There's a difference between a philosophy and a bumper sticker.
All serious conversations gravitate towards philosophy.
The society which scorns excellence in plumbing as a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exalted activity will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy: neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water.
This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.
The philosophy behind much advertising is based on the old observation that every man is really two men - the man he is and the man he wants to be.
I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business.
Academe, n.: An ancient school where morality and philosophy were taught. Academy, n.: A modern school where football is taught.
Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.
The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.
People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind.
I have a simple philosophy: Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. Scratch where it itches.
We live in a world in which politics has replaced philosophy.
The point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as not to seem worth stating, and to end with something so paradoxical that no one will believe it.
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.
There is no need for temples, no need for complicated philosophies. My brain and my heart are my temples; my philosophy is kindness.
Without philosophy man cannot know what he makes; without religion he cannot know why.