Irishmen Philosophy Quotes

We refuse to lie here in dishonor! We are not criminals, but Irishmen! This is the crime of which we stand accused. ~ Bobby Sands

Now it's a war on women; tomorrow it's going to be a war on left-handed Irishmen or something like that. ~ Paul Ryan

I - and there are hundreds of thousands of Irishmen who felt on this subject as I do - have always liked my Celtic countrymen and disliked the English nation; it is a national trait of character, and I cannot help it. ~ Douglas Hyde

For Irishmen, there is no football game to match rugby and if all our young men played rugby not only would we beat England and Wales but France and the whole lot of them put together. ~ Eamon De Valera

Although the Irish language is connected with the many recollections that twine around the hearts of Irishmen, yet the superior utility of the English tongue, as the medium of all modern communication, is so great that I can witness without a sigh the gradual decline of the Irish language. ~ Daniel O'Connell

There's a real mischievousness about Irishmen, don't you find? ~ Natalie Dormer

Every Irishman, the saying goes, has a potato in his head. ~ Augustus Hare

I would never repudiate the fact that I am an Irishman ~ Ian Paisley

Mulligan: invented by an Irishman who wanted to hit one more twenty yard grounder. ~ Jim Bishop

At this point we hated each other as much as it was possible for two Irishmen to do-and that's quite a bit. ~ Kevin Hearne

He was a bloody genius with these people, slicker than any confidence artist, more popular than whisky in a room full of Irishmen. ~ Meredith Duran

In my world, reserved Italians, heterosexual hairdressers, clouds without silver linings, ignoble savages, hard-hearted whores, advantageous ill-winds, sober Irishmen, and so on, are not permitted to exist. ~ Martin Amis

A real Irishman will give everything of himself
except that kernel of his soul which makes him a mystery to other peoples. ~ Jim Tully

Do you know that an Irishman always respond to a question with another?"
And the Irish guy replies "Who told you that? ~ Cathy Kelly

Irishmen are best at the specially hard professions - the trades of iron, the lawyer, and the soldier. ~ G.K. Chesterton

There are only three kinds of Irishmen who can't understand women. Young men, old men and men of middle age. ~ Elizabeth Berg

Scots are Jocks,WelshmenTaffies, and Irishmen Paddies or Micks but?it is noticeable there is no similar designation for the English. ~ Anna Pavlova

sometimes we don't need to think to beleive ~ Zakaria ABALI

There were two Irishmen eating sandwiches in a pub and the landlord said: "You can't eat your own food in here." So they swapped sandwiches. ~ Frank Carson

Killy arched an eyebrow in disbelief. Don't be thinkin' you can deceive this old man. I've been makin' a fool of myself over women since before you were born. ~ Pamela Clare

I am one who fights without a knack of hoping confidentlysimply a Scotch-Irishman who will not be conquered. ~ Woodrow Wilson

Irishmen are not reserved, and the company appeared dying to be intimately acquainted. ~ William Hamilton Maxwell

When one begins to reflect on philosophy - then philosophy seems to us to be everything, like God, and love. It is a mystical, highly potent, penetrating idea - which ceaselessly drives us inward in all directions. The decision to do philosophy - to seek philosophy is the act of self-liberation - the thrust toward ourselves. ~ Novalis

Philosophy reduced, as we have seen, to philosophical discourse develops from this point on in a different atmosphere and environment from that of ancient philosophy. In modern university philosophy, philosophy is obviously no longer a way of life, or a form of life unless it be the form of life of a professor of philosophy. ~ Pierre Hadot

It is a most disgraceful shame the way in which Irishmen are brought up. They are ashamed of their language, institutions, and of everything Irish. ~ Douglas Hyde

What one decides to do in crisis depends on one's philosophy of life, and that philosophy cannot be changed by an incident. If one hasn't any philosophy in crises, others make the decision. ~ Jeannette Rankin

I'd love to go back to school for philosophy. I love philosophy, so I'm always reading philosophy books, annoying my girlfriend with that type of stuff. ~ Parker Young

God loves only one philosophy,
And that is the Do-it-here-now philosophy. ~ Sri Chinmoy

...is not all philosophy but preparation for a serene dying? ~ Gore Vidal

If you want to consume the cream of Christ's philosophy, then don't read the Bible, read Tolstoy. ~ Abhijit Naskar

If philosophy gets you lost in the labyrinth of symbols that distance us from reality, then it is part of the problem; if it motivates positive action that can create a better world, philosophy is usually a gift. ~ Oli Anderson

I agree with the realistic Irishman who said he preferred to prophesy after the event. ~ Gilbert K. Chesterton

This would be a grand land if only every Irishman would kill a negro, and be hanged for it. ~ Edward Augustus Freeman

