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The Copernican revolution brought about by Kant was, I think, the most important single turning point in the history of philosophy.

The most attention I get is in a book store or video shop when I go to the foreign film section. Sometimes that can be fun, but usually those women want to talk about philosophy or something very dense. It's not like they're tearing off my shirt, you know.

There is no philosophy without the art of ignoring objections.

We are tainted by modern philosophy which has taught us that all is good, whereas evil has polluted everything and in a very real sense all is evil, since nothing is in its proper place.

It is an acknowledged truth in philosophy that a just theory will always be confirmed by experiment.

The dynamic element in my philosophy, taken as a whole, can be seen as an obstinate and untiring battle against the spirit of abstraction.

Thanks to the high standing which science has for so long attain and to the impartiality of the Nobel Prize Committee, the Nobel Prize for Physics is rightly considered everywhere as the highest reward within the reach of workers in Natural Philosophy.

My personal philosophy would be don't whine, don't let opportunities pass you by, be willing to work hard, and remember that you don't know as much as you think you do, ever.

A philosopher once said, 'Half of good philosophy is good grammar.'

Greek philosophy seems to have met with something with which a good tragedy is not supposed to meet, namely, a dull ending.

Ruby inherited the Perl philosophy of having more than one way to do the same thing. I inherited that philosophy from Larry Wall, who is my hero actually. I want to make Ruby users free. I want to give them the freedom to choose.

Actually, I didn't make the claim that Ruby follows the principle of least surprise. Someone felt the design of Ruby follows that philosophy, so they started saying that. I didn't bring that up, actually.

My philosophy of dating is to just fart right away.

Hard distinctions make bad philosophy.

And so my militant philosophy is this: to make with a brush on canvas is a simple direct delight-to make with the movie is the same.

You always really have to remain consistent in your beliefs and philosophy.

Coaching really is an individual philosophy.

My philosophy about the game, for instance, is that you have players out there who really do different things.

Any genuine philosophy leads to action and from action back again to wonder, to the enduring fact of mystery.

The philosophy of protectionism is a philosophy of war.