#phil

My dad had this philosophy that if you tell children they're beautiful and wonderful then they believe it, and they will be. So I never thought I was unattractive. But I was never one of the girls at school who had lots of boyfriends. ↗

— Emily Mortimer

#beautiful #believe #children #dad #had

When Keats says: 'Axioms in philosophy are not axioms until they are proved upon our pulses', what he means is that we don't necessarily believe what a poem is saying if it comes out and tells us in an absolutely head-on, in-your-face way; we only believe it to be true if we feel it to be true. ↗

— Andrew Motion

#axioms #be true #believe #comes #feel

The big hurdle is going out and raising the revenue. There's no doubt about that; it's an uphill battle. ↗

— Terry Porter

#battle #big #doubt #going #hurdle

But just as they did in Philadelphia when they were writing the constitution, sooner or later, you've got to compromise. You've got to start making the compromises that arrive at a consensus and move the country forward. ↗

— Colin Powell

#compromise #compromises #consensus #constitution #country

It is one of the consolations of philosophy that the benefit of showing how to dispense with a concept does not hinge on dispensing with it. ↗

— Willard Van Orman Quine

#concept #consolations #dispense #dispensing #does

I think when I was two years old in the sandbox. I think I formulated my basic philosophy there, and I haven't really had to alter it very much ever since. ↗

— Boyd Rice

#basic #ever #formulated #had #haven

Anyone can grow into something beautiful. ↗

— Vanessa Diffenbaugh

#beauty

I could ask the Phillies to keep me on to add to my statistics, but my love for the game won't let me do that. ↗

— Mike Schmidt

#ask #could #game #i #keep

I play basketball on Sundays and I'm a very spiritual guy; I read a lot of Eastern philosophy and I meditate. ↗

— Garry Shandling

#eastern #guy #i #lot #meditate

Last week, I went to Philadelphia, but it was closed. ↗