"College totally changed my life. It changed what I believe and what I think about everything. I majored in philosophy."
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"I do not care what philosophy you take up; only I am ready to prove here that throughout the whole of India, there runs a mutual and cordial string of eternal faith in the perfection of humanity, and I believe in it myself. And let that faith be spread over the whole land."
"Philosophy insists that there is a joy which is absolute, which never changes."
"A map is the dead body of where you've been. A map is the unborn baby of where you're going. There are no maps. Maps are pictures of what isn't."
"The thing I've been talking about with daughter is the idea of - and I'm talking about essentially in America - the possibility of, a lost generation. I've been listening to a lot of music - as a fan, as a critic, as somebody who likes to dance - but I hear, you know, within these songs and half the people I hear, these philosophies encoded and embedded in these songs."
"All we know of science or of religion comes from philosophy. It lies behind and above all other knowledge we have or use."
"According to Nietzche," said a sharp new voice, making them all jump, "philosophy is the biography of the philosopher."
"There is space in its philosophy for everyone which is one reason why India is a home to every single religion in the world."
"It's easy to confuse a woman for a philosophy"
"I've done a few remakes now, as you know. And my philosophy is, you see the original film once, and that's it. You have to do whatever you can to shut it out, because you don't want your performance to be tainted. You don't want to fall into the trap of comparisons, basically."
"You only see what your eyes want to see. How can life be what you want it to be?"
"They're only words, unless they're true."
"I know where beauty lives, I've seen it once, I know the warmth she gives."
"Freedom comes when you learn to let go, creation comes when you learn to say 'no'"
"The world is not so kind, people trap your mind."
"Never forget who you are, little star."
"I'm not sorry, it's human nature."
"All our philosophy is as dry as dust if it is not immediately translated into some act of living service."
"I still somehow or other fancy that "my philosophy" represents the true meaning of the teaching of the Gita."
"He does not struggle with anyone - thus no one can vanquish him."