Philosophy Quotes - Page 62

I want to enjoy the languor of just living, recognizing, acknowledging, taking it in, sort of amplifying it in some way. [Photography] is a great medium for that. It happens in an instant, but it gives you hours or days of time to reflect on things. It’s a beautiful system, this game of photography, to see in an instant and go back and think about later on. It’s pure philosophy. And poetry.

Your income is directly related to your philosophy, NOT the economy.

The thing that will make the biggest difference to your business, your bank account, your health and your relationships in the next 12 months is your philosophy

I really believe in the philosophy that you create your own universe. I'm just trying to create a good one for myself.

Most of these feminists are radical, frustrated lesbians, many of them, and man-haters, and failures in their relationships with men, and who have declared war on the male gender. The biblical condemnation of feminism has to do with its radical philosophy and goals. That's the bottom line.

Roosevelt talked not only about Freedom from Fear, but also Freedom from Want.

A man is always a teller of tales, he lives surrounded by his stories and the stories of others, he sees everything that happens to him through them; and he tries to live his life as if he were recounting it.

Philosophy is common sense with big words.

I believed in a good home, in sane and sound living, in good food, good times, work, faith and hope. I have always believed in these things. It was with some amazement that I realized I was one of the few people in the world who really believed in these things without going around making a dull middle class philosophy out of it. I was suddenly left with nothing in my hands but a handful of crazy stars.

The best and safest way of philosophising seems to be, first to enquire diligently into the properties of things, and to establish those properties by experiences [experiments] and then to proceed slowly to hypotheses for the explanation of them. For hypotheses should be employed only in explaining the properties of things, but not assumed in determining them; unless so far as they may furnish experiments.

We need a moral philosophy in which the concept of love, so rarely mentioned now by philosophers, can once again be made central.

The more I drive myself into the depth of my inside, the more things come up to my vision, visibly or invisibly... I even do not know if I am seeing them with my eye or with my mind. I just need to copy them on my canvases. But this mental process is always overwhelming. I often have hard time to deal with my emotion on this state. You could call this depression on surface? But actually, so many 're-birth' and 'reform' are going on on my thoughts, inspiration, philosophy...etc in the underwater. I believe this struggle make my art real. My art always comes from my emotion.

Man may be considered as a superior species of animal that produces philosophies and poems in about the same way a silkworm produces their cocoons and bees their hives.

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.

To be a philosopher... is to solve some of the problems of life, not only theoretically, but practically.

There is nothing in philosophy which could not be said in everyday language.

The rage for wanting to conclude is one of the most deadly and most fruitless manias to befall humanity. Each religion and each philosophy has pretended to have God to itself, to measure the infinite, and to know the recipe for happiness. What arrogance and what nonsense! I see, to the contrary, that the greatest geniuses and the greatest works have never concluded.

An image of thought called philosophy has been formed historically and it effectively stops people from thinking.

A prison becomes a home when you have the key.

To be is to be perceived

Philosophy is the history of philosophy.

The courage of the truth is the first condition of philosophic study.

Music is part of the tantra, the dance of life. Before your eyes, before your awareness, is the procession of eternity.

Philosophy triumphs easily over past evils and future evils, but present evils triumph over it.

Live each day, as if it we're your last. It's written in the stars, your destiny is cast.