#philosophy

Ronald Reagan was a president of strength. His philosophy was a philosophy of strength - a strong military, a strong economy and strong families. ↗

— Mitt Romney

#families #his #military #philosophy #president

Yeah, but in the end his followers take what they want from his philosophy. Maybe it doesn't matter what's going on in David Icke's mind. It's how other people take him. ↗

— Jon Ronson

#end #followers #going #him #his

Philosophy is the product of wonder. ↗

— Alfred North Whitehead

#product #wonder

It's a kind of philosophy of my own life, to create the energy enough to keep on going. ↗

— Ernie Banks

#energy #enough #going #keep #kind

Drama is action, sir, action and not confounded philosophy. ↗

— Luigi Pirandello

#confounded #drama #philosophy #sir

My philosophy in all my jobs at McDonald's is to be honest and say what I think and mean what I say. ↗

— Charlie Bell

#i #i think #jobs #mcdonald #mean

The terrible error in the course of human civilization is undoubtedly the defective judgment that allowed religious authorities usurp the foundation of societal morality, in which all collective ethics of humankind must take a cause. This appalling blunder is comparable only to assigning the leper exclusive franchise to run beauty clinics in the society; this can only lead to cycles upon cycles of common infection syndrome. ↗

— Adebowale Ojowuro

#ethics-and-moral-philosophy #freethought #new-book #religion #scepticism

It does not follow, because our ancestors made so many errors of fact and mixed them with their religion, that we should therefore leave off being religious at all. By being religious we establish ourselves in possession of ultimate reality at the only points at which reality is given us to guard. Our responsible concern is with our private destiny, after all. ↗

— William James

#religion #spirituality #experience

Before I joined the project most of the English people with whom I had made personal contacts were left wing and affected to some degree or other by the same kind of philosophy. ↗

— Klaus Fuchs

#before #contacts #degree #english #english people

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. ↗

— John Kenneth Galbraith

#conservative #engaged #exercises #justification #man