For philosophy, Socrates, if pursued in moderation and at the proper age, is an elegant accomplishment, but too much philosophy is the ruin of human life. ~ Plato

Every philosophy is the philosophy of some stage of life. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche

Bad philosophy before the Enlightenment was typically of the because-I-say-so variety. When the Enlightenment liberated philosophy and science, they both began to make progress, and increasingly there was good philosophy. But, paradoxically, bad philosophy became worse. ~ David Deutsch

Living honestly is a prerequisite for a clear conscience. ~ Eraldo Banovac

Western philosophy must be discussed; eastern philosophy must be experienced. ~ Adriano Bulla

In my view, we ought to replace the notion of analytic philosophy by that of synthetic philosophy. ~ Philip Kitcher

A transplanted Irishman, German, Englishman is an American in one generation. A transplanted African is not one in five! ~ Barbara Chase-Riboud

There is a continuum between science and philosophy. As Fichte said (but did not practice), philosophy should be the science of sciences. ~ Mario Bunge

Being indifferent is an effective weapon against bossing. ~ Eraldo Banovac

Philosophy's position with regard to science, which at one time could be designated with the name "theory of knowledge," has been undermined by the movement of philosophical thought itself. Philosophy was dislodged from this position by philosophy. ~ Jurgen Habermas

An Irishman needs three things : silence, cunnning, and exile. ~ James Joyce

How much does he lack himself who must have many things? ~ Sen No Rikyu

Philosophy is this amazing technique we've devised for getting reality to answer us back when we're getting it wrong. Science itself can't make those arguments. You actually have to rely on philosophy, on philosophy of science. ~ Rebecca Goldstein

I would say to anybody who thinks that all the problems in philosophy can be translated into empirically verifiable answers - whether it be a Lawrence Krauss thinking that physics is rendering philosophy obsolete or a Sam Harris thinking that neuroscience is rendering moral philosophy obsolete - that it takes an awful lot of philosophy - philosophy of science in the first case, moral philosophy in the second - even to demonstrate the relevance of these empirical sciences. ~ Rebecca Goldstein

Philosophy ought to question the basic assumptions of the age. Thinking through, critically and carefully, what most of us take for granted is, I believe, the chief task of philosophy, and the task that makes philosophy a worthwhile activity. ~ Peter Singer

In point of fact, Western philosophy has never set itself free of Christianity: wherever Christianity did not have a hand in the construction of modern philosophy it served instead as a stumbling block. ~ Jacques Maritain

That's why I love philosophy: no one wins. ~ D.T. Suzuki

Philosophy lets you imagine the infinity, and Science makes you get there. ~ Abhijit Naskar

The philosophy of hedonism means little to lovers of pleasure. They have no inclination to read philosophy, or to write it. ~ Mason Cooley

Trying to make everyone happy is equally illusionary as drilling holes in the water. ~ Eraldo Banovac

Alas! the culture of an Irishman is an enterprise to be undertaken with a sort of moral bog hoe. ~ Henry David Thoreau

The Irishman sustains himself during brief periods of joy by the knowledge that tragedy is just around the corner. ~ W.B.Yeats

Your Philosophy of life shapes you more than anything else ~ Tony Robbins

Examination of its own history and of the forms of thought given the name "philosophy" indicates that "philosophy" has itself borne many fundamentally different meanings through the years, and from one school or movement to another. ~ Gregory B. Sadler

If you want to understand God, then look no further than in the mirror at your home. ~ Abhijit Naskar

What's in a view? A world, by any other, would remain just as it is, just as wonderful :-) ~ Abhimanyu Jha

Philosophy can bake no bread; but she can procure for us God , Freedom , Immortality. Which, then, is more practical, Philosophy or Economy ? ~ Novalis

My mind was formed by studying philosophy, Plato and that sort of thing. ~ Werner Heisenberg

If your philosophy can be explained in a tweet, you're a moron. That's my philosophy.

Wait... ~ T.J. Kirk

Your personal philosophy is the greatest determining factor in how your life works out. ~ Jim Rohn

The legacy of Greece to Western philosophy is Western philosophy. ~ Bertrand Russell

Ancient philosophy proposed to mankind an art of living. By contrast, modern philosophy appears above all as the construction of a technical jargon reserved for specialists. ~ Pierre Hadot

Contemporary philosophy illustrates Hegel's dictum that philosophy is its own time apprehended in thought, for in our age philosophy yields to the objectifying technical impulse and loses its ancient task of pursuing the Socratic ideal of the wisdom of the examined life. ~ Donald Phillip Verene

Nanny's philosophy of life was to do what seemed like a good idea at the time, and do it as hard as possible. It had never let her down. ~ Terry Pratchett

