Astonishment is the root of philosophy.
I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business.
I don't believe in quotas. America was founded on a philosophy of individual rights, not group rights.
Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy.
It seems essential to try to find some meaning to life and I guess Jungian philosophy is the one that's helped me understand myself and the world more than anything else.
Evolution is a bankrupt speculative philosophy, not a scientific fact. Only a spiritually bankrupt society could ever believe it. Only atheists could accept this Satanic theory.
My philosophy? Simplicity plus variety.
I just learned my lyrics and tried not to bump into the trumpet player. That was my philosophy.
I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.
Art and religion first; then philosophy; lastly science. That is the order of the great subjects of life, that's their order of importance.
I think he's informing himself, reaching out and getting ideas and information and advice. I haven't the slightest doubt that internally taking shape in that marvelous brain of his is a philosophy of foreign affairs. But it would be premature to say that one is fully formed.
But if it not be true, the myth itself requires to be explained, and every principle of philosophy and common sense demand that the explanation be sought, not in arbitrary allegorical categories, but in the actual facts of ritual or religious custom to which the myth attaches.
Modern sociology is virtually an attempt to take up the larger program of social analysis and interpretation which was implicit in Adam Smith's moral philosophy, but which was suppressed for a century by prevailing interest in the technique of the production of wealth.
The war was the end of an era, in art as well. And we were trying to create a new philosophy.
My mother is probably the wisest person I've ever known. She's not schooled, she's not well read. But she has a philosophy of life that makes well-read people seem like morons.