#philosophy

Press conferences are good. I have my own philosophy about press conferences. I usually think that when they don't like the movie, they ask about other things. ↗

— Joel Silver

#ask #conferences #good #i #like

That's a central part of philosophy, of ethics. What do I owe to strangers? What do I owe to my family? What is it to live a good life? Those are questions which we face as individuals. ↗

— Peter Singer

#ethics #face #family #good #good life

The war was the end of an era, in art as well. And we were trying to create a new philosophy. ↗

— Douglas Sirk

#create #end #era #new #new philosophy

A big desire is not enough to meet the expectations of lost dreams. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

#dejan-stojanovic #desire #desires #dreams #expectations

Virtue comes through contemplation of the divine, and the exercise of philosophy. But it also comes through public service. The one is incomplete without the other. Power without wisdom is tyranny; wisdom without power is pointless. ↗

— Iain Pears

#philosophy #power #public-service #tyranny #virtue

wherever you find the greatest good, you will find the greatest evil, because evil loves paradise as much as good. ↗

— Wallace Stegner

#good #paradise #philosophy #love

It seems essential to try to find some meaning to life and I guess Jungian philosophy is the one that's helped me understand myself and the world more than anything else. ↗

— Noah Taylor

#else #essential #find #guess #helped

Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy. ↗

— Margaret Thatcher

#created #europe #history #philosophy

Rome should sometimes intervene and say this or that is not in conformity with the Catholic faith. Theologians should understand that. Some theologians go too far, for example, reducing the Catholic faith to a universal philosophy. ↗

— Godfried Danneels

#catholic faith #conformity #example #faith #far

The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things. ↗

— Epictetus

#essence #external #external things #happiness #his