All Quotes

Philosophy is tested and characterised by the way in which it appropriates its history.
‐‐ Karl Jaspers

Philosophy is the highest music.
‐‐ Plato

Philosophy is the product of wonder.
‐‐ Alfred North Whitehead

Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze. But the book cannot be understood unless one first learns to comprehend the language and read the letters in which it is composed.
‐‐ Galileo Galilei

Philosophy, like medicine, has plenty of drugs, few good remedies, and hardly any specific cures.
‐‐ Nicolas Chamfort

Philosophy likes to keen common sense on the run.
‐‐ Mason Cooley

Philosophy means nothing unless it is connected to birth, death, and the continuance of life. Anytime you are going to build a society that works, you have to begin from nature and the body.
‐‐ Susan Griffin

Philosophy, most broadly viewed, is the critical survey of existence from the standpoint of value.
‐‐ Sidney Hook

Philosophy of science without history of science is empty; history of science without philosophy of science is blind.
‐‐ Imre Lakatos

Philosophy: Unintelligible answers to insoluble problems.
‐‐ Henry Adams

Philosophy was once considered science.
‐‐ P. J. O'Rourke

Philosophy wasn't about facts, it was about ideas. My first essay title was something like: 'How can you know what other people are thinking?' I thought, 'Wow, what an amazing thing.' I really thought deeply for the first time.
‐‐ Sophie Kinsella

Philosophy will clip an angel's wings.
‐‐ John Keats

Philosophy would render us entirely Pyrrhonian, were not nature too strong for it.
‐‐ David Hume

Phish and Dave Matthews really know their audiences and really treat them well.
‐‐ Jimmy Buffett

Phish has never had anything to do with any trends at all in America.
‐‐ Jon Fishman

Phish has run its course and that we should end it now while it's still on a high note.
‐‐ Trey Anastasio

Phish is such a good band; they just make stuff up as a jam band.
‐‐ Sharon Jones

Phoebe Wolkind Ephron cracked wise like Dorothy Parker and looked like Katharine Hepburn.
‐‐ Hallie Ephron

Phoenix and Las Vegas have grim long-term prospects. On top of oil-and-gas problems, they will have terrible problems with water and the ability to produce food locally. I suppose it shows how delusional the public is, and how our institutional controls have decayed - for instance, lending standards.
‐‐ James Howard Kunstler

Phone networks can capture life on our planet.
‐‐ Carlo Ratti

Phone phreaking is a type of hacking that allows you to explore the telephone network by exploiting the phone systems and phone company employees.
‐‐ Kevin Mitnick

Phones and soundtracks and Muzak and fountains replace genuine and unpredictable human contact with a seamless soundtrack from a bad movie and a cliche that makes us believe we must all be happy.
‐‐ Margaret Heffernan

Phones rang constantly, as if the White House was conducting some kind of pardon telethon.
‐‐ Barbara Olson

Phones were created as social tools. Smartphones are especially good at being social, integrating text, voice, video and images in an endless number of apps that can serve a user's needs, and all without the need for a web-based social network.
‐‐ Keith Teare

Phones would not be better if they could be cooler looking, if they could weight less, or if they could have more battery. Phones would be better if we didn't have to carry them around.
‐‐ Astro Teller

Photo shoots for underage girls are like letting an ant walk around with honey.
‐‐ Janice Dickinson

Photoaging is the worst. It wreaks havoc.
‐‐ Christie Brinkley

'PhotoCard' has 20 times as much code as the sum of 'QuickDraw,' 'MacPaint,' and 'HyperCard.' It is more elaborate and complicated, with all the client and server stuff. It took a lot more of me to do this than other projects, requiring an almost Mother Teresa dedication to do it.
‐‐ Bill Atkinson

Photograph: a picture painted by the sun without instruction in art.
‐‐ Ambrose Bierce

Photograph the world as it is. Nothing's more interesting than reality.
‐‐ Mary Ellen Mark

Photographer James Nachtwey has spent his professional life in the places people most want to avoid: war zones and refugee camps, the city flattened by an earthquake, the village swallowed by a flood, the farm hollowed out by famine.
‐‐ Nancy Gibbs

Photographers and people do try to take advantage of you. You just have to stand your ground and prove you're not an easy target.
‐‐ Terry Farrell

Photographers and reporters are mostly after me. They want to know what I read and what I'm like and I don't really know myself, so how can I tell them?
‐‐ James Taylor

Photographers deal in things which are continually vanishing and when they have vanished there is no contrivance on earth which can make them come back again.
‐‐ Henri Cartier-Bresson

Photographers have always been each other's biggest fans.
‐‐ Rick Smolan

Photographers have to make the clothes look fantastic; that's why we get paid.
‐‐ Patrick Demarchelier

Photographers must learn not to be ashamed to have their photographs look like photographs.
‐‐ Alfred Stieglitz

Photographers never want to talk about the fact that they may well be in decline. It's the greatest taboo subject of all.
‐‐ Martin Parr

Photographers usually want to photograph facts and things. But I'm interested in the nature of the thing itself. A photograph of someone sleeping tells me nothing about their dream state; a photograph of a corpse tells me nothing about the nature of death. My work is about my life as an event, and I find myself to be very temporal, transient.
‐‐ Duane Michals

Photographic memory is often confused with another bizarre - but real - perceptual phenomenon called eidetic memory, which occurs in between 2 and 15 percent of children and very rarely in adults. An eidetic image is essentially a vivid afterimage that lingers in the mind's eye for up to a few minutes before fading away.
‐‐ Joshua Foer

Photographing a cake can be art.
‐‐ Irving Penn

Photographing friends means that there's a spontaneity to the images. I have a lot of love for my friends and family, and I love taking cool pictures of them.
‐‐ Suki Waterhouse

Photographs are two-dimensional. I work in four dimensions.
‐‐ Tino Sehgal

Photographs aren't accounts of scrutiny. The shutter is open for a fraction of a second.
‐‐ David Hockney

Photographs can reveal something to us, and they can also conceal things.
‐‐ Errol Morris

Photographs speak to me, and I obey.
‐‐ Ruth Bernhard

Photography acts as a teaser, suggesting we can know something that we can never know. And the more we can't obtain it, the more we want it.
‐‐ Alison Jackson

Photography, alone of the arts, seems perfected to serve the desire humans have for a moment - this very moment - to stay.
‐‐ Sam Abell