Stoic Quotes: Timeless Wisdom for a Fulfilling Life - page 27
There is no part of the whole course of our Saviour Christ's life or death, but it is well worthy our looking on; and from each part in it there goeth virtue to do us good.
Lancelot Andrewes
There are no free lunches in philosophy any more than in real life.
Jaegwon Kim
It's very hard to operate on a general philosophy of power. They say that power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely, but I don't agree with that. I think you have to be corrupted to be corrupted by power.
Mark Pellegrino
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I see philosophy as a fairly abstract activity, as concerned mainly with the analysis of criticism and concepts, and of course most usefully of scientific concepts.
A.J. Ayer
Our philosophy is about reaching back to move forward. We have something different to say with a sensibility that is both old and new.
John Varvatos
The American work ethic is something to be admired. Our workforce, regardless of position, works hard to produce the best product and serve customers to the best of their ability.
Leonard Boswell
The point of civilization is to be civilized; the purpose of action is to perpetuate society, for only in society can philosophy truly take place.
Iain Pears
In my reading of philosophy, I saw that there were innumerable problems that nobody was giving answers for. the Bible, it struck me, dealt with man's problems in a sweeping, all-encompassing thrust.
Francis Schaeffer
To know your faults and be able to change is the greatest virtue.
The ethics of excellence are grounded in action - what you actually do, rather than what you say you believe. Talk, as the saying goes, is cheap.
Price Pritchett
Individualism has really the higher aim. Modern morality consists in accepting the standard of one's age.
Some are born great. Some achieve greatness. Some get it as a graduation gift.
Robin Williams
Pretend what we may, the whole man within us is at work when we form our philosophical opinions.
No literature is sound, no philosophy of action workable, if it doesn't take a hard look at itself.
John W. Campbell
Friendship is given us by nature, not to favor vice, but to aid virtue.
I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.
There is in each of us a stream of tendency, whether you choose to call it philosophy or not, which gives coherence and direction to thought and action. Judges cannot escape that current any more than other mortals.
Benjamin Cardozo
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What generates war is the economic philosophy of nationalism: embargoes, trade and foreign exchange controls, monetary devaluation, etc. The philosophy of protectionism is a philosophy of war.
As far as I know, there is no proof whatever of the existence of an objective reality apart from our senses, and I do not see why we should accept the outside world as such solely by virtue of our senses.
M. C. Escher