Your philosophy determines whether you will go for the disciplines or continue the errors. ~ Jim Rohn

Each stage of your life
is like petals of a flower...
unfolding and opening until it comes to full bloom...You will blossom and then you die...But know that this is not your ending. ~ Summerlyn Guthrie

The ductless glands secrete among other things our moods, our aspirations, our philosophy of life. ~ Aldous Huxley

It's often said that "the Irish built America. The truth is, not only did they build it, they also manufactured, repaired, and cleaned it, especially in the decades before and after the potato famine. ~ Rashers Tierney

Those who help promptly help the most. ~ Eraldo Banovac

A driver had been sent to meet us. He was gray-haired, short, and nimble and introduced himself. I am Patrick and so is every fourth man in Ireland, and the ones in between are named Sean or Mick or Finn, and I'll be driving you. ~ Sharon Creech

Philosophy cannot be taught. Philosophy is the union of all acquired knowledge and the genius that applies it: philosophy is the shining cloud upon which Christ set His foot to go up into heaven. ~ Alexandre Dumas

A fool is someone who wants you to apologise for your intelligence
-rassool jibraeel snyman ~ Rassool Jibraeel Snyman

I have presented principles of philosophy that are not, however, philosophical but strictly mathematical-that is, those on which the study of philosophy can be based. These principles are the laws and conditions of motions and of forces, which especially relate to philosophy. ~ Isaac Newton

Can one understand politics without understanding history, especially the history of political thought, and will this distinguish political philosophy from some other kinds of philosophy (such as, perhaps, logic) to which the study of history is not integral? ~ Raymond Geuss

Bader's philosophy was my philosophy. His whole attitude to life was mine. ~ Kenneth More

Philosophy is a corrective against sadness. Yet there still are people who believe in the profundity of philosophy! ~ Emil Cioran

You cannot write your character until you know how he or she thinks, until you know what their philosophy is in the world that they occupy. ~ Don Roff

My relationship with Barack Obama isn't based on my political philosophy or his. ~ Tom Coburn

Religion and philosophy, philosophy and religion - they're two words which are both ... different. In spelling. ~ Eddie Izzard

What captivity has been to the Jews, exile has been to the Irish. For us, the romance of our native land begins only after we have left home; it is really only with other people that we become Irishmen. ~ Peter Ackroyd

In practice people who study philosophy too long become very odd birds, not to say thoroughly vicious; while even those who are the best of them are reduced by ... [philosophy] to complete uselessness as members of society. ~ Plato

Every philosophy is a foreground philosophy - that is a hermit's judgment: "There is something arbitrary in his stopping here to look back and look around, in his not digging deeper here but laying his spade aside; there is also something suspicious about it." Every philosophy also conceals a philosophy; every opinion is also a hideout, every word also a mask. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche

Art requires philosophy, just as philosophy requires art. Otherwise, what would become of beauty? ~ Paul Gauguin

The philosophy to 'buy and hold' is a philosophy that I use to manage funds. ~ Michael Lee-Chin

There's no longer a monolithic evil empire somewhere, spreading a different philosophy of life. That doesn't exist. ~ Seth Gordon

Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language. ~ Ludwig Wittgenstein

If this is philosophy it is at any rate a philosophy that is not in its right mind. ~ Georg C. Lichtenberg

Blind faith is not real religion my friend. ~ Abhijit Naskar

It is very disappointing that there are many people willing to do everything to live comfortably except to work hard. ~ Eraldo Banovac

Nationalism must now be added to the refuse pile of superstitions. We are now citizens of the world, and the man who divides the race into elect Irishmen and reprobate foreign devils (especially Englishmen) had better live on the Blaskets where he can admire himself without disturbance. ~ George Bernard Shaw

My life is my philosophy. I don't want to explain my philosophy but my life will explain it the best. ~ Debasish Mridha

Since philosophy now criticizes everything it comes across, a critique of philosophy would be nothing less than a just reprisal. ~ Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

I not only believe in universal morality, but in more than one of them ~ Gregory B. Sadler

A person without a philosophy for living is at the tender mercy of other people. ~ Kilroy J. Oldster

Philosophy is the science of estimating values. The superiority of any state or substance over another is determined by philosophy. By assigning a position of primary importance to what remains when all that is secondary has been removed, philosophy thus becomes the true index of priority or emphasis in the realm of speculative thought. ~ Manly Hall

Philosophy is regarded by many as inseparable from speculation ... Philosophy has proceeded from speculation to science. ~ Hans Reichenbach

Tell me what gives a man or woman their greatest pleasure and I'll tell you their philosophy of life. ~ Dale Carnegie