Philosophy bakes no bread
There is no muse of philosophy, nor is there one of translation.
Who am I, why am I here? Forget the question, someone give me another beer.
As long as one believes in philosophy, one is healthy; sickness begins when one starts to think.
Philosophy is not one truth, but thousands of truths. You don't have to believe in just one thing. When you chose one idea, you close yourself to the rest.
I like the idea that neither makes any romantic move until their philosophies are aligned.
My philosophy is that you can't motivate players with speeches, you have motivated players that you draft. That's where they come in and those are the guys that are competitive. You cannot teach competitiveness.
Laughter without a tinge of philosophy is but a sneeze of humor. Genuine humor is replete with wisdom.
I am interested in study, reflection, philosophy - but always as a dilettante. I also consider myself a dilettante as a painter.
The work of art may have a moral effect, but to demand moral purpose from the artist is to make him ruin his work.
Philosophy can add to our happiness in no other manner but by diminishing our misery; it should not pretend to increase our present stock, but make us economists of what we are possessed of. Happy were we all born philosophers; all born with a talent of thus dissipating our own cares by spreading them upon all mankind.
Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions, and can never pretend to any other office than to serve and obey them.
If I were still stupider than I am, I should think myself at the apex of my career; yet I know how much I still lack, to reach perfection; I see it the more clearly now that I live only among first-rank artists and know what each one of them lacks.
The artist must be a philosopher. Socrates the skilled sculptor, Jean-Jacques [Rousseau] the good musician, and the immortal Poussin, tracing on the canvas the sublime lessons of philosophy, are so many proofs that an artistic genius should have no other guide except the torch of reason.
Neither party has God on its side, a monopoly on good ideas, or a lock on any single fiscal, social, or moral philosophy.
The unexamined life is not worth living for a human being.
An intelligent being, is the active principle of all things. One must have renounced all common sense to doubt it, and it is a waste of time to try to prove such self evident truth.
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.
Good Governance cannot remain merely a philosophy. Concrete steps have to be taken for realizing its goals.
The Revolution won't happen with guns, rather it will happen incrementally, year by year, generation by generation. We will gradually infiltrate their educational institutions and their political offices, transforming them slowly into Marxist entities as we move towards universal egalitarianism.