I met my wife Anne who was a sociology student and her influence together with activities associated with the student movement of the time opened up my interests amongst other things into the theatre art music politics and philosophy.

My philosophy comes from a worldview that looks at the world as one. It's a holistic view that sees the world as interconnected and interdependent and integrated in so many different ways which informs my politics.

I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.

I never considered a difference of opinion in politics in religion in philosophy as cause for withdrawing from a friend.

We live in a world in which politics has replaced philosophy.

The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy that is the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.

Conversation may be compared to a lyre with seven chords - philosophy art poetry love scandal and the weather.

But it is the province of religion of philosophy of pure poetry only to go beyond life beyond time into eternity.

Even if you only want to write science fiction you should also read mysteries poetry mainstream literature history biography philosophy and science.

He who has religion will speak poetry. But philosophy is the tool with which to seek and discover religion.

One has only as much morality as one has philosophy and poetry.

When truth has no burning then it is philosophy when it gets burning from the heart it becomes poetry.

I challenge anybody to say that I wouldn't know how to approach foreign policy because unlike some of the other people I at least have a foreign policy philosophy which is an extension of the Reagan philosophy. Peace through strength and my philosophy is peace through strength and clarity.

The real discovery is the one which enables me to stop doing philosophy when I want to. The one that gives philosophy peace so that it is no longer tormented by questions which bring itself into question.

Philosophy would render us entirely Pyrrhonian were not nature too strong for it.

Ayurveda is a sister philosophy to yoga. It is the science of life or longevity and it teaches about the power and the cycles of nature as well as the elements.

Here's the thing with me and the religious thing. This is the flat-out truth: I find the religiosity and philosophy in the music. I don't find it anywhere else.