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As a dad, he thinks that his philosophy is morally correct. He has no conscience whatsoever about letting his kids put a penny in a light socket to find out electricity is not so good for you, and if you want to learn how to swim, you have to be thrown into the deep end.

You do what you have to do in life, when you form a philosophy that you can't talk yourself out of.

Constantine Karamanlis

People who decide they came to earth to work, who make work their personal philosophy, are kept very busy.

Constantine Karamanlis

There is no heresy or no philosophy which is so abhorrent to the church as a human being.

We must exchange the philosophy of excuse - what I am is beyond my control for the philosophy of responsibility.

Even if we don't know it or aren't aware of it, politics and philosophy are really what make our up lives.

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

During half a century of literary work, I have endeavoured to introduce the philosophy of evolution into the sphere of literature, and to inspire my readers to think in evolutionary terms.

Johannes Vilhelm Jensen

I am an Epicurean. I consider the genuine (not the imputed) doctrines of Epicurus as containing everything rational in moral philosophy which Greek and Roman leave to us.

Thomas Jefferson

I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.

Thomas Jefferson

Philosophy can only be approached with the most concrete comprehension.

Philosophy is tested and characterised by the way in which it appropriates its history.

Philosophy as practice does not mean its restriction to utility or applicability, that is, to what serves morality or produces serenity of soul.

As a universal history of philosophy, the history of philosophy must become one great unity.

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.