#phil

When I came back to California in the early '60s I was hanging out with Jimmy Bowen, Phil Spector, and I wanted to be a record producer and work with other artists. ↗

— Johnny Rivers

#back #california #came #early #hanging

My philosophy is, don't take no for an answer and be willing to sacrifice your entire project for freedom. ↗

— Tim Robbins

#entire #freedom #philosophy #project #sacrifice

The past has no power over the present moment. ↗

— Eckhart Tolle

#inspirational #life #philosophy #truth #wisdom

I know no subject more elevating, more amazing, more ready to the poetical enthusiasm, the philosophical reflection, and the moral sentiment than the works of nature. Where can we meet such variety, such beauty, such magnificence? ↗

— James Thomson

#beauty #elevating #enthusiasm #i #know

Nothing seems to me more doubtful than Aristotle's remark that it is probable the arts and philosophy have several times been discovered and several times lost. ↗

— Julien Benda

#arts #been #discovered #doubtful #lost

The philosopher creates, he doesn't reflect. ↗

— Gilles Deleuze

#philosopher #reflect

Les hommes construisent trop de murs et pas assez de ponts. ↗

— Isaac Newton

#philosophy #men

For scholars and laymen alike it is not philosophy but active experience in mathematics itself that can alone answer the question: What is mathematics? ↗

— Richard Courant

#alike #alone #answer #experience #itself

Das Spiel ist der Inbegriff demokratischer Lebensart. Es ist die letzt uns verbliebene Seinsform. Der Spieltrieb ersetzt die Religiosität, beherrscht die Börse, die Politik, die Gerichtssäle, die Pressewelt, und er ist es, der uns seit Gottes Tod mental am Leben hält. ↗

— Juli Zeh

#game-theory #philosophy #religion #religion

The philosopher proves that the philosopher exists. The poet merely enjoys existence. ↗

— Wallace Stevens

#existence #exists #merely #philosopher #poet