Quotes by Philosophy All my life I've been aware of the Second World War humming in the background. I was born 10 years after it was finished, and without ever seeing it. It formed my generation and the world we lived in. I played Hurricanes and Spitfires in the playground, and war films still form the basis of all my moral philosophy. All the men I've ever got to my feet for or called sir had been in the war. A. A. Gill menphilosophywar Religion without philosophy is sentiment, or sometimes fanaticism, while philosophy without religion is mental speculation. A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada speculationsometimesphilosophy To be nonviolent to human beings and to be a killer or enemy of the poor animals is Satan's philosophy. In this age there is always enmity against poor animals, and therefore the poor creatures are always anxious. The reaction of the poor animals is being forced on human society, and therefore there is always strain of cold or hot war between men, individually, collectively or nationally. A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada menphilosophywar Men have presented their plans and philosophies for the remedying of earth's ills, but Jesus stands alone in presenting not a system, but His own personality as capable of supplying the needs of the soul. A. C. Dixon menphilosophyjesus I am not a pessimist but a pejorist (as George Eliot said she was not an optimist but a meliorist); and that philosophy is founded on my observation of the world, not on anything so trivial and irrelevant as personal history. A. E. Housman personal-historyhistoricalphilosophy If a musician wants to blossom into a full-fledged person, it's not enough if he knows only classical music; nor it is enough if he's well-versed only in raagas and techniques. Instead, he should be a knowledgeable person interested in life and philosophy. In his personal life there should be, atleast in some corner of his heart, a tinge of lingering sorrow. A. R. Rahman knowledgeable-personheartphilosophy There are times when the end justifies the means. But when you build an argument based on a whole series of such times, you may find that you've constructed an entire philosophy of evil." --Luke Skywalker Aaron Allston evilphilosophymean The philosophy of the school was quite simple - the bright boys specialised in Latin, the not so bright in science and the rest managed with geography or the like. Aaron Klug latinphilosophyschool Don't be ashamed to let your conscience be your guide. Aaron Neville ashamedguidesphilosophy I like to cook with the philosophy of using great ingredients and not altering them too much. Aaron Sanchez ingredientstoo-muchphilosophy Science has revealed that the human body is made up of millions and millions of atoms... For example, I am made up of 5.8x10^27 atoms. Abdul Kalam medicineinspirationalphilosophy Philosophy may be defined as the art of asking the right question...awareness of the problem outlives all solutions. The answers are questions in disguise, every new answer giving rise to new questions. Abraham Joshua Heschel givingphilosophyart Philosophy, to be relevant, must offer us a wisdom to live by. Abraham Joshua Heschel relevantlive-byphilosophy A philosophy which speaks, even indirectly, only to philosophers is no philosophy at all; and I think the same is true if it speaks only to scientists, or only to jurists, or priests, or any other special class. Abraham Kaplan classphilosophythinking The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next. Abraham Lincoln educationmotivationalphilosophy Human nature will not change. In any future great national trial, compared with the men of this, we shall have as weak and as strong, as silly and as wise, as bad and as good. Let us therefore study the incidents in this as philosophy to learn wisdom from and none of them as wrongs to be avenged. Abraham Lincoln strongwisephilosophy There are no accidents in my philosophy. Every effect must have its cause. The past is the cause of the present, and the present will be the cause of the future. All these are links in the endless chain stretching from the finite to the infinite. Abraham Lincoln presidentphilosophypast The study of crippled, stunted, immature, and unhealthy specimens can yield only a cripple psychology and a cripple philosophy Abraham Maslow psychologyyieldphilosophy The human being needs a framework of values, a philosophy of life, a religion or religion-surrogate to live by and understand by, in about the same sense that he needs sunlight, calcium or love. Abraham Maslow sunlightphilosophyneeds Humanism is the philosophy that you should be a good guest at the dinner table of life. A.C. Grayling dinner-tableguestsphilosophy1234567891011»
