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The only thing Martha and I have in common is that we both used to model. Martha Stewart is extremely talented. Her designs are picture perfect. Our philosophy is life is messy, and rather than being afraid of those messes we design products that work the way we live.

Women are all the same; we want to be smaller in the waist, longer legs, slimmer. I design for women and their defects, to make them better.

Italy is full of historical buildings. And Europe holds a great history of philosophy from Greece until today. I read all those books and see these buildings, and I think of where I stand when I design my architecture.

Plato's philosophy is a dignified preface to future religion.

Design is not for philosophy it's for life.

To do all that one is able to do, is to be a man; to do all that one would like to do, is to be a god.

Rightly defined philosophy is simply the love of wisdom.

William James was not a prophet. He was a philosopher whose philosophy reflected his profound humanity.

When you design a building, you start from a general philosophy, and you come down, and you start from detail and come up. Only the theoretical architect believes that you can make the concept and then sometime, somebody will come to build it.

The other aspect of idealism is the one which gives us our notion of the absolute Self. To it the first is only preparatory. This second aspect is the one which from Kant, until the present time, has formed the deeper problem of thought.

Martha Stewart is extremely talented. Her designs are picture perfect. Our philosophy is life is messy, and rather than being afraid of those messes we design products that work the way we live.

Strive for perfection … Take the best that exists and make it better. When it does not exist, design it.

All history is man's efforts to realize ideals.

They [philosophers] conceive of men, not as they are, but as they themselves would like them to be

Utopias are presented for our inspection as a critique of the human state.

I want to study philosophy. That fascinates me.

My design philosophy is to make women feel like peacocks.

Porsche's and Apple's design philosophies are similar. Much like the 356, the original iPhone was about defining a foundation for the future.

The act of philosophizing involves the character of the philosopher.

A man perfect to the finger tips.

I don't really play overseas stuff. I'm a bit of a dinosaur in that way. You gonna improve on a Les Paul or Fender Stratocaster? Those are perfect designs, and there is nothing to add really.

A man cannot be wise enough to be a great artist without being wise enough to wish to be a philosopher.

I like what I do. Some writers have said in print that they hated writing and it was just a chore and a burden. I certainly don't feel that way about it. Sometimes it's difficult. You know, you always have this image of the perfect thing which you can never achieve, but which you never stop trying to achieve. But I think ... that's your signpost and your guide. You'll never get there, but without it you won't get anywhere.

The ideal of perfect Success is an ideal belonging to the same sort of individual as the inventor of Equal Rights of man and Perfectibility.

Philosophy is "an unusually stubborn attempt to think clearly.