One of two things is usually lacking in the so-called Philosophy of Art: either philosophy or art.
[. . . ] to introduce into the philosophy of war itself a principle of moderation would be an absurdity
I was once a skeptic but was converted by the two missionaries on either side of my nose.
There is a new philosophy for weapons: it's more expensive to hurt people than to kill people. It's terrible. When you have a band of guys on the battlefield, if someone is dead, he's dead. If someone is injured then they have to take care of him, so six people are busy.
Plato. . . says a multitude can never philosophize and hence can never recognize the seriousness of philosophy or who really philosophizes. Attempting to influence the multitude results in forced prostitution.
Golf is 20 percent mechanics and technique. The other 80 pecent is philosophy, humor, tragedy, romance, melodrama, companionship, camaraderie, cussedness and conversation.
The truth of faith about creation is radically opposed to the theories of materialistic philosophy. These view the cosmos as the result of an evolution of matter reducible to pure chance and necessity.
The Encyclopedia - the advance artillery of reason, the armada of philosophy, the siege engine of the enlightenment.
The American people need no course in philosophy or political science or church history to know that God should not be made into a celestial party chairman.
And as this is the obvious appearance of things, it must be admitted, till some hypothesis be discovered, which by penetrating deeper into human nature, may prove the former affections to be nothing but modifications of the latter. All attempts of this kind have hitherto proved fruitless, and seem to have proceeded entirely from that love of simplicity which has been the source of much false reasoning in philosophy.
. . . But nature does not say that cats are more valuable than mice; nature makes no remark on the subject. She does not even say that the cat is enviable or the mouse pitiable. We think the cat superior because we have (or most of us have) a particular philosophy to the effect that life is better than death. But if the mouse were a German pessimist mouse, he might not think that the cat had beaten him at all. He might think he had beaten the cat by getting to the grave first.
That's how it happens, livin life by the drop.
I was very fierce and very driven at eighteen. But my basic philosophy I think has stayed the same, I'm still an atheist, I still believe strongly in the power of free will (despite the mysticism in my prose). I don't believe in the notion of a pre-ordained destiny, and I think because of the sudden death of my father at sixteen I learnt then that it is essential to live life to the fullest as it could be snatched away at any second.
Philosophy changes day by day.
The next time anyone asks you "What is Bertrand Russell's philosophy?" the correct answer is "What year, please?"
Globalization and free trade do spur economic growth, and they lead to lower prices on many goods.
Broaden your vision, and maintain stability while advancing forward. That is my philosophy.
My connection to Santa Fe is very closely, and continuously a connection with Reid. I believe in him and his philosophy of photographic education.
Many of our ideas of democracy, so much of our literature and philosophy and science can be traced back to roots right here in Athens.
Persons who have been homeless carry within them a certain philosophy of life which makes them apprehensive about ownership.