The word philosophy sounds high-minded but it simply means the love of wisdom. If you love something you don't just read about it you hug it you mess with it you play with it you argue with it.
The hunger for facile wisdom is the root of all false philosophy.
Rightly defined philosophy is simply the love of wisdom.
There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy.
Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children.
As a result of my philosophy I wasn't even upset about Hitler. I was willing to go to war to knock him off but I didn't hate him. I hated what he was doing.
Truth in philosophy means that concept and external reality correspond.
It is possible to be a master in false philosophy easier in fact than to be a master in the truth because a false philosophy can be made as simple and consistent as one pleases.
I stepped away to find out more about myself which I was having difficulty doing as a football player. I got a chance to travel the world. I studied Eastern philosophy and I've grown as a person so much.
To have no time for philosophy is to be a true philosopher.
The Linux philosophy is 'Laugh in the face of danger'. Oops. Wrong One. 'Do it yourself'. Yes that's it.
I was born in Norway and when I was little I went to live in Detroit Michigan. My father was a professor of philosophy at Wayne University and my mother was also a teacher.
A creative element is surely present in all great systems and it does not seem possible that all sympathy or fundamental attitudes of will can be entirely eliminated from any human philosophy.
We do not learn by inference and deduction and the application of mathematics to philosophy but by direct intercourse and sympathy.
I mean we are tribal by nature and sometimes success and material wealth can divide and separate - it's not a new philosophy I'm sharing - more than hardship hardship tends to unify.
Ronald Reagan was a president of strength. His philosophy was a philosophy of strength - a strong military a strong economy and strong families.
Academe n.: An ancient school where morality and philosophy were taught. Academy n.: A modern school where football is taught.