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 a simple philosophy: Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. Scratch where it itches.

Philosophy is a kind of journey ever learning yet never arriving at the ideal perfection of truth.

Human knowledge is dark and uncertain philosophy is dark astrology is dark and geometry is dark.

We have no firm hold on any knowledge or philosophy that can lift us out of our difficulties.

Science gives us knowledge but only philosophy can give us wisdom.

My philosophy of leadership is to surround myself with good people who have ability judgment and knowledge but above all a passion for service.

What does mysticism really mean? It means the way to attain knowledge. It's close to philosophy except in philosophy you go horizontally while in mysticism you go vertically.

Dogmatism and skepticism are both in a sense absolute philosophies one is certain of knowing the other of not knowing. What philosophy should dissipate is certainty whether of knowledge or ignorance.

Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language.

Philosophy and Art both render the invisible visible by imagination.

Roosevelt's humor was broad his manner friendly. Of wit there was little of philosophy none. What did he possess? Intuition inspiration love of adventure.

I think the way IBM has embraced the open source philosophy has been quite astonishing but gratifying. I hope they'll do very well with it.

Hope founded upon a human being a man-made philosophy or any institution is always misplaced... because these things are unreliable and fleeting.

Philosophy is properly home-sickness the wish to be everywhere at home.

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.

If history philosophy and so on vanish from academic life what they leave in their wake may be a technical training facility or corporate research institute. But it will not be a university in the classical sense of the term and it would be deceptive to call it one.

Jews have a special relationship to books and the Haggadah has been translated more widely and reprinted more often than any other Jewish book. It is not a work of history or philosophy not a prayer book user's manual timeline poem or palimpsest - and yet it is all these things.

The truth is of course that history is not completed in modern commerce any more than philosophy is perfected in political economy. In other words there is nothing timeless or God-given about filling stations and penicillin and plastic bags.

I learned much more about acting from philosophy courses psychology courses history and anthropology than I ever learned in acting class.

History is Philosophy teaching by example.

Skepticism is a virtue in history as well as in philosophy.

History should be written as philosophy.

Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy.