Top 460 Philosophy Quotes

Maybe it’s my libertarian philosophy: but being in government is hard.
John Bolton
I do not own a single security anywhere that doesn’t pay a dividend, and I formed a mutual-fund company with that very simple philosophy.
Kevin O’Leary
My philosophy has always been, ‘do what you love and the money will follow.’
Amy Weber
My philosophy is my learning process. Until you die, you must evolve and improve.
Miyavi
My philosophy was that I never had focus groups.
Ralph Lauren
Yeah, but in the end his followers take what they want from his philosophy. Maybe it doesn’t matter what’s going on in David Icke’s mind. It’s how other people take him.
Jon Ronson
Cooking is a philosophy; it’s not a recipe.
Marco Pierre White
Historically, China is not a nation of sportsmen. We traditionally put more emphasis on being close to nature than pushing endlessly to excel. A philosophy that values tranquil contemplation of the landscape cannot easily be adapted to the Olympic slogan of ‘higher, stronger, faster.’
Ai Weiwei
My philosophy is, I can’t make every product that can possibly use a high-performance CPU and graphics. Why shouldn’t I enable others, in a positive fashion, to leverage AMD IP in more places?
Lisa Su
Real philosophy is like trying to read an alarm system installation manual in Korean.
Chris Hardwick
I think we ought always to entertain our opinions with

I think we ought always to entertain our opinions with some measure of doubt. I shouldn’t wish people dogmatically to believe any philosophy, not even mine.
Bertrand Russell
Angels and Airwaves is a complete, pure reflection of who I am. The philosophy, the spiritualism, the esotericism, the idea of hope and space and the themes about life and grandeur… that’s all me.
Tom DeLonge
It’s kind of my whole philosophy as an actor. I think that’s what we’re supposed to do is play a wide range of characters – or it’s just what I like to do, I should say. I like to try to be as different as I can from one thing to the next.
Garret Dillahunt
I mean, we are tribal by nature, and sometimes success and material wealth can divide and separate – it’s not a new philosophy I’m sharing – more than hardship, hardship tends to unify.
Colin Farrell
The Occultists, however, know that the traditions of Esoteric Philosophy must be the right ones, simply because they are the most logical, and reconcile every difficulty.
Helena Blavatsky
I love to garden and cook whenever I get the chance and escape anywhere that’s peaceful and quiet. My philosophy on living well is to always stay positive in life.
Francisco Costa
To me, what philosophy does best is reflect on knowledge that’s generated in other areas.
Lawrence M. Krauss
The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.
Abraham Lincoln
That Britain today is a liberal society is largely because of the philosophy and outlook of the Anglican Church, which did so much to shape our core values in the past few centuries.
Robert Winston
Being able to borrow against one’s crypto assets gives one options, when wanting to purchase a property, and aligns with my philosophy that real estate and tokenization will be a quadrillion dollar market.
Brock Pierce
My philosophy is, ‘Eat when hungry, stop when you’re full.’
Tamara Taylor
Nature, philosophy and social issues are the three things that always occupy my mind. You do not have any power over others but can only change yourself.
Pawan Kalyan
The arrogance that says analysing the relationship between reasons and causes is more important than writing a philosophy of shyness or sadness or friendship drives me nuts. I can’t accept that.
Alain de Botton
Communicated in the right way, Judeo-Christian philosophy and the religions that uphold it bind a citizenry together in pursuit of a just and generous society.
Bill O’Reilly
Truth as such is not a particularly important concept in naturalistic philosophy.
Phillip E. Johnson
We ought to have more people who believe in constitutionally limited government. We have to have more people come to Congress with that mindset. I think we can make this a better place, if, when elections happen, we support candidates who share that philosophy.
Mike Lee
The philosophy of fasting calls upon us to know ourselves, to master ourselves, and to discipline ourselves the better to free ourselves. To fast is to identify our dependencies, and free ourselves from them.
Tariq Ramadan
I would like to try harder to establish my thought and philosophy strongly and to go back to the universe with my love.
Yayoi Kusama
My philosophy is the thicker the wood the thicker the sound, the bigger the string the bigger the sound. My smallest string is a 14 gauge.
Dick Dale
A cold atheistical materialism is the tendency of the so-called material philosophy of the present day.
Adam Sedgwick
Mayors of New York have been elected not because of their party label, but because of their philosophy and their approach overall, and that has been since time immemoriam in New York, that people are not party-oriented in New York.
Joe Lhota
We shifted our philosophy from being a computer mapping group that would support planners to the idea of building actual software that would be well engineered. Because at that time, our software was not well-engineered at all; it was basically built with project funding and for project work, largely by ourselves.
Jack Dangermond
There will be no end to the troubles of states, or of humanity itself, till philosophers become kings in this world, or till those we now call kings and rulers really and truly become philosophers, and political power and philosophy thus come into the same hands.
Plato
It is absolutely bedrock to the British Army’s philosophy that a commanding officer is responsible for what goes on within his command.
Mike Jackson
I love philosophy and spirituality and leveling-up books and science books.
Tony Gonzalez
I have spent a lot of my career working on normative political philosophy, developing the ‘capabilities approach’ to social justice. I have also spent a lot of my career working on the structure of the emotions, and their role in human life.
Martha Nussbaum
If philosophy is to be a valuable part of life, we have to appreciate it for its own sake, and not just for what it’s done for us lately.
Julian Baggini
My philosophy is that I’m an artist. I perform an art not with a paint brush or a camera. I perform with bodily movement. Instead of exhibiting my art in a museum or a book or on canvas, I exhibit my art in front of the multitudes.
Steve Prefontaine
Any philosophy that can be put in a nutshell belongs there.
Sydney J. Harris
It is function of government to invent philosophies to explain the demands of its own convenience.
Murray Kempton
Thatgamecompany was founded with the philosophy that games are a form of entertainment, and entertainment is the food for emotion.
Jenova Chen
We need to send Barack Obama back to Chicago. I'd like

We need to send Barack Obama back to Chicago. I’d like to send him back to Kenya, back to Indonesia. We have to unmask this man. This is a man that seeks to destroy all concept of God. And I will tell you what, this is classical Marxist philosophy.
Rafael Cruz
I believe in the Democratic party, and their philosophy and what they stand for – for the poor people.
Dikembe Mutombo
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.
Karl Jaspers
My fashion philosophy is, if you’re not covered in dog hair, your life is empty.
Elayne Boosler
My philosophy is: Life is hard, but God is good. Try not to confuse the two.
Anne F. Beiler
That is why I believe that art is so much more significant than either economics or philosophy. It is the direct measure of man’s spiritual vision.
Herbert Read
What humanity needs today is not merely philosophy or theology, but a message or reassurance.
Dada Vaswani
I think I probably have the philosophy of a poor man. You know, like maybe I’d steal the pennies off a dead man’s eyes.
John Cassavetes
One may summon his philosophy when they are beaten in battle, not till then.
John Burroughs
At the present moment, the security of coherent philosophy, which existed from Parmenides to Hegel, is lost.
Karl Jaspers
I am very proud of The Saints and I’m very glad that I’ve been associated with them all these years, but the next record is the best record… has to be the philosophy for any band that remains even halfway decent or vibrant, and that is kind of where my head’s at.
Chris Bailey
For me, Buddhism is a psychology and a philosophy that provides a means, upayas, for working with the mind.
Joan Halifax
I am a misanthrope and yet utterly benevolent, have more than one screw loose yet am a super-idealist who digests philosophy more efficiently than food.
Alfred Nobel
As I read more and I got into philosophy and met a lot of friends who weren’t Christians, it became difficult for me to sustain the belief structure in the supernatural.
Daniel Everett
Whatever it takes, the job of the director is to be the leader and to get your actors where they need to go. That’s a philosophy that I have.
Shawn Levy
My philosophy is that when I go out of my room, I’m prepared to love everybody I meet, unless they’re bad.
Omar Sharif
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.
James Buchan
Here, the broader issues are already familiar, and discussion has focused at a more sophisticated and detailed level. Within the philosophy of mind, the problem of consciousness is no big news.
David Chalmers
My philosophy is familiarity breeds contempt.
Chaka Khan
Besides numerous science courses, I had the opportunity to study philosophy, the history of architecture, economics, and Russian history in courses taught by extraordinarily knowledgeable professors.
Stanley B. Prusiner
Without philosophy, history is always for me dead and dumb.
Ferdinand Christian Baur