We were founded on a very basic double standard: This country was founded by slave owners who wanted to be free.
The test of all beliefs is their practical effect in life. If it be true that optimism compels the world forward, and pessimism retards it, then it is dangerous to propagate a pessimistic philosophy.
Ah, the camel of Cairo!. . . He went quietly and comfortably through the narrowest lanes and the densest crowds by the mere force of his personality. He was the most impressive living thing we saw in Egypt, not excepting two Pashas and a Bey. He was engaged with large philosophies, one could see that.
Judicial excellence means that a Supreme Court justice must have a sense of the values from which our core of our political- economic system goes. In other words, we should not approve any nominee whose extreme judicial philosophy would undermine rights and liberties relied upon by all Americans.
I don't know that I have a single comedy philosophy. But talking about things that matter to you is a good place to start. Listening is a big part of it, too.
Philosophy does not regard pedigree, she received Plato not as a noble, but she made him one.
The evil that has resulted from the error of the schools, in teaching natural philosophy as an accomplishment only, has been that of generating in the pupils a species of atheism. Instead of looking through the works of creation to the Creator himself, they stop short, and employ the knowledge they acquire to create doubts of his existence. They labour with studied ingenuity to ascribe every thing they behold to innate properties of matter, and jump over all the rest by saying, that matter is eternal.
Philosophy is not a theory but an activity.
Everything is beautiful in its own way.
The current disfavor into which socialism has fallen has spurred. . . . the frenzy to proclaim oneself a liberal. Many writers today have recourse to the strategem of inventing for oneself a liberalism according to one's own tastes and passing it off as an evolution from past ideas.
White folks was in the caves while we [blacks] was building empires. . . We built pyramids before Donald Trump ever knew what architecture was. . . we taught philosophy and astrology and mathematics before Socrates and them Greek homos ever got around to it.
The philosophy of the wisest man that ever existed, is mainly derived from the act of introspection.
My philosophy of defense is to keep the pressure on an opponent until you get to his emotions
Touch comes before sight, before speech. It is the first language and the last, and it always tells the truth.
Real philosophy is like trying to read an alarm system installation manual in Korean.
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.
