PYRRHONISM- An ancient philosophy, named for its inventor. It consisted of an absolute disbelief in everything but Pyrrhonism. Its modern professors have added that.
Stoic Quotes: Timeless Wisdom for a Fulfilling Life - page 34
He in whom the love of repose predominates will accept the first creed, the first philosophy, the first political party he meets — most likely his father's. He gets rest, commodity, and reputation; but he shuts the door of truth.
Saints cannot arise where there have been no warriors, nor philosophers where a prying beast does not remain hidden in the depths.
It's an apathy so absolute that it's like a hole you might fall in.
Lionel Shriver
Those who hope to avoid all failure and misfortune are trying to live in a fairyland; wise people realistically accept failures as a part of life and build philosophies to meet them and make the best of them.
Wilferd Peterson
Nothing can be accomplished by logic and ethics.
The dynamic element in my philosophy, taken as a whole, can be seen as an obstinate and untiring battle against the spirit of abstraction.
Gabriel Marcel
I did Urban Zen for myself, to make clothes for me and my friends, a similar philosophy to when I started Donna Karan. Except this time I hope it will stay that way so that I will be able to support young designers and mentor them.
Donna Karan
WIth both trepidation and relief, I abandoned pragmatism in favor of magnetism.
Tama J. Kieves
Courage is inseparable from love and leads to what may arguably be the noblest of all warrior virtues: selflessness.
Steven Pressfield
I almost became a political journalist, having worked as a reporter at the time of Watergate. The proximity to those events motivated me, when I wound up doing philosophy, to try to use it to move the public debate.
Michael Sandel
We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values.
We cannot bear to regard ourselves simply as playthings of blind chance, we cannot admit to feeling ourselves abandoned.
Ugo Betti
My philosophy is as simple as ever - smoking, drinking, moderate sexual intercourse on a diminishing scale, reading and writing (not arithmetic). I have a selfish absorption in the well-being and achievement of Noel Coward.
Noel Coward
By abstaining from all definite content, whether as formal logic and theory of science or as the legend of Being beyond all beings, philosophy declared its bankruptcy regarding concrete social goals.
Theodor Adorno
If the supply of virtue is insufficient in a free society like America, it is almost nonexistent in an unfree society like Iran's. The reason is that coerced virtues are not virtues at all.
Dinesh D'Souza
If you have to ask for something more than once or twice, it wasn't yours in the first place. And that's hard to accept when you love someone.
Without philosophy, action has no meaning.
Sebastien Foucan
