Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history since its statements are rather of the nature of universals whereas those of history are singulars.

Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history for poetry expresses the universal and history only the particular.

My cooking philosophy what I try to do is to make a cuisine where the produce and the product shines compared to some current trends that are maybe more adding additional things like molecular cuisine with a lot of additives and chemicals which are now showing that they could be bad for your health.

Some of us learned in a school of philosophy which taught that all was for the common good and nothing for oneself and have never in any case regarded the pursuit of happiness as anything other than an aberration of the human spirit.

My whole working philosophy is that the only stable happiness for mankind is that it shall live married in blessed union to woman-kind - intimacy physical and psychical between a man and his wife. I wish to add that my state of bliss is by no means perfect.

Life does not agree with philosophy: There is no happiness that is not idleness and only what is useless is pleasurable.

The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.

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.

The philosopher has never killed any priests whereas the priest has killed a great many philosophers.

The theoretical understanding of the world which is the aim of philosophy is not a matter of great practical importance to animals or to savages or even to most civilised men.

The history of philosophy is to a great extent that of a certain clash of human temperaments.

The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.

Greek philosophy seems to have met with something with which a good tragedy is not supposed to meet namely a dull ending.

Dogs and philosophers do the greatest good and get the fewest rewards.

The society which scorns excellence in plumbing as a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exalted activity will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy: neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water.

My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy if not you'll become a philosopher.

By all means marry. If you get a good wife you'll become happy if you get a bad one you'll become a philosopher.

God created man in His own image says the Bible philosophers reverse the process: they create God in theirs.

Small amounts of philosophy lead to atheism but larger amounts bring us back to God.

God is the great mysterious motivator of what we call nature and it has often been said by philosophers that nature is the will of God. And I prefer to say that nature is the only body of God that we shall ever see.

Religions do a useful thing: they narrow God to the limits of man. Philosophy replies by doing a necessary thing: it elevates man to the plane of God.

The German philosopher Walter Benjamin had the curious notion that we could change the past. For most of us the past is fixed while the future is open.

My philosophy is to take one day at a time. I don't worry about the future. Tomorrow is even out of sight for me.

Plato's philosophy is a dignified preface to future religion.