I think that there is nothing not even crime more opposed to poetry to philosophy ay to life itself than this incessant business.
Only then approaching my fortieth birthday I made philosophy my life's work.
My philosophy is not a bean-counting accounting 'look at this.' It is a philosophy that smaller government is better government and government that is closer to the people is best of all.
Philosophy begins in wonder. And at the end when philosophic thought has done its best the wonder remains.
People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind.
My philosophy is that not only are you responsible for your life but doing the best at this moment puts you I the best place for the next moment.
One's philosophy is not best expressed in words it is expressed in the choices one makes... and the choices we make are ultimately our responsibility.
I live by the philosophy that beauty starts from within and I make a conscious effort to fill my body with nutrients through the food I eat.
Art requires philosophy just as philosophy requires art. Otherwise what would become of beauty?
My dad had this philosophy that if you tell children they're beautiful and wonderful then they believe it and they will be. So I never thought I was unattractive. But I was never one of the girls at school who had lots of boyfriends.
Bader's philosophy was my philosophy. His whole attitude to life was mine.
If philosophy is practice a demand to know the manner in which its history is to be studied is entailed: a theoretical attitude toward it becomes real only in the living appropriation of its contents from the texts.
'UFO's' attitude toward the subject is very similar to mine. It's not an advocacy its philosophy is more 'I want to believe this but I want it proved.'
My parents have a strong work ethic but their attitude to life their philosophy is: 'whatever makes you happy.'
Mathematics is as it were a sensuous logic and relates to philosophy as do the arts music and plastic art to poetry.
When science art literature and philosophy are simply the manifestation of personality they are on a level where glorious and dazzling achievements are possible which can make a man's name live for thousands of years.
The love of all-inclusiveness is as dangerous in philosophy as in art.
Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art.
A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly science into superstition and art into pedantry. Hence University education.
Friendship is unnecessary like philosophy like art... It has no survival value rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.
Art for art's sake is a philosophy of the well-fed.
Italy is full of historical buildings. And Europe holds a great history of philosophy from Greece until today. I read all those books and see these buildings and I think of where I stand when I design my architecture.
As a system of philosophy it is not like the Tower of Babel so daring its high aim as to seek a shelter against God's anger but it is like a pyramid poised on its apex.
Bruce Lee was very famous. I watched his movies and he is amazing. He is a martial arts master his philosophy his movement both physically and mentally were very strong.
That's always a cool thing to be the voice of what the eyes are seeing. It gives you the role of the Greek chorus and that's always fun to do